Exhibits
Power & Precision: Golf and Curling in Elgin County
Current Exhibit | September 3, 2024 – December 7, 2024
Explore the history of golf and curling in Elgin County. See historic golf clubs, curling brooms, jackets, pins, medals and trophies on display. The exhibit includes items from the personal collection of Jim Waite, four-time Olympic Men’s Curling coach. Power & Precision also features the Malahide Curling Medal, which has been competed for annually since 1865.
Past Exhibits
Port Stanley is set to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lord Stanley’s visit in 2024, after whom the port was named. This exhibition on Port Stanley’s historic hotels, includes selections from the recently donated Heritage Port Collection. Mackie’s, the sole surviving occupant of the old boardwalk, is represented by its large 1930 popcorn machine on loan from a private collector.
Visitors can scramble their own messages using a cipher wheel, tackle puzzles, test their cyber smarts to find out how safe their personal information is online, and see how an authentic Enigma cipher machine works, by sending a message and watching how Enigma creates a new message.
Developed by Ingenium, Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation in partnership with the Communications Security Establishment.
The summer exhibit will highlight the 125th anniversary of the Baker Family Re-union and Picnic illustrating key periods in the history of the family and of their part of Central Elgin. A complementary exhibit on the 19th century picnic tradition will illustrate the many union, club, fraternal, school, and church picnics that were often held at the lake ports. These events with their ancillary trains, boats, and bands constituted major social occasions.
Space to Spoon is a hands-on experience, with stunning graphics and interactive elements for visitors of all ages. The exhibit showcases the technology that transforms satellite images into agricultural applications in a way that encourages informal learning among audiences.
Developed by Ingenium, Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, in partnership with the Canadian Agriculture and Food Museum and the Canadian Space Agency.
The fate of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition was one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries, until the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were found. This exhibition explores the role of Inuit oral history in solving that mystery. It features photographs, illustrations and an animated map of routes charted by Europeans looking for a Northwest Passage in the 350 years before Franklin’s expedition. Visitors can hear stories of Inuit encounters with Franklin and his men, and of Martin Frobisher’s voyages to Baffin Island in the 1570s.
Developed by the Canadian Museum of History and the Inuit Heritage Trust.
Watercolour illustrations by Heather Campbell, an Inuit artist from Nunatsiavut (Labrador).
For more information about this Travelling Exhibit, visit the Canadian Museum of History website.
Musée canadien de l’histoire, Artefacts = Canadian Museum of History, Artefacts
My Story, My Tattoo features 32 photographs and stories of people and their amazing tattoos. The exhibit includes audio stations, videos and text panels. Participants represent every walk of life – everyone from a cancer survivor to teachers and their students, a firefighter and a farmer – and live throughout Wellington County. All of the individuals were open and honest, and their stories and personalities are represented through this series of thought-provoking and colourful images.
A travelling exhibit from the Wellington County Museum and Archives.