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, …
Niagara Historical Society Museum in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, is lovely and I learn something new every time I visit. This video, hosted by Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, explains the significance of the town and of preserving its history, and takes you inside the museum. I’m impressed by the museum’s thoughtfulness in the presentation of its Indigenous …
The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, features Pierre Trudeau’s iconic buckskin canoeing jacket. The accompanying text says: An evocative and very Canadian artefact. The Canadian Canoe Museum is museum no. 52 in my #100museums challenge (see 100 Museums Challenge).
You’ll enjoy The Museum of Illusions most if you bring a friend. Better yet, bring two friends. Go when it’s busy but not too busy. Watching other people, especially children, enjoy themselves is half the fun. There’s science, if you’re interested. There are games and experiments, plenty of brain teasers, and The Vortex Tunnel if …
Thanks to Heritage Toronto for arranging a tour of Guild Park and Gardens over the weekend. I hadn’t been there since I was a kid, so it was a treat. Friends of Guild Park & Gardens are to be congratulated for their valiant work saving the historic sculpture garden at the site of the former …
The current exhibition at Ryerson Image Centre is The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture. Many of the 19th century portraits, especially from South Africa, were printed on something called a carte de visite, a format with which I wasn’t familiar. This terrific short video from the Art Gallery of …
This morning I had the absolute privilege of a personal tour of the Coptic Museum of Canada (formerly St. Mark’s Coptic Museum) and St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Scarborough, by curator and sociologist Dr. Helene Moussa. I’m officially a bit overwhelmed, in a good way. Dr. Moussa’s stories and explanations about the art and …
Interests flow into other interests, and so it is that I became determined to visit the MZTV Museum of Television and Archive … not for itself, but for its London-related exhibit on John Logie Baird (1888-1946). The engineer and inventor is the subject of a blue plaque up on the wall of 22 Frith Street …
The Tollkeeper’s Cottage at Bathurst Street and Davenport Road is an inspiring example of community coming together to rescue, preserve, and restore a historic building. The Community History Project, a non-profit charitable organization, put in an enormous amount of work to acquire the building and move it to its current location, opening it to the …
