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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'exposition d'Amos
Centre d'exposition d'Amos
Le Centre d'exposition d'Amos est principalement voué à la diffusion de l'art actuel. Il accueille des projets d'exposition en provenance d'artistes québécois. De façon ponctuelle, il accueille aussi des expositions portant sur l'art traditionnel, les sciences et l'histoire. Il possède de plus une exposition permanente de type interactif qui traite de l'histoire de l'art, de la préhistoire à nos jours, intitulée POUR TOUT L'ART DU MONDE. Cette exposition sert avant tout les intérêts du service d'éducation du Centre d'exposition.
Gabriola Museum
Gabriola Museum
This small, volunteer-run, community museum tells the story of Gabriola Island in the Strait of Georgia, from the ice age to recent European settlement.
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
Missisquoi Museum
Missisquoi Museum
Permanent collection housed in three buildings. Museum Annex features agricultural and transportation artifacts; Hodge's General Store displays merchandise from the WWII era; Cornell Mill (1830) features artifacts of the United Empire Loyalists; Fenian Raids 1866 and 1870; cottage furniture made by Lambkin Brothers; Wyatt Easton portraits; clothing, textiles and household furnishings of mid- to late-19th century Missisquoi County; and the folk art "Millard Circus Train" (1920); archives: documents, manuscripts, census records, church records, maps and photographs pertaining to Missisquoi County
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
The former Lower Bedeque School is valued as a well preserved representation of a rural school house in PEI in the late 19th Century and for its association with the famed author, Lucy Maud Montgomery, who taught at the school in 1896-97.
The First Lower Bedeque School was built in 1840. In 1874, due to a dispute among the school board members it was torn down and stolen away in the dead of the night. Some of the board members wanted the school replaced and some did not. Legend says that pieces of the school are still hidden in local barns to this day. The present structure was built in the late 1800's.
The school was operational until 1961, when the consolidation of schools meant it was no longer needed. The structure gradually fell into decay from disuse until the 1980s when a local heritage preservation group, the Friends of Lucy Maud Montgomery School in Lower Bedeque, formed. With the assistance of volunteers, government funds, and donations of artifacts, the plan to restore the building began in 1989.
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.
Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum
Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum
Located in Centreville, Nova Scotia, the Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum houses and displays the sculptures, paintings, and hooked rugs produced by Charles Macdonald and his wife, Mabel. The house was the residence of the Macdonalds and prior to that was Charles' concrete brick factory which he operated according to his socialist views on labour and democracy.
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.
Carleton University Art Gallery
Carleton University Art Gallery
Canadian paintings, drawings, prints; Tyler-Brooks collection of Inuit art, European prints
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 Régional des Mines de Malartic
Musée Régional des Mines de Malartic
Le Musée présente sous un même toit et en parfaite symbiose les dernières applications de la technologie moderne dans l'utilisation des produits minéralogiques et des échantillons étonnants de pièces de collections aussi vieilles que la planète Terre elle-même
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Public art gallery specializing in the exhibition and collecting of First Nations Art
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.
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Canadian Museum of Civilization
La Grande Galerie : L'exposition permanente de la Grande Galerie est consacrée au riche patrimoine culturel et à l'art monumental des Premières Nations de la côte ouest du Canada. On y a recréé l'atmosphère d'un village amérindien en bordure des forêts du pacifique, avec six maisons et des mâts totémiques de taille majestueuse. Les maisons reflètent le style architectural de six cultures amérindiennes de la côte ouest : (à partir de l'entrée principale) les Salish de la Côte, les Nuu-Chah-Nulths (Nootkas), les Kwakwaka'wakws, les Nuxalks (Bella Coolas), les Haidas et les Tsimshians. Plus de 40 artisans amérindiens ont travaillé à la construction des maisons, qui a débuté en Colombie-Britannique. Chaque maison représente un style d'habitation qui se trouvait dans un village de la côte au cours des 150 dernières années/Permanent Exhibition Halls: The Grand Hall celebrates the rich cultural heritage of Aboriginal peoples from the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia. It is home to a dramatic exhibition of six Aboriginal houses, each representing a different coastal nation and linguistic group: Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-Nulth (Nootka), Kwakiutl, Nuxalk (Bella Coola), Haida and Tsimshian. The six house façades were constructed by Aboriginal craftsmen, based on coastal architectural styles of the last 150 years. Work was initiated in British Columbia, with final assembly at the Museum/La Salle du Canada : Sous une voûte de 17 mètres de hauteur, cette immense salle d'exposition de 3 065 mètres carrés propose au visiteur un itinéraire de 1 000 ans d'histoire d'une région à l'autre du Canada; édifices reconstruits avec les matériaux typiques de l'époque, scènes et reconstitutions historiques grandeur nature, effets visuels et sonores ainsi qu'animation théâtrale recréant l'atmosphère d'antan/The Canada Hall leads visitors on a remarkable journey through a thousand years of Canada's social history. It is located under a domed ceiling 17 metres high (56 feet), where a panorama of Canadian history unfolds in a sphere of more than 3,000 m² (32,293 sq. ft.). The Canada Hall is being developed in two phases. Phase I, focusing on the Atlantic region, Québec and Ontario from A.D. 1000 to 1885, is complete; Phase II, devoted to Western and Northern Canada from 1885 to the present, is being developed gradually and will be completed in 1998/La future salle des Premiers Peuples couvre une vaste superficie de 4 000 mètres carrés, l'équivalent de bien des musées en Amérique du Nord. Ce nouvel espace passionnant sera essentiellement un musée dans un musée : une vitrine sur la riche diversité des cultures autochtones et leur contribution continuelle à l'évolution de notre société/The First Peoples Hall has a vast interior space of 4,000 square metres, as large as many museums throughout North America. This exciting new space will essentially be a museum within a museum - a fitting showcase for the rich diversity of First Nation cultures and for the celebration of Aboriginal peoples' ongoing unique contribution to our world/Les expositions temporaires : Trois mille trois cents mètres carrés sont consacrés aux expositions reliées à toutes les disciplines du Musée. Cette surface est répartie en trois salles : la galerie, la salle des Arts et traditions populaires, et la salle des Expositions spéciales. On retrouve aussi des expositions temporaires dans d'autre secteurs du Musée. Ces expositions sont organisées par le Musée canadien des civilisations ou prêtées par d'autres institutions du Canada ou de l'étranger/Temporary Exhibition Halls: Three thousand, three hundred m² of exhibition space is reserved for short-term exhibitions from all disciplines in the Museum - archaeology, history, folk culture and ethnology. The Gallery, the Arts and Traditions Hall and the Special Exhibitions Hall showcase changing exhibitions designed by the CMC or produced by Canadian and international institutions
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.
Fort Vermilion Heritage Centre
Fort Vermilion Heritage Centre
Comprised of the Lean-To Museum and Achives (which documents history of the Fort Vermilion area) and the Visitor Log House, a historical building used as a information centre for tourists and other visitors.
Peterborough Centennial Museum & Archives
Peterborough Centennial Museum & Archives
The Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives (PCMA) is a designated Category A heritage institution, managed under the Culture and Heritage Division, City of Peterborough. The PCMA comprises a community museum with a collection of over 22,000 artifacts and specimens, an active education and outreach programme. The City Archives are also housed at the PCMA.
O'Dell House Museum
O'Dell House Museum
O'Dell Inn: restored inn and tavern (1869) containing displays of artifacts, period furniture, special collections of period costumes, pictures of locally built ships and miniature furniture; Robertson House: c.1780 containing children's toys, clothing, displays of school books and accessories covering a period of 150 years
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