By Emily Beliveau, Digital Project Assistant Happy Halloween! Behold this postcard image from our collection featuring pumpkin-headed melon people cutting a cake to mark the day. Every year, I marvel at this image and wish that vegetable people were still a common...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Project Assistant Twenty-five years ago, on 30 September 1989, the newly redeveloped Huron County Museum officially opened to the public. Just a few years earlier, the fate of the Museum was in question after part of the main building...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Project Assistant Our temporary exhibit Noteworthy: Musical Instruments closes Sunday, 14 September 2014. Last week, Assistant Curator Elizabeth French-Gibson recounted the memories of her childhood music lessons as she described the many...
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...
By Elizabeth French-Gibson, Assistant Curator Like many children, for me growing up included music lessons. My piano teacher was a wonderful lady who could actually play the piano with her hands behind her back. My mother arranged to buy a used piano which still...
By Mary-Katherine Whelan, Intern Mary-Katherine has been interning at the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol since May and is currently enrolled in the Museum Management and Curatorship program at Fleming College. A graduate from the Arts Management Program at...
By Mary-Katherine Whelan, Intern Mary-Katherine has been interning at the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol since May and is currently enrolled in the Museum Management and Curatorship program at Fleming College. A graduate from the Arts Management Program at...
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 the occasion...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant For the next several weeks, soccer fans everywhere will be consumed with the geo-political sports drama of the World Cup. Going back to June 1911 in Huron County soccer history (19 years before the first World Cup),...
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 118-year-old...