Huron County is known across the world as "Alice Munro Country." Alice Munro (1931-2024) was born in Wingham and lived in Clinton for decades. The landscapes, culture, architecture and people of Huron County are reflected in many of her incisive stories. Today...
Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. Photo: Robert Watson diary, pages 8-9. Cliquez ici pour le Français The Museum's digitization collection has grown to include scanned and uploaded eight historical diaries. They were...
Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. Cliquez ici pour le Français A series of short films to the Huron County Museum's YouTube channel that were filmed by local media company CKNX in the 1960s and 1970s. The clips range from...
Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. The photo above is a portrait of World War II serviceman Leon Prosser. A992.1040c Cliquez ici pour le Français 500 additional photographs of World War II servicemen have been catalogued,...
Written by Collections Assistant Noah Chapman. Recently, the Huron County Museum began the transfer of artifacts from the (now-closed) North Huron Museum. Among the items was this image of a group of World War One soldiers (object number 2023.0067.352)....
The Huron County Museum celebrated the launch of a new mural in the Museum's lobby created by Anishinaabe artist Jeannette Ladd.
Huron County Census Records from the 1840s to the 1870s now available online
It's only 10 days before Christmas and my Museum membership gave to me...
A George Agnew Reid painting has returned to Huron County thanks to a donation of the painting The Homeseekers Fording the Credit to the Huron County Museum. Homeseekers Fording the Credit was recently donated to the Museum from the Perkins Bull Collection. Most of...
Staff are often asked if the Gaol is haunted, so museum assistant Talia Collins shares some staff experiences ahead of our Ghost Tours this fall and invites you to come and see for yourself! Is the Huron Historic Gaol haunted? Well, it depends on who you ask! Some...
