Celebrate Historic Places Days at the Museum & Gaol

Celebrate Historic Places Days at the Museum & Gaol

By Robyn Weishar, Programs and Marketing Assistant The Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol is excited to participate in the annual Historic Places Days celebration alongside many other participating historic sites across Canada. Historic Places Days is a promotional...
Huron County Museum Welcomes Ribbon Skirt Project

Huron County Museum Welcomes Ribbon Skirt Project

The Huron County Museum is very pleased to host The Ribbon Skirt Project: Creating & Gifting a Cultural Connection, a collection of more than 215 ribbon skirts which will be on display throughout the Museum from March 12-April 10, 2022. The Ribbon Skirt Project...
Diamonds are Forever: The Legacy of the Koh-I-Noor

Diamonds are Forever: The Legacy of the Koh-I-Noor

On November 12th, 2015, the Huron County Museum will be showing the 2014 Hindi action-adventure movie Bang Bang for its Bollywood Movie Night. A remake of Hollywood’s Knight and Day, the Bollywood film follows the adventures of an unassuming bank employee...
Centuries Collide: Becoming Mrs. Dickson

Centuries Collide: Becoming Mrs. Dickson

The Huron Historic Gaol’s popular evening Tuesday and Thursday tours, Behind the Bars, are coming to an end for another year! Your last chance to meet historic prisoners and staff from the gaol’s past is Thursday, August 27th at 7-9pm. In celebration of...
Night Shift @ the Huron Historic Gaol

Night Shift @ the Huron Historic Gaol

How do interpreters bring real stories from the past to life for visitors? Behind the Bars features costumed volunteers portraying real prisoners and staff members from the Huron Historic Gaol’s (181 Victoria St./Highway 21, Goderich, ON) past.  Summer Museum...
“Curiouser and Curiouser…”

“Curiouser and Curiouser…”

On Saturday, August 22nd The Huron County Museum is transforming into Wonderland for a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. In honour of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, Summer Museum Assistant Becca Marshall shares some of...