On December 9th at 7pm, Museum director/curator Jonathan Walford will be presenting “Tying the Knot”, a 45 minute virtual presentation about the history of wedding attire from the last 250 years, with illustrations of examples of wedding clothes from the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge. This event expands on the fashion history that is currently...
Join us on Tuesday, December 14th from 6 to 8pm at the Museum of Lennox & Addington in Napanee for a holiday celebration! Be mesmerized by amazing outdoor fire & ice shows by Kingston Circus Arts and NorthFIRE. Enjoy Christmas carolers and visit with reindeer in the courtyard. Inside, explore the exhibits and view trees...
The Rural Diary Archive website (https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/) brings together the work of over 200 diarists (1820-1960) across Ontario. It encourages users to learn about the authors, easily search fully transcribed diaries in the collection and help transcribe handwritten ones. This presentation explores several Eastern Ontario diaries in the collection, the nature of diary writing, and the...
Tuesday Night at the Museum is back with our inaugural talk hosted by Vince Brennan, Manager of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies, who will be joining us in celebration of the 175th anniversary of the OAAS. Vince will be sharing photos and stories which lay the foundation of the rich agricultural history of Ontario...
On June 10th, 1800, a bitter dispute between rival factions within the Mohawk Village on the Bay of Quinte escalated into violence and the bloody murder of a father and his son, with others critically wounded. Six Strings is the compelling, revealing and true account of how the Mohawk people conducted their own system of...
