Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives

We've had a lot of interesting guests pass through our walls, but this was our first Roper Romp! Thank you, Ladies, for brighening up our museum this afternoon!

Need community service hours to graduate? Want to beef up your resume with volunteer experience? Just love touching old things? Boy, do we have an opportunity for you!

We still have a few tickets available for our Halloween Paranormal Investigations! October 30 6 pm to 9 pm OR Midnight Spook-tacular! 9:30 pm to 12:30 am Tickets: $40 + tax shop-klmuseumarchives.square.site/events

Why sit at home on a Tuesday evening when you could come to the museum instead? Tonight marks the first in our Speaker Series, with Ian McKechnie talking about the history of the Kawartha Art Gallery

Coming soon to the KLMA October 13, 6:30 pm is the first entry in our speaker series; we welcome Ian McKechnie to talk about 50 years of the Kawartha Art Gallery. Admission is $5 per person (free for members). info@klmuseumarchives to reserve a spot!

Thanks to ongoing building repairs, we are playing musical entrances this summer! Until further notice, please use the south entrance to visit the museum. It is tucked in behind the construction staging area, so look for the (new) ramp!

A big thank-you to Doug Paterson for bringing his presentation about the Balsam Lake Brotherhood canoe tragedy to our community room last night - a fascinating evening. 100th Anniversary events continue this weekend.

Just a reminder that this free-to-attend event is happening tomorrow evening at the KLMA!

Join us on the evening of July 15th for a special presentation by Doug Paterson. There is no admission fee for this event.

Happy Museum Month!

Psst! Did you know that May is Museum Month? Celebrate by visiting a museum. For the month of May, our admission is by donation.

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Help us bring this amazing Station Agent stove back to Lindsay! It once stood in the Lindsay train station. The current owners want to donate it to us, but first, we need to raise $1,500 to cover transportation costs. shop-klmuseumarchives.square.site/product/dona...

Are you between the ages of 15 and 30 and passionate about local history? We are now hiring for two Canada Summer Jobs positions (starting date July 7). See website for details and program restrictions. www.klmuseumarchives.ca/employment-o...

We're trying a thing! This may become a regular thing, but for now, it's just happening tonight.

Apr 30th @klmuseumarchives.ca is hosting an exhibit launch for "approximately sixty Inuit carvings, sculptures, and materials collected from 1900 to 1970" visiting from Cobourg. Good chance to learn more about these artifacts than one normally would. www.klmuseumarchives.ca/events/exhib...

Come see us during March Break! In addition to all of our current exhibits, we'll have some pop-up exhibits, presentations, activities, games, and more for the whole family!

From the March 17, 1924 Lindsay Daily Post. Marbles games date back to 2500 - 4000 BCE. Mass production of glass marbles in the late 19th and early 20th century made marbles easily-accessible to all, and the game flourished among school-aged children.

We'll be open all week from Monday March 16 until Saturday March 21 for March Break, and we've got lots of fun things planned! We're still working on the schedule, so stay tuned!

We wholeheartedly approve! The world needs more museum-themed whimsy.

"As conflicts flare around the world, a beacon of hope shines in a small Canadian town..." - thank you @angusmaccaull.bsky.social and @broadviewmedia.bsky.social broadview.org/canadian-pea...

Are you a Kawartha Lakes resident (year-round or seasonal) with free time and an interest in local culture and heritage? The Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives is seeking volunteers! www.klmuseumarchives.ca/volunteer

Happy year of the Fire Horse! This postcard dates to 1907 and features horse-drawn fire wagons in front of the fire hall on Cambridge Street North in Lindsay.

Don't forget: not only will the museum be open tomorrow, but admission is free, too!

Roses are red, Violets are blue Happy Valentine's Day From the KLMA to you! On this day over a hundred years ago, Eva McGregor seent this card (made of tissue paper and local Kawartha Lakes birch bark) to Joe Rumney. The card reads, "TO MY BE LOVED ONE." From the Rumney-Hunt collection.

What a perfect opportunity to see our new exhibit. A Collection Built on Relationships: Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Northumberland's Permanent Collection:

Monday February 16 is Heritage Day in Canada - it's also Family Day in Ontario! To celebrate both, the KLMA will be open on Monday, offering free admission, free guided tours, and activities for the kids. Bring the whole family!

The frigid air outside isn’t the only arctic presence in Kawartha Lakes today! A Collection Built on Relationships: Inuit Art from the AGN’s Permanent Collection brings extraordinary Inuit art into our museum. Come in from the cold and explore Inuit art and culture!

On October 22, 1991, the Museum received a phone call from Jim McCubbin, Superintendent at the Milford Gypsum Quarry. The call was to advise that quarry worker Stanley McMullin had just unearthed “a tusk and some big teeth … would we like to have a look at what they found?” Would we?! #NovaScotia

It's a busy day here at the KLMA... preparations are underway for an incoming traveling exhibit, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Northumberland:

A 2025 highlight for us was hosting the Lindsay Rug Hookers’ exhibition of historic and contemporary works in September and October. If you weren't able to visit in person, you can now see the exhibit virtually!

Holiday Hours just dropped! As we do every year, the KLMA will shut its doors between Christmas and New Year's to allow our staff and volunteers to rest up and spend time with their families. If you desperately need to see the museum before 2026, come in today, tomorrow, or Saturday!

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