By Emily Beliveau, Digital Project Assistant This year, our museum pumpkin is inspired by the History Hall funeral parlour display — it’s a jack-o’-lantern hearse, complete with casket and occupant. The styling was based on a horse-drawn hearse on...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Project Assistant In 1914, the passenger pigeon became extinct. The last known survivor of the species was a female named Martha (after Martha Washington), who died at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914 at 1:00pm. Only 50 years earlier,...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Project Assistant It’s #MuseumCats day today, so we are joining our museum friends around the internet by posting cat-related items from the Huron County Museum’s collection. Special to the blog, we’re marking...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Today is Election Day for eligible Ontario voters, a chance to make history by participating in the democratic process. To mark the day, here are some election-related items from the museum’s collection: a...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Today we feature a blank slate as we open up the blog to all kinds of content from the Huron County Museum and related sites. When we started the blog back in December 2013, it was mostly a vehicle to talk about the...
