On the third floor of Casa Loma is a completely separate museum, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives. My visit to the museum answered two questions I’d had. 1) What was the story behind “Our Absent Hero: Poems in Loving Memory of Captain William Arthur Peel Durie, 58th Battalion, C.E.F.” by …
Osgoode Hall, one of the oldest buildings in Toronto (opened 1832), is the home of the Law Society of Ontario as well as the highest courts of the province. As I was sitting on the grassy lawn outside, reading about the architecture, I was startled when a large clump of leaves fell on my papers. …
The Design Exchange has been located in the old Toronto Stock Exchange at 234 Bay Street, designated a heritage property in 1978, since 1994. The signage says: While the Design Exchange did have one current exhibition on (The Futurists: Young Canada Transforms Tomorrow), I was more interested in the historic building, for an odd personal reason. …
I fell hard for a sculpture at Toronto Dominion Gallery of Art. This is Owl and Owlet by by Kumakuluk Saggiak, Cape Dorset (Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada), 1972. Toronto Dominion Gallery of Inuit Art is museum no. 60 in my #100museums challenge (see 100 Museums Challenge).
At the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto right now, it really is all about you. The thought-provoking multi-media current exhibition, Age of You, was a pleasure to explore, and right on target for an information professional (librarian). I found reflecting on what it means to exist at this technology-intense time in history both horrifying …
Before I visited the new Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, New York, I had no idea what a crucial role the city and surrounding area played in the success of the underground railroad. What was the underground railroad? The Heritage Center’s brochure says: The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center is …
If you visit Niagara Falls, New York, be sure to check out Orin Lehman Visitor Centre, which has a set of terrific educational displays on the lower level. I was especially interested in the geological information. When I was a girl, my Brownies troop (😊) took a field trip to Niagara Falls. I have a …
The new 9,000-square-foot artifact storage facility at Peterborough Museum and Archives, shown in this 2015 video, is a wonderland. The only other time I’ve had the privilege of being let loose to wander (but don’t touch!) in an archival storage area of similar dimensions was at the Museum of London’s archive on Eagle Wharf Road, …
I’m pleased to have finally made it out to Montgomery’s Inn in Etobicoke for the first time. Montgomery’s Inn is one of the ten City of Toronto museums, and the fifth that I’ve visited so far this year (the others being Gibson House Museum, The Market Gallery, Scarborough Museum, and Colborne Lodge). I’m hoping to …
Castellani Art Museum, opened in 1990, is on the campus of Niagara University in Niagara Falls, New York. I was pleased to have a chance to visit the museum during a lunch break from a conference on the campus. The museum has a permanent collection of over 5,500 pieces of mostly modern and contemporary art, …
