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Muskoka Lakes Museum - Port Carling
The history of the Muskoka Lakes area is depicted at this community museum. The site explores the local boat-building and water transportation industries and the development of...
Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre - Fort Frances
Includes a vast collection of photographs and artifacts related to the history of the city and the Rainy River District.
Bell Homestead National Historic Site - Brantford
Located on the bluffs overlooking the Grand River, the Bell family's first Canadian home provided the stage for the invention of the telephone. Here, July 26th, 1874,...
Mewinzha: First Nations Gallery - Fort Erie
Uncover thousands of years of human history in Fort Erie. This exhibit features archaeological artifacts recovered from the Peace Bridge Site alongside contemporary First...
The Theatre Museum Canada - Toronto
To collect and preserve artifacts to illustrate, interpret and make known the history of theatre in Canada.
Ska-Nah-Doht Village and Museum - Mount Brydges
Located in 155 acres of Longwoods Road Conservation Area, this site features an artifact collection drawn from local archaeological excavations of the pre-contact period from 800...
Miller Museum of Geology - Kingston
This natural science museum features an international mineral collection which dates from the 1890s to the present. The museum offers earth science educational programs for school...
Elgin County Railway Museum - St. Thomas
To preserve, teach, and display to the public the rich heritage of the railroads and their role in the development of St. Thomas and Elgin County.
Osgoode Hall (The Law Society of Ontario) - Toronto
Osgoode Hall, a National Historic Site of Canada, is one of the oldest buildings in Toronto and a hub of legal life in Ontario. The building houses the Court of Appeal for Ontario...
Wilson P. MacDonald Memorial School Museum - Selkirk
This community museum is dedicated to preserving the history of rural education, the heritage of the surrounding community and the memory of poet Wilson Pugsley MacDonald. The...
Woodstock Museum N.H.S. - Woodstock
This community museum is housed in the nationally designated 1853 Old Town Hall, featuring a restored council chamber and 1889 concert hall. Changing exhibition programs highlight...
Royal Military College and Fort Frederick - Kingston
Housed in the 1846 Fort Frederick Martello Tower, this museum features displays relating to the military history of the site, which was a naval dockyard and garrison between 1789...
Museum of Ontario Archaeology - London
The Museum of Ontario Archaeology features a museum, collections repository, park grounds, and the Lawson archaeological site - an ancient Indigenous village settlement dating to...
Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum - Kitchener
Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum is the largest community museum complex in Ontario, encompassing a museum, heritage village, hall of fame, and curatorial centre. We are open...
The Canada Council Art Bank - Ottawa
The Âjagemô space at the Canada Council for the Arts features performances, events and exhibitions of contemporary Canadian art, including work from the collection of the ...
Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site - Leaskdale
Our museum site consists of the National Leaskdale Manse where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, lived and wrote for 15 years from 1911 to 1926. Here she wrote...
Watson's Mill - Manotick
Built in 1860, this historic stone grist mill is still operational. Located on the Rideau River near Ottawa, the water-powered machinery is used to make stone-ground flour. Daily...
Port Dover Harbour Museum - Port Dover
"If there were an award for the best small-town museum in Canada, this would surely be a candidate. It's crammed with artifacts from Great Lakes shipping, and has...
Joseph Brant Museum - Burlington
Joseph Brant Museum is Burlington’s community museum. With the replica of the original homestead of Joseph Brant ‘Thayendanegea’ (1742-1807), serving as a...
Chatham-Kent Museum - Chatham
For over 60 years, the Chatham-Kent Museum has been selectively acquiring artifacts of local and national significance. Through exhibitions, public programs, educational tours,...
Thousand Islands Boat Museum - Gananoque
Located on the waterfront in Gananoque, Ontario, The Thousand Islands Boat Museum (TIBM) is a hands-on Museum where history becomes something that can be touched, built and...
Georgina Military Museum - Keswick
The Georgina Military Museum is a non-profit, community-based organization which serves to provide school tours and the general public with a rich and highly textured multi-...
Toronto Harbour Commission Archives - Toronto
Toronto's waterfront development is documented in this archives by Toronto Harbour Commissioners' board minutes, correspondence, legal and financial papers, central...
Fort William Historical Park - Thunder Bay
Using 42 reconstructed historical structures, a native camp and a farm, this living history site explores the development of the North West Company and Canada's fur trade. The...
Heritage House Museum - Smiths Falls
This classically styled Victorian home on the lower level depicts the lifestyle of a prominent mill owner's family living in Smiths Falls in the 1860s. Situated on a...