The Peterborough Historical Society is pleased to have initiated the designation of Museum Month in the City of Peterborough. Our sincere thanks to Mayor Ayotte for making this important declaration for the month of May, 2008.

    Seventeen museums and archives provide us with historical information about our area through their varied collections and programs open to the public. Copies of the Museum Month proclamation, signed by the mayor, have been distributed by the Peterborough Historical Society, to each of these facilities asking them to proudly display them for public recognition and to celebrate Museum Month in their own way.

    In 1896 the Peterborough Historical Society was formed understanding that a sense of history was important to our quickly changing community. In 1977 the Society became a legally constituted organization in order to restore Hutchison House the doctor’s house of 1837 as a Museum. The Society owns and supports Hutchison House as a Living History Museum.

    Visit our area’s seventeen museums which are celebrating Museum Month in May! They are:

Canadian Canoe Museum
Hutchison House Living History Museum
Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives
Kawartha Branch of Ontario Genealogical Society
Christ Church Community Museum Lakefield
Industrial Learning Centre Fisher Gauge
Kawartha Ancestral Research Association Inc
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Museum and Archives
(Civic Hospital Museum and Archives)
(St. Joseph’s Hospital Museum and Archives)
Trent Severn Waterway (Transport Museum)
Trent Valley Archives Fairview Heritage Centre
Art Gallery of Peterborough
Peterborough Public Library
Museum Village and Archives
Peterborough Arts Umbrella
Scugog Shores Historical
Lang Pioneer Village
Hope Sawmill Museum
Trent University
Bata Library

Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives

Photo Credit: Gibson Seeley, Volunteer, Hutchison House Museum

WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US!