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Members
CHIN’s members include more than 1300 heritage institutions of all kinds from across Canada. Search below by organization title or location to find the CHIN-member heritage institution you're looking for.
University of Saskatchewan Museum of Antiquities
University of Saskatchewan Museum of Antiquities
Full-scale replicas of ancient Greek, Roman and Medieval sculpture and inscriptions; replica and original coins of Greece and Rome
Hayward China Museum
Hayward China Museum
Hayward Fine China Museum
The Hayward Fine China Museum exhibits showcase Hayward & Warwick's prominent role in this long established Saint John industry. Hayward & Warwick is the oldest family owned business in Saint John.
The museum, located in their retail store at 85 Princess Street, will highlight the story of the manufacturing and retailing of earthenware, housewares and fine china from 1785 to present. William Warwick started his business on Prince William Street in 1853 and in 1855 sold his china and glassware business to his nephew W.H. Hayward. The families retained a business relationship until the 1920s.
The museum will also exhibit souvenir china, designed specifically for the tourist market at the turn of the 20th century. Hayward & Warwick plan to capitalize on the growing cruise ship market by attracting those passengers with an interest in collecting china, one of North America's top hobbies.
An interesting component of the exhibit will show the different shipping modes in which china was shipped to Saint John. This includes a straw-filled woven ash crate, a hogshead barrel, to the insulated cardboard boxes of today. China stored in native-made baskets will hang from the ceiling, as it was less than three decades ago.
The museum will also highlight the story of the Foley Pottery, which has its roots with William Warwick's Courtenay Bay pottery. In 1964 the pottery relocated to Labelle, Quebec where it continued as the Canuk Pottery. Many will remember Fen Foley's pottery in his home on Bayside Drive.
Beaton Institute/Cape Breton University
Beaton Institute/Cape Breton University
Manuscripts
St. George's Heritage Museum
St. George's Heritage Museum
SGHM is located in the 127 year old St. George's Church Building, overlooking the historic community of Brigus. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, St. George's has a strongly framed, open-timberwork ceiling and elaborate stained glass windows. The Museum, which contains many religious artifacts covering the churches history is housed in St. George's. This old church is also the site of local theatrical and musical performances.
Centre d'interprétation et de recherche philatélique du Canada
Centre d'interprétation et de recherche philatélique du Canada
Fondé en 1988, le CIRPC est un centre de recherche sur le timbre canadien disposant de collections et d'artefacts reliés à la philatélie. Son mandat vise la conservation, la diffusion et l'éducation de ses collections .
Heritage Farm & Village
Heritage Farm & Village
The Saskatchewan Western Development Museum of social and economic history for the province of Saskatchewan, it is a network of four exhibit branches in the cities of Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Saskatoon, Yorkton, with a curatorial centre in Saskatoon; the WDM at North Battleford tells the Story of Agriculture at its Heritage Farm & Village
Museum Strathroy-Caradoc
Museum Strathroy-Caradoc
Museum Strathroy-Caradoc has relocated to the downtown core of Strathroy - after over 34 years in its former location on Oxford Street - to better serve the needs and interests of the Strathroy-Caradoc community. This exciting redevelopment project has involved both new construction and renovations to integrate the Museum with the Strathroy Public Library and Art Gallery at 34 Frank Street, Strathroy.
The Museum gallery features rotating exhibitions from the museum collection, as well as visiting exhibitions from Museums accross the country. Opening in Febraury of 2007, the new Museum Strathroy-Caradoc promises to be an engaging, ever-changing adventure into the past, present and future!
Muséocabinet
Muséocabinet
Le Muséocabinet est né d'une fusion entre santé et culture. Pour mettre en valeur un exemplaire rare du patrimoine architectural du milieu du 20e siècle, on installe en 2001 le cabinet d'un médecin de famille dans un espace de diffusion culturelle. La résidence, sise à l'entrée du domaine Parent à Saint-Jérôme, s'ouvre sur rendez-vous aux patients-visiteurs qui y consultent un professionnel de la santé tout en bénéficiant des expositions qui s'y trouvent. On y interprète des sujets relatifs au bâtiment lui-même, son histoire, son quartier, le mode de vie de ses contemporains ou on y installe des oeuvres sélectionnées parmi le riche patrimoine artistique du siècle, disponibles dans le réseau muséal. À l'extérieur, les lignes épurées de la construction érigée en 1959-1960 épousent la pente du terrain et rappellent l'esprit de l'oeuvre architecturale de Frank Lloyd Wright. Trois générations d'une même famille y résidèrent simultanément durant quarante ans, préfigurant l'engouement d'aujourd'hui pour la maison «intergénérationnelle». Cuisine au design d'origine intact, objets des années 1950 et 1960 ainsi que photographies et films s'échelonnant sur ces décennies composent en partie les collections conservées au Muséocabinet.
Niagara Historical Museum
Niagara Historical Museum
20,000 artifacts late 18th century to early 19th century
Centre socioculturel Manoir Le Boutillier inc.
Centre socioculturel Manoir Le Boutillier inc.
Le Manoir Le Boutillier est un Lieu historiique national du canada et un Monument historique classé.Le propriétaire M. John Le Boutillier a monté un empire dans le commerce de la morue salée-séchée, construite dans les années 1850-1860, elle a été à la fois poste de pêche, résidence du gérant, magasin général et demeure des engagés. Présentement elle est un lieu d'interprétation de cette histoire.
Sturgeon River House Museum
Sturgeon River House Museum
Reconstructed on the site of the original Hudson's Bay fur-trading post; artifacts relating to the fur-trade and development of the area; blacksmith shop; tuck shop
Debert Military Museum
Debert Military Museum
The Museum is run by the Debert Military History Society.
It is committed to preserving the history of the Military presence at Debert Nova Scotia.
The Debert base which was opened at the beginning of WWII and closed in 1996 served a number of functions during its life span.
It was a Commonwealth Air Training Base, a Debarkation base, a Communication Base, a Medical Depot and the site of a Cold War Diefenbunker.
Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum
Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum
Cheese-making artifacts and equipment; agricultural machinery; blacksmith's forge and equipment; Sports Hall of Fame memorabilia honouring local athletes, including Miss Canada IV speedboat; artifacts related to Ingersoll's history
L.M. Montgomery Lower Bedeque School
L.M. Montgomery Lower Bedeque School
Argenteuil Regional Museum
Argenteuil Regional Museum
Located in the historic village of Carillon, where the portage begins, the Argenteuil Regional Museum uses artifacts and stories to interpret the experiences of life in Argenteuil County and region.
Discover the many historical ressources of the 1682 Seigneury of Argenteuil, named after a region of France. Follow the Lower Ottawa River to Argenteuil County and the Lower aurentian region, home to our museum and treasures of past.
Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum
Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum is a 32 acre site containing 3 differently unique baseball fields, a one-of-a-kind museum and walking trails.
St. Catharines and Area Arts Council
St. Catharines and Area Arts Council
The St. Catharines and Area Arts Council works to enhance the cultural life of Niagara and to promote the social and economic value of the arts
Statement of Values
Canadian Air & Space Museum
Canadian Air & Space Museum
The Canadian Air and Space Museum (CASM)is a non-profit charitable society dedicated to developing an educational, heritage and tourist attraction at Downsview Airport in Toronto.
In its unique and authentic historical setting, the Museum celebrates the aerospace accomplishments of Canadians and the Greater Toronto Area's long association with aerospace innovation and technology.
Art Gallery of Alberta
Art Gallery of Alberta
As the province's leading institution for contemporary and historical art, the Art Gallery of Alberta boasts an impressive permanent collection of over 7000 works. From classical to contemporary periods, the extensive curatorial program introduces local, national and international audiences to a diverse scope of artistic trends. In 2009, Randal Stout's winning design for the new Gallery will re-open at Churchill Square as an 80,000 square-foot state-of-the-art facility for international, Canadian and Aboriginal art, education and scholarship. In the meantime, our interim location is in the historic Bay Building at Enterprise Square in the heart of downtown Edmonton.
Surrey Museum
Surrey Museum
Local history; First Nations archaeological and ethnographic material; civic records, historic photographs, maps, community association records, historic farm, weaving centre, textile and reference collection
Science World British Columbia
Science World British Columbia
Working models which demonstrate scientific principles and concepts
South Central Museum Association
South Central Museum Association
First organized in 1979 the South Central Museum Association is a network of regional museums under the umbrella of the Museums Association of Saskatchewan. There are eleven members, all of which operate museums. The purpose of the association is to encourage regional communication and promotion of the museums and their themes as well as to improve the standards of the museums through educational programs.
Musée Laurier
Musée Laurier
Résidence de Sir et Lady Laurier (1877-1921); collection permanente des meubles des Laurier
Fishermen's Museum
Fishermen's Museum
Items pertaining to fisheries; ship models such as a miniature fishing flake; engines; photographs; logbooks from lighthouse (1902) containing accounts of local shipwrecks
Arnprior and District Museum
Arnprior and District Museum
The Arnprior and District Museum is housed in the former Post Office, now a Town land mark. The Museum opened in 1967 as part of the Town of Arnprior's Centennial project. It houses Native artefacts from Arnprior and its surrounding areas from as as early as 0 A.D. with exhibits looking at the infamous Archibald McNab, last Laird of the McNab Clan who imported settlers from Arnprior in Scotland in the 1820's to the lumbering Industry operatated by Alexander McDonnell, Daniel McLachlin and the Gillies Family. Along with lumbering equipment, photographs, 19th century fashipn and furnishings the Museum also houses a 1923 Fire Engine and an early 20th century General Store.
Veterans Memorial Military Museum
Veterans Memorial Military Museum
The only Free-Standing Military Museum in Alantic Canada. The Museum includes some fine displays of Weaponry, Clothing as well as interpretive displays of some of the main battles fought by Canadian Forces, from the Boer War to the Korean Conflict.
Cobalt Northern Ontario Mining Museum
Cobalt Northern Ontario Mining Museum
One of the world's largest displays of native silver ore. Unique collection of mining and prospecting equipment and artifacts. Displays and exhibits highlighting the social and cultural life of the Cobalt Camp in early 1900's. Flourescent rock display. Heritage Silver Trail Tours. Silver jewellery hand-crafted at the museum.
Musée de l'Éducation
Musée de l'Éducation
Le Musée de l'Éducation (MNE) au sein de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) a comme principale mission la sauvegarde et la collecte du patrimoine éducatif et scolaire du Québec et du Canada. Le MNE vise à mettre à disposition et diffuser l'ensemble de ses ressources documentaires afin de permettre une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de l'histoire de l'éducation. Le MNE collabore avec plusieurs associations du domaine de la culture et de l'éducation. En plus de ses nombreux collaborateurs nationaux, le MNE a récemment amorcé une coopération internationale avec le Musée national de l'Éducation au sein de l'institut national de recherche pédagogique (INRP) en France.
Grist Mill at Keremeos
Grist Mill at Keremeos
1877 grist mill with original log building and equipment restored to operating condition; rare original machinery driven by 12-foot waterwheel; exhibits housed in 1877 general store building feature hands-on displays about mills and milling; heritage gardens throughout the site include wheat plots, vegetables and flowers, illustrating local agricultural history with original varieties; tea room serves fresh-baked goodies
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
Loyalist, Victorian; restored home of Sir Leonard Tilley, Father of Confederation; period rooms and museum displays reflecting local history
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