This list of museums in Ontario, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
See also List of museums in Ottawa for museums in the city of Ottawa.
See also List of museums in Toronto for museums in the city of Toronto.
Name | Location | Census Division | Region | Type | Summary | Website |
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1000 Islands History Museum (Arthur Child Heritage Museum) | Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Multiple | http://www.1000islandsheritagemuseum.com/ | ||
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead | Historic house | mid-19th century childhood farm home of Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, founder of the Women's Institute | http://www.adelaidehoodless.ca/ | |||
Art | Operated by Queen's University, includes Canadian, European, Inuit and African art, decorative arts | https://agnes.queensu.ca/ | ||||
Multiple | Includes the visitor center with exhibits about the area's natural and cultural history, and a logging museum | http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/algonquin | ||||
Alix Art Gallery | Lambton County | Southwestern | Art | includes paintings by the Group of Seven, contemporary and historically significant Canadian visual art and visual culture | http://www.jnaag.ca/ | |
Allan Macpherson House | Eastern | Historic house | c.1830 period house, Georgian architecture built by Napanee's first postmaster and a prominent local figure, operated by the Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives | https://www.lennox-addington.on.ca/museum-archives/macpherson-house | ||
Ameliasburgh Historical Museum | Open air | complex of buildings and exhibits around a church built c.1868 | https://www.thecounty.ca/county-government/departments/museums/about-us/ameliasburgh-heritage-village/ | |||
Essex County | Southwestern | African American | Focus on the Underground Railroad, black history in Canada, includes 19th-century church and log cabin | http://www.amherstburgfreedom.org/ | ||
Northeastern | Agriculture | Operated by Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums, historic 1920s period farmhouse, barn and milk house | http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/index.cfm?app=w_vmuseum&lang=en&currID=1372&parID=1371 | |||
Southwestern | Historic house | 1880s Victorian house known for its lavish Aesthetic art decorations | https://www.tillsonburg.ca/en/Annandale-National-Historic-Site.aspx?_mid_=104570 | |||
Arbor Gallery | Eastern | Art | contemporary art centre | http://www.arborgallery.org/ | ||
Arkona Lions Museum | Southwestern | Natural history | features Devonian fossils and First Nations artifacts from the Lambton County area | http://www.lambtononline.ca/home/residents/museums/arkonamuseum/ | ||
Arnprior & District Museum | Eastern | Local history | also hosts visiting exhibits on a variety of subjects | https://arnprior.ca/town/arnprior-district-museum/ | ||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Art | Visual art | https://www.artgalleryofalgoma.com/ | ||
Golden Horseshoe | Art | Contemporary art centre, focus on visual art and crafts | http://artgalleryofburlington.com/ | |||
Wellington County | Southwestern | Art | Exhibits of contemporary and historical art, craft and design | http://artgalleryofguelph.ca/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Includes Canadian and European works | https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/ | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Emphasis on area artists and Canadian art | https://www.artgalleryofmississauga.com/ | ||
Art Gallery of Northumberland | Central | Art | http://www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.com/ | |||
Central | Art | Focus is Canadian art | https://agp.on.ca/ | |||
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Art | Contemporary art | https://artgalleryofsudbury.myshopify.com/ | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Art | Significant works of art by local, regional and national artists | https://www.agw.ca/ | ||
Artcite | Southwestern | Art | artist-run contemporary and experimental art centre | http://www.artcite.ca/ | ||
Artery Gallery | Golden Horseshoe | Art | https://uwaterloo.ca/society-of-fine-arts/artery-exhibitions | |||
Artspace Peterborough | Peterborough County | Central | Art | artist-run contemporary art centre | https://artspace-arc.org/ | |
Assiginack Museum Complex | Northeastern | Open air | includes the original late 19th-century town lock-up and jailer's home, pioneer home, school, blacksmith shop and driving shed, and the, a steam-powered automobile ferry museum ship | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/museums/assiginack_complex.htm, http://www.assiginack.ca/assiginack-museum-heritage-complex/ | ||
Atikokan Centennial Museum | Rainy River District | Local history | includes collection of logging, mining and railroad heavy equipment | http://www.atikokan.ca/content/atikokan-centennial-museum | ||
Aurora Museum & Archives | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | History and stories of the Town of Aurora | https://www.aurora.ca/en/recreation-arts-and-culture/museum-and-archives.aspx | ||
Aylmer & District Museum | Southwestern | Local history | Preserves local artifacts and histories | http://www.amtelecom.net/~aylmermuseum/ | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | Open air | Includes 19th century period buildings, a working historic grist mill and a nature centre | http://www.lprca.on.ca/pages/1357922890/Backus-Heritage | ||
Elgin County | Southwestern | Historic house | Operated by the Tyrconnell Heritage Society, mid-19th century period house | http://www.backuspagehouse.ca/ | ||
Central | Biographical | Life of author Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables | http://www.balasmuseum.com/ | |||
Golden Horseshoe | Natural history | Ecology of the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve, the natural history of the Twenty Valley and its watershed, and the area's cultural history | https://npca.ca/parks/balls-falls | |||
Bancroft Mineral Museum | Central | Natural history | area gemstones and minerals, operated by the Bancroft Gem and Mineral Club | https://www.bancroftontario.com/bancroft-attractions/bancroft-mineral-museum/ | ||
Bancroft North Hastings Heritage Museum | Hastings County | Central | Local history | http://www.bancroftheritagemuseum.ca/ | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Medical | http://bantinghousenhsc.wordpress.com/ | |||
Barn Dance Historical Society Entertainment Museum | Southwestern | Music | located inside the North Huron Museum, history of the barn dance radio show and its country music performers | http://www.thebarndance.ca/ | ||
Northumberland | Central | Historic house | https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/properties/barnum-house | |||
Central | Military | History of CFB Borden, includes planes, tanks, uniforms, weapons | https://www.cafconnection.ca/Borden/Facilities/Museum.aspx | |||
Bath Museum | Eastern | Local history | http://www.bathmuseumontario.com/ | |||
Battle Ground Hotel Museum | Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | http://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/visit/battle-ground-hotel-museum.aspx | ||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Military | 60 foot stone lighthouse tower, site of the 1838 Battle of the Windmill | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/windmill | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/battlefield-house-museum-park-national-historic-site | |||
Oxford County | Southwestern | Local history | includes Victorian period room displays, agriculture equipment and vehicles | https://beachvilledistrictmuseum.com/ | ||
Central | History | operated by the Beaverton Thorah Eldon Historical Society, includes mid-19th century log cabin, 1900 period house and a jail | http://btehs.com/museum/ | |||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | 1870s period home of Alexander Graham Bell, exhibits on his life, the invention of the telephone, and the origins of Canadian telephone operations to 1880 | https://www.brantford.ca/en/things-to-do/bell-homestead.aspx | ||
Hastings County | Central | Scouting | open by appointment | http://www3.sympatico.ca/pandj/ | ||
Bellevue House National Historic Site | Frontenac County | Eastern | Historic house | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/bellevue | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | early 20th century period house spanning four family generations | https://culture.mississauga.ca/collection/heritage-houses | ||
Central | Biographical | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/bethune | ||||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Historic house | https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/properties/bethune-thompson-house | |||
Grey County | Southwestern | Biographical | Late Victorian birthplace home of WW I flying ace Billy Bishop, also features artifacts from Canadians who fought in the air during World War One and World War Two | https://www.owensound.ca/en/billy-bishop-museum.aspx | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/ | |||
Blockhouse Museum | Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Transportation | history of the Rideau Canal, photos, local history exhibits, located in a historic blockhouse, operated by the Merrickville and District Historical Society | https://www.merrickvillehistory.org/blank-3 | |
Parry Sound District | Northeastern | Sports | Ice hockey history and memorabilia of Bobby Orr, located in the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts | https://www.bobbyorrhalloffame.com/ | ||
Eastern | Multiple | local history, culture and natural history, including area Ordovician fossils, geology, First Nations artifacts, fur trade, timber industry | http://www.bonnechere.ca/ | |||
Bothwell-Zone Oil Museum | Southwestern | Industry | oil industry powerhouse and equipment, operated by the Bothwell-Zone & District Historical Society | http://www.historicbothwell.ca/oil_museum.htm | ||
Central | Local history | http://www.theboydmuseum.com/ | ||||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | the complex consists of four buildings, three of which are designated Ontario Heritage sites | https://culture.mississauga.ca/collection/heritage-houses | ||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Art | operated by the Brant Historical Society, collection of decorative and fine arts | http://brantmuseum.ca/contact/brant-museum-archives/ | ||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Sports | https://www.brantford.ca/en/your-government/wall-of-recognition.aspx | |||
Brocksden Country School Museum | Perth County | Southwestern | Education | 19th century schoolhouse, open by appointment | http://www.tavistock.on.ca/brocksden.html | |
Eastern | Local history | http://www.brockvillemuseum.com/ | ||||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | operated by the Conrad Grebel University College and the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario, restored mid-19th century Pennsylvania German farmstead | https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/about-grebel/our-partners/brubacher-house | ||
Southwestern | Multiple | exhibits include local history, natural history, maritime, First Nations, agriculture, maritime, military and culture | http://www.brucemuseum.ca/ | |||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Local history | http://www.brucemines.ca/museum.html | |||
Northeastern | Military | includes artifacts from the Boer War to the present day | https://cobalt.ca/visitors/museums/, http://www.cobaltmininglegacy.ca/visitingCobalt.php | |||
Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | History | Historic buildings in Underground Railroad community | http://www.buxtonmuseum.com/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Open air | mid 19th-century village buildings with authentic furnishings and artifacts | https://bygonedaysheritagevillage.ca/ | ||
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Railway | Features local railway artifacts, displays and an operating "G" scale model train | https://www.haldimandcounty.ca/grand-trunk-railway-station/ | ||
Northeastern | Multiple | located in the home of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who delivered and cared for the Dionne quintuplets; includes period doctor's office and dispensary displays, the Dionne quintuplets, a barber shop, period rooms, area logging and maritime history, and the Alex Dufresne Gallery of Art | https://www.mycallander.ca/en/visiting-us/museum | |||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Natural history | butterfly conservatory with live butterflies, birds, plants and natural history exhibits | http://www.cambridgebutterfly.com/ | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Offers a variety of arts programs, including a gallery | http://www.cambridgecentreforthearts.ca | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | part of the Cambridge Public Library system with exhibition space at Queen's Square, Preston and Design at Riverside | https://ideaexchange.org/art | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | outdoor sculpture garden | http://www.cambridgesculpturegarden.ca/ | ||
Central | Military | collection includes uniforms, weapons and ground transport and features a 60% scale model of the CF-105 Avro Arrow | http://www.avroland.ca/al-places-campbellford.html, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Memorial-Military-Museum/578592728853958 | |||
York Region | Golden Horseshoe | Sports | Achievements of top Canadian Footballers and Builders who have played and developed the game in Canada | https://canadasoccer.com/hall-of-fame-s14653 | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Science | offers displays and interactive exhibits | http://www.cssciencecity.com/ | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | Forestry | highlights efforts to plant the area's forests | https://www.norfolktourism.ca/directory/listing/canadas-first-forestry-station-interpretive-centre | ||
Central | Automobile | Features mostly Canadian-made cars, automotive history in Canada | http://www.canadianautomotivemuseum.com/ | |||
Southwestern | Sports | Great players, teams, and accomplishments of baseball in Canada | http://www.baseballhalloffame.ca/ | |||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Aviation | History of bush flying and forest protection in Canada | http://www.bushplane.com/ | ||
Central | Maritime | Canoe collection and how the canoe defines the Canadian character and spirit | http://www.canoemuseum.ca/ | |||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Historic and contemporary Canadian ceramic, glass and enamel art | http://www.theclayandglass.ca/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Heritage of Canada's many clock manufacturers and sellers from the early 19th century to the present | http://www.canclockmuseum.ca/ | |||
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Industry | History of the early natural gas fields of Haldimand, Norfolk and Southern Ontario | http://www.canadiandrillingrigmuseum.com/ | ||
Central | Firefighting | includes vehicles, fire hydrants, working municipal fire alarm system, photo displays, helmets, turnout gear and tools of the trade | http://www.firemuseumcanada.com/ | |||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Sports | http://www.cfhof.ca/ | |||
Nipissing District | Northeastern | Military | http://www.aerospacedefence.ca/, https://www.facebook.com/AeroDefMuseum/ | |||
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum | Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Sports | Canada's golf heritage, featuring famous players, courses and golf technology | https://golfcanada.ca/history-of-the-game/ | |
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Medical | Honours Canadians who have contributed to the understanding of disease and improving the health of people | http://www.cdnmedhall.org/ | ||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Military | includes weapons, uniforms, medals, models and artifacts | https://canadianmilitaryheritagemuseum.ca/ | ||
Canadian Museum of Indian Civilization | Golden Horseshoe | Religious | essence of Hinduism in North America | https://vishnumandir.com/attractions/museum/ | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Multiple | includes village with late over 20 heritage buildings from the 18th century up to the late 1920s, and the museum with antique, vintage and hot rod cars and trucks | http://www.ctmhv.com/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Aerospace | Military aircraft | https://www.warplane.com/ | ||
Central | Open air | includes two log houses, a railway station and caboose, a meeting hall and a driving shed | http://www.canningtonhistoricalsociety.ca/museum.html | |||
Lanark County | Eastern | Local history | local history and culture | http://www.cpbheritagemuseum.com/ | ||
Carman House Museum | Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Living | an 1835 period Loyalist house | https://www.facebook.com/CarmanHouseMuseum/ | |
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | Late 19th century Victorian house | https://www.wilmot.ca/en/Castle-Kilbride-Museum.aspx | ||
Centennial Museum of Sheguiandah | Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Local history | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/museums/centennial_museum.html | ||
Northwestern | Forestry | Features a museum and recreation of a 1910 logging camp, including train | ||||
Central Manitoulin Pioneer Museum | Manitoulin District | Northeastern | History | operated by the Central Manitoulin Historical Society, includes a log home, blacksmith shop, barn and equipment, milk processing and butter making equipment and ice harvesting tools | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/museums/pioneer_museum.htm | |
Renfrew County | Eastern | Open air | operated by the Ottawa Valley Historical Society | http://www.champlaintrailmuseum.com/ | ||
Sudbury District | Northeastern | Local history | Features a variety of local artifacts, a steam locomotive, monuments and models of local landmarks | http://www.chapleau.ca/en/visit/museumsteamengine.asp | ||
Chapple Museum | Rainy River District | Northwestern | Local history | http://www.chapple.on.ca/chapple-museum | ||
Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Railroad | early railroad equipment, located in a baggage car | http://www.chathamrailroadmuseum.ca/ | ||
Chatham-Kent | Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | African American | W.I.S.H. Centre features exhibits about black history and historic sites in the area | https://ckbhs.org/ | |
Chatham-Kent | Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | History | local history including artifacts from the War of 1812, a Gray Dort automobile, horse-drawn vehicles, and a mummy | https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/chatham-kent-museum | |
Eastern | History | local history | https://northdundas.com/community/tourism/chesterville-heritage-centre/ | |||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | mid-19th century birthplace home of Pauline Johnson, a First Nations author and performer | https://chiefswoodnhs.ca/ | ||
Central | History | local history | https://thekawarthas.ca/what-to-do/christ-church-community-museum/ | |||
Midwestern | Civic | Local history. Collection was relocated from the Seagram Museum. | https://www.waterloo.ca/en/things-to-do/city-of-waterloo-museum.aspx | |||
Clarke Museum | Central | History | operated by the Clarington Museums, includes local history displays, one room schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, agricultural equipment | https://claringtonmuseums.com/clarke-schoolhouse/ | ||
Eastern | History | historic artifacts including tools, clothing, kitchen and other household effects | http://pioneer.mazinaw.on.ca/ | |||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Firefighting | https://www.facebook.com/firerescuemusem/ | |||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Mining | silver mining | https://cobalt.ca/visitors/museums/ | ||
Cochrane District | Northeastern | Railway | includes railroad, local history exhibits | http://www.museumsontario.ca/museum/Cochrane-Railway-and-Pioneer-M | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Open air | http://www.coldwatermuseum.com/ | |||
Simcoe County | Central | History | local history including early pioneer life, local settlers, traditional logging practices and pioneer settlement | https://www.collingwood.ca/culture-recreation-events/heritage-museum/collingwood-museum | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | History | local history | https://combermuseum.ca/ | ||
Commanda General Store Museum | Parry Sound District | Northeastern | History | 1885 High Victorian store with counters, flooring and goods from 1885 to 1934 | http://www.commandamuseum.ca/ | |
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Historic house | Operated by Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums, turn-of-the-20th-century log cabin mining family home | http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/index.cfm?app=w_vmuseum&lang=en&currID=1373&parID=1371 | ||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | History | local history | https://cornwallcommunitymuseum.wordpress.com/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Prison | Also known as the Correctional Service of Canada Museum, features the history of Kingston Penitentiary, other correctional centres and history of Canada's penitentiary system | http://www.penitentiarymuseum.ca/ | ||
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | late 19th century Victorian mansion and period furniture | http://www.cottonwoodmansion.ca/ | ||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Agriculture | Formerly the Ontario Agricultural Museum, over 30 buildings depict agriculture and rural life over the span of 170 years | http://www.countryheritagepark.com/ | ||
Central | History | local history and information centre | https://www.thebluemountainslibrary.ca/museum.cfm | |||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | First Nations | Features reconstructed 15th century Iroquoian village and interpretive programs | https://conservationhalton.ca/park-details?park=crawford-lake | ||
Ottawa | Eastern | Living | 1920-1930s rural village | https://ottawa.ca/en/arts-heritage-and-events/museums-and-historic-sites/cumberland-heritage-village-museum | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | Local history | includes the agricultural and cultural development of the area | http://delhimuseum.ca/ | ||
Ottawa | Eastern | Military | Cold War bunker for the Canadian government | https://diefenbunker.ca/en/ | ||
Nipissing District | Northeastern | Biographical | https://dionnequintshome.com/ | |||
Nipissing District | Northeastern | History | formerly the North Bay Area Museum, local history | https://www.northbaymuseum.com/ | ||
Discovery Harbour | Simcoe County | Central | Open air | recreated 19th century community with replica ships and smaller vessels, historic buildings, and an original officers' quarters | http://www.discoveryharbour.on.ca/dh/en/Home/ | |
Donald Hughes Annex Museum | Middlesex County | Southwestern | Local history | operated by the North Middlesex Historical Society | http://www.ailsacraigmuseum.ca/ | |
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Living | 1914 rural life | https://www.waterlooregionmuseum.ca/en/doon-heritage-village/explore-village-buildings.aspx | ||
Central | Historic house | operated by the East Durham Historical Society, 19th century Victorian worker's cottage, open seasonally | http://www.porthopehistorical.ca/museum.htm | |||
Central | History | local history including early pioneer life, local settlers, traditional logging practices and pioneer settlement | http://www.dorsetheritagemuseum.ca/ | |||
Dryden & District Museum | Kenora District | Northwestern | Local history | artifacts related to the history and heritage of the Dryden area | https://www.dryden.ca/en/explore/museum.aspx | |
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | History | originally known as the Paipoonge Museum, located in Oliver Paipoonge, early settler household artifacts, and community life | https://oliverpaipoonge.ca/living/museums/duke-hunt-historical-museum | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | History | local history | http://www.dundasmuseum.ca/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/dundurn-national-historic-site | |||
Grey County | Southwestern | Art | https://www.durhamartgallery.com/ | |||
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Mining | Geology and mining for nickel and gold | https://www.sciencenorth.ca/dynamic-earth/ | ||
Ear Falls Museum | Kenora District | Northwestern | Local history | area's aboriginal peoples, gold mining and lumbering industries and transportation | ||
Golden Horseshoe | Local history | Includes original 1857 jail cell and gypsum mining exhibits | https://www.haldimandcounty.ca/heritage-culture/edinburgh-square-heritage-cultural-centre/ | |||
Egyptian Museum of Mississauga | Golden Horseshoe | Golden Horseshoe | Archaeology | focuses on Egyptian history from Ancient Egyptian to Coptic, back 7,000 years | https://www.theegyptianmuseum.ca/ | |
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Historic house | 19th century period mansion and gardens | https://eldonhouse.ca/ | ||
Elgin County | Southwestern | Local history | promotes Elgin County’s historical and agricultural heritage | https://www.elgincounty.ca/museum/ | ||
Elgin County | Southwestern | Railway | Railroad engines, cars and equipment, located in former Michigan Central Railroad locomotive shops from 1913 | http://www.ecrm5700.org/ | ||
Elgin County | Southwestern | Military | Canadian military history of Elgin County and its residents | http://www.theelginmilitarymuseum.ca/ | ||
Northeastern | Mining | area's uranium mining history including the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, also nuclear power, minerals, local history, logging, wildlife, marine artifacts | https://www.elliotlake.ca/en/recreation-and-culture/museum-and-history.aspx | |||
York Region | Central | Local history | offers educational activities for all ages | https://www.newmarket.ca/ThingsToDo/Pages/Recreation%20and%20Culture/Elman%20W.%20Campbell%20Museum.aspx | ||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Local history | also art exhibits | http://www.englehart.ca/node/25 | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | https://fwio.on.ca/erland | |||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Historic house | 19th century period house and summer kitchen, and turn-of-the-20th-century blockhouse and gardens | https://saultstemarie.ca/City-Hall/City-Departments/Community-Development-Enterprise-Services/Community-Services/Recreation-and-Culture/Historic-Sites-and-Heritage/Ermatinger-Clergue-National-Historic-Site/Ermatinger-Old-Stone-House.aspx | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Agriculture | antique engines, tractors and farm machinery | http://www.essexsteamandgasengine.com/ | ||
Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Local history | ||||
Eastern | Historic house | Victorian period house | https://www.fgsociety.com/the-fairfield-gutzeit-house | |||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Living | 19th century village with over 30 original and replica buildings on 46acres | http://fanshawepioneervillage.ca/ | ||
Hastings County | Central | Agriculture | previously known as Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage, includes cheese factory, barn display, farm machinery, steam engines and tractors, and an indoor 1930s-1940s heritage village display with period stores | https://farmtownpark.ca/ | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Themed collections | 10,000 historical garments and accessories dating from the mid 18th century to the present | http://fashionhistorymuseum.com/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Multiple | local history and art exhibits | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/fieldcote-memorial-park-museum | ||
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Historic house | Operated by Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums, early 20th-century house and log cabin | http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/index.cfm?app=w_vmuseum | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Art | artist-run centre for contemporary practices in visual/media arts, performance, literature and music | http://www.forestcitygallery.com/ | ||
Forest-Lambton Museum | Lambton County | Southwestern | Local history | 1890s period rooms, local history, natural history, military and doll displays | http://www.lambtononline.ca/home/residents/museums/forestmuseum/ | |
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Military | Restored War of 1812 period fort | https://www.niagaraparks.com/visit/heritage/old-fort-erie/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | housed in the 1874 Bertie Township Hall | https://www.forterie.ca/pages/FortErieHistoricalMuseum | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Railway | features a steam engine, historic railway station, area railroad history and artifacts | https://www.forterie.ca/pages/FortErieRailwayMuseum | ||
Rainy River District | Northwestern | Local history | includes natural history, First Nations, fur traders, pioneers, forest industry, community development and growth, art exhibits | https://www.fortfrances.ca/experience/activities-amenities/museum | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Military | Restored War of 1812 period fort with living history demonstrations | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/fortgeorge/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Military | 19th-century British military fortress with costumed interpreters | http://www.forthenry.com/ | ||
Fort Malden National Historic Site | Essex County | Southwestern | Military | Restored fort buildings and exhibits about the War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1837 and 19th century soldiers' lives | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/malden/ | |
Algoma District | Northeastern | Military | Ruins of a War of 1812 fort, exhibits about the site's military history | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/stjoseph/ | ||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Military | Restored 1846 period fort with living history demonstrators | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/wellington/ | ||
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Living | Reconstructed 1815 fur trading post | http://fwhp.ca/ | ||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Transportation | http://www.prescott.ca/en/live-here/Forwarders-Museum.asp | |||
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Open air | https://www.oliverpaipoonge.ca/living/museums/founders-museum-pioneer-village | |||
Ottawa | Eastern | Art | Artist-run gallery for regional art, located in the Nepean Sportsplex | |||
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Ethnic | trades and traditions of pioneers, antique musical instruments and the daily life of the first French-Canadian settlers information, heritage of the Franco-Ontarian settlers | http://www.cfof.on.ca/(in French) | ||
Central | Art | https://www.markham.ca/wps/portal/home/arts/varley-art-gallery | ||||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Education | one-room rural school house in the 1900-1930 era | http://www.fcsmuseum.com/ | ||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Historic house | https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/index.php/properties/fulford-place | |||
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Art | Focus is contemporary art by Franco-Ontarian artists | https://gn-o.org/ | ||
Southwestern | Aviation | |||||
Perth County | Southwestern | Art | Exhibitions of local, national and international visual artists | http://www.gallerystratford.on.ca/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Military | http://petawawamuseums.org/ | |||
Simcoe County | Central | Art | part of Georgian College in the Helen and Arch Brown Centre for Visual Art | https://www.georgiancollege.ca/community-alumni/campus-gallery/ | ||
Golden Horseshoe | Military | features the involvement of people of Georgina in Canadian wartime conflicts | https://georginamilitarymuseum.ca/ | |||
Golden Horseshoe | Open air | includes a log house, church, schoolhouse, general store, train station, blacksmith shop and apothecary | https://www.georgina.ca/discover-georgina/arts-and-culture/georgina-pioneer-village-archives | |||
Essex County | Southwestern | Art | located in an 1896 former railroad station | http://www.gibsonartgallery.com/ | ||
Central | Historic house | 1890s period mansion | http://glanmore.ca/ | |||
Eastern | Open air | Twelve 19th-century wooden buildings (including the oldest still-functioning bar in Ontario) in a rural setting, with historic tools and artifacts, farm equipment and machinery, furniture, household items, clothing and fabrics | http://glengarrypioneermuseum.ca/ | |||
Eastern | Sports | achievements of Glengarry County's athletes | https://www.facebook.com/GlengarrySportsHallofFame/ | |||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Art | contemporary art | http://www.glenhyrst.ca/ | ||
Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Local history | also art exhibits, operated by the Western Manitoulin Historical Society | https://www.gorebaymuseum.com/ | ||
Ottawa | Eastern | Local history | including 19th and 20th century rural township life | http://www.goulbournmuseum.ca/ | ||
Golden Horseshoe | Aviation | Features flying replicas of World War I aircraft | https://greatwarflyingmuseum.org/ | |||
Grey County | Southwestern | Local history | Open air heritage village in summer | http://www.greyroots.com/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | http://www.ancasterhistory.ca/griffinHouse.php | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | travelling exhibitions and a collection of local artefacts | https://www.grimsby.ca/en/parks-recreation-culture/museum.aspx | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | non-profit public art gallery, featuring exhibitions of contemporary artwork | https://www.grimsby.ca/en/parks-recreation-culture/art-gallery.aspx | ||
Southwestern | Local history | Local and natural history | https://guelphmuseums.ca/venue/civic-museum/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Amusement | http://www.guinnessniagarafalls.com/ | |||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Local history | includes a streetcar, fire pumper, tugboat and caboose | https://www.facebook.com/haileyburyheritagemuseum/, http://www.haileyburyheritagemuseum.ca/ | ||
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | https://www.haldimandcounty.ca/heritage-culture/haldimand-county-museum-archives/ | |||
Central | Local history | includes local history museum, log barn and pioneer house | http://haliburtonhighlandsmuseum.com/ | |||
Central | Art | Outdoor sculpture park | http://www.haliburtonsculptureforest.ca/ | |||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Transport | Includes electric streetcars, other railway vehicles, trolleybusses and buses | https://hcry.org/ | ||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | https://www.halton.ca/The-Region/Heritage-Services | |||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Children's | interactive, hands-on galleries encouraging learning through self-directed play | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/hamilton-childrens-museum | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Military | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/dundurn-national-historic-site | |||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Technology | 19th century waterworks pumping station with two 45feet high, 70-ton steam engines | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/hamilton-museum-steam-technology-national-historic-site | ||
Wellington County | Southwestern | Media | radios designed and manufactured in Canada, early radio and wireless artifacts, receivers and transmitters | http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/ | ||
Hastings County | Central | Military | Regimental uniforms, history and memorabilia | https://www.theregiment.ca/museum/ | ||
Heritage House Museum | Lanark County | Eastern | Historic house | mid-19th century period Victorian home | https://www.smithsfalls.ca/experience/museums-history/heritage-house/ | |
Central | Education | 19th century schoolhouse museum | http://www.yrdsb.ca/schools/museum/Pages/default.aspx | |||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | History | History of the ruins of the 19th-century house | https://conservationhamilton.ca/hermitage-gatehouse/ | ||
Kawartha Lakes | Central | Media | small 5 screen movie theater and museum about movies, motion picture projectors and associated paraphernalia | http://www.highlandscinemas.com | ||
Golden Horseshoe | Medical | 19th-century house used as an office by three generations of doctors, features medical instruments, books, papers, household furnishings, and equipment dating from the early 19th to the late 20th century; operated by the Aurora Historical Society | https://aurorahs.com/ | |||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Prison | includes cell blocks, common areas, exercise yard and visitation area | https://www.cornwalljail.com/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Maritime | museum ship | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/haida | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Historic house | 1910-1920s period farmhouse | http://www.hochfarm.ca/farmhouse-museum.html | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | http://www.homerwatson.on.ca/ | |||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Historic house | 19th century stone house, one of Ontario’s oldest houses | https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/properties/homewood-museumnd,-near-Prescott%29.aspx | ||
Central | Automobile | early automobiles and truck, engines and other memorabilia | http://www.horselesscarriage.ca/ | |||
Parry Sound District | Northeastern | History | 1870s log schoolhouse with displays of pioneer history, also known as Seguin Township Museum | https://www.seguin.ca/en/explore-play/humphreymuseum.aspx | ||
Southwestern | Local history | furniture, agriculture, salt industry, area art and military displays | https://www.huroncountymuseum.ca/huron-county-museum/ | |||
Huron | Southwestern | Prison | County jail from 1841 until 1972, courtrooms and early 20th century period governor's house | https://www.huroncountymuseum.ca/huron-historic-gaol/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Multiple | Includes the 16th century period Huron Oendat Village, native art and archaeological collections, contemporary art gallery, local history and maritime exhibits, period room and general store displays | https://huroniamuseum.com/ | ||
Central | Living | operated by the Peterborough Historical Society, depicts 19th century life in Ontario | http://www.hutchisonhouse.ca/ | |||
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | History | local history and area's settlers, exhibits include mining, logging, farming, one-room schools, and the village's first church | |||
Ignace Tourist and Information Centre | Kenora District | Northwestern | Local history | also known as the Dennis Smyk Heritage Centre, features the history of the area | https://www.ignace.ca/visitors/visiting/museum-and-tourist-info-centre | |
Southwestern | History | includes replica 20th-century cheese factory, a barn, local sports hall of fame, a working blacksmith shop and the Ingersoll Community Museum | https://www.ingersoll.ca/cheese-and-agricultural-museum/ | |||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | homestead furnished for three periods: 1850s, 1890s and 1920s | https://museumsofburlington.ca/visitor-information/ireland-house-museum/ | ||
Iron Bridge Historical Museum | Algoma District | Northeastern | Local history | https://huronshores.ca/government/services/recreation-culture/museums/iron-bridge-historical-museum/ | ||
Cochrane District | Northeastern | Local history | https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Iroquois-Falls-Pioneer-Museum-557678680916361/ | |||
Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Agriculture | tractors, farm equipment and tools | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/jacksmuseum/ | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Aviation | Focus is Canadian Forces jet aircraft | http://www.jetaircraftmuseum.ca/ | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Open air | https://www.undergroundrailroadmuseum.org/ | |||
Essex County | Southwestern | Historic house | 1850s house and farm buildings | https://essexregionconservation.ca/location/john-r-park-homestead/ | ||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | reconstructed early 19th century home of Joseph Brant features local history exhibits | https://museumsofburlington.ca/visitor-information/joseph-brant-museum/ | ||
Ottawa | Eastern | Art | exhibits and promotes the sale of original works of art by its members | http://www.kanatagallery.ca/ | ||
Central | Art | http://kawarthagallery.com/home/ | ||||
Kawartha Lakes | Central | Open air | historic homes and buildings from 1830 to 1915 | http://www.settlersvillage.org | ||
Rainy River District | Northwestern | First Nations | Exhibits about the culture of the Ojibway people, tours of Manitou mounds | https://manitoumounds.com/ | ||
Prescott and Russell | Eastern | Local history | operated by the Russell Historical Society | http://www.russellmuseum.ca | ||
Killarney Museum | Northeastern | Local history | http://www.municipalityofkillarney.ca/facilities-ms | |||
Golden Horseshoe | Local history | Located in a historic railroad station and church | http://king.ca/LivingInKing/ParksRecreationCulture/CommunityandCulture/King%20Township%20Museum/Pages/default.aspx | |||
Essex County | Southwestern | Military | http://khpi.mnsi.net/ | |||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | emphasis is contemporary art | http://www.kwag.ca/ | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Railway | housed in a 19th-century Canadian National Railway station, railroad artifacts and memorabilia | http://www.komokarailmuseum.ca/ | ||
Northwestern | Local history | themes include First Nations, fur traders, pioneer life, area industries and development | https://themusekenora.ca/ | |||
Lambton County | Southwestern | Multiple | local history, pressed glass, agriculture equipment, antique vehicles and engines, late 19th century pioneer home, school and blacksmith shop | https://www.lambtonmuseums.ca/lambton-heritage-museum/ | ||
Lanark County | Eastern | Local history | https://www.facebook.com/LanarkDistrictMuseum | |||
Central | Living | 19th century pioneer village | https://www.langpioneervillage.ca/ | |||
Central | Art | contemporary art and education programs | http://www.latchamgallery.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | http://www.niagaraparks.com/heritage-trail/laura-secord-homestead.html | |||
Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives | Eastern | Local history | Operated by Lennox and Addington County | https://www.lennox-addington.on.ca/museum-archives | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | Depicts early lives of the Loyalists and Pennsylvania Mennonites, includes 1835 period historic house with textiles and weaving displays, and a 1908 period schoolhouse | https://lincoln.ca/heritage-culture/lincoln-museum-cultural-centrehttps://lincolnmuseum.ca/ | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Ethnic | collection and preservation of materials related to the lives, activities, history and culture of Lithuanians in Canada | http://www.klb.org/museum-archives/ | ||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Local history | local history and pioneer life in the area from the 1880s through the 1940s | http://www.claybeltmuseum.ca/ | ||
Little Schoolhouse and Museum | Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Local history | local history and one room school exhibits | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/museums/little_schoolhouse.htm | |
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Transportation | local history exhibits, history of the Rideau Canal, located in a historic lockmaster's house | http://www.rideau-info.com/lockhouse/museum.html | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Children's | https://www.londonchildrensmuseum.ca/ | |||
Prescott and Russell | Eastern | Prison | Tours of the prison built in the 1820s and decommissioned in 1998 | https://www.lorignalprison.com/home | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Military | Regimental memorabilia | http://www.lornesmuseum.ca/ | ||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Open air | Features buildings, photos and memorabilia of The Lost Villages; complex includes a general store, train station, log house, barber shop, school, church and home | https://lostvillages.ca/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Wax | full-size figures of celebrities, historic figures and movie characters | https://www.ripleys.com/niagarafalls/attractions/wax/ | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Local history | exhibits feature area settlers and the infamous Donnelly tragedy | https://www.donnellymuseum.com/about-us | ||
Lynde House Museum and Warren General Store | Durham County | Central | Gardens and local history | https://www.lyndehousemuseum.com/ | ||
Macaulay Heritage Park | Central | Historic house | includes 1850s period home, historic church with local history museum | https://www.thecounty.ca/county-government/departments/museums/about-us/macaulay-heritage-park/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Media | reconstructed home of rebel publisher William Lyon Mackenzie, displays of 500 years of printing technology | http://www.mackenzieprintery.org/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Technology | 19th century life and technology, especially woodworking | https://www.woodworkingmuseum.ca/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Art | mostly contemporary art exhibits, with a replica of Rodin's The Thinker outside | https://maclarenart.com/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | History | Catholic Christian community, includes the Pioneer Museum with historic tools, household items and agriculture equipment | http://www.madonnahouse.org/ | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Local history | includes a collection of WW1 Naval and Army artifacts, and exhibits of Rum Running, the War of 1812 and others | http://www.maidstonemuseum.com/ | ||
Prescott and Russell | Eastern | Historic house | owned by Ontario Heritage Trust, operated by the Friends of the Macdonell-Williamson House, early 19th-century house | http://www.mwhouse.ca/ | ||
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Local history | http://www.marathonmuseum.ca/ | |||
Central | Biographical | home of actress Marie Dressler, small museum | https://www.mariedressler.ca/dressler-house | |||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Maritime | Exhibits include shipbuilding, boat building, shipping, life of a sailor, marine art, natural history and ecology of the Great Lakes, and the museum ship CCGS Alexander Henry | http://www.marmuseum.ca/ | ||
Mariners Park Museum | Central | Open air | Artifacts include many from more than 50 shipwrecks in the area | https://www.visitthecounty.com/business_listings/mariners-park-museum/ | ||
Central | Open air | Buildings include houses, barns, sheds, train station, schoolhouse, general store, church, blacksmith, harness shop, saw mill and cider mill | https://www.markham.ca/wps/portal/home/arts/markham-museum/ | |||
Nipissing District | Northeastern | Forestry | Features a replica 19th-century logging camp | https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/martenriver | ||
Central | Local history | also known as the Fenelon Museum | http://www.maryboro.ca/ | |||
Northeastern | Local history | includes early 20th century general store display, First Nations artifacts, period rooms, lumbering, farming, mining and mineral displays | http://www.masseyareamuseum.com/ | |||
Kenora District | Northwestern | Historic house | turn-of-the-20th-century period house, owned by Ontario Heritage Trust, operated in the summer by the Lake of the Woods Historical Society | http://visitnorthwestontario.com/attractions/kenora-mather-walls-house/, https://www.facebook.com/MatherWallsTeaHouse/ | ||
Nipissing District | Northeastern | Local history | operated by the Mattawa and District Historical Society | http://mattawamuseum.com/ | ||
Wellington County | Southwestern | Historic house | Late 19th century period home of poet John McCrae | https://guelphmuseums.ca/venue/mccrae-house/ | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | mid-19th-century Scottish labourer's home | https://www.mcdougallcottage.ca/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Local history | located in a former stone grist mill | http://www.renfrewmuseum.ca/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | early 19th century period house | http://www.niagaraparks.com/heritage-trail/mcfarland-house.html | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Art | http://mcintoshgallery.ca/ | |||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Part of McMaster University, changing exhibits of historical, modern and contemporary art in five galleries | https://museum.mcmaster.ca/ | ||
York Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Features paintings by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, and First Nations and Inuit artists | https://mcmichael.com/ | ||
Grey County | Southwestern | Local history | https://www.meaford.ca/en/explore-play/meaford-museum.aspx | |||
Lanark County | Eastern | Local history | located in an 1860s stone school house | http://www.middlevillemuseum.org/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Military | History of military communications | https://www.candemuseum.org/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Natural history | part of Queen's University, rocks, minerals, fossils, area geology | https://www.queensu.ca/millermuseumofgeology/home | ||
Chatham-Kent | Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Historic house | turn-of-the-20th-century lifestyle of a successful industrialist and his family | https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/milner-heritage-house | |
Haliburton County | Central | Multiple | https://mindenhills.ca/minden-hills-cultural-centre-home/ | |||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Multiple | local history and art | http://www.missionhousemuseum.com/ | ||
Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Maritime | https://mississagilighthouse.ca/ | |||
Eastern | Textiles | history of the area's textile industry, modern fiber arts exhibits, textile processes and equipment | https://mvtm.ca/ | |||
Modern Fuel | Frontenac County | Eastern | Art | artist-run contemporary art centre | http://www.modernfuel.org/ | |
Lambton County | Southwestern | Open air | http://www.mooremuseum.ca includes local history exhibits, church, school, fire hall, log cabin, railroad station, Victoria cottage, agriculture hall, blacksmith shop | http://www.mooremuseum.ca | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Open air | includes historic working grist mill, turbine shed, blacksmith shop, millers house, icehouse, sawmill and barn | http://www.morningstarmill.ca/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Wax | Entertainment history | http://www.cliftonhill.com/niagara_falls_attractions/movieland_wax_museum/?src=NFT07208 | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Military | mid-19th century martello tower with period exhibits | http://www.kingstonhistoricalsociety.ca/the-murney-tower/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Science | https://www.pembroke.ca/tourism/museums/murray-l-moore-hydro-museum.html | |||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Sports | At the Sir Harry Oakes Chateau, exhibits of the inner workings of some of the richest mines in Canadian history | http://www.museumkl.com/ | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Multiple | Art and local history | http://www.museumlondon.ca/ | ||
Dufferin County | Central | Multiple | local history exhibits, reconstructed 1918 pioneer home, art exhibits, collectibles | http://www.dufferinmuseum.com/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Medical | Nursing and history of health care | https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/ | ||
Timiskaming District | Northeastern | Multiple | Located in the Sir Harry Oakes Chateau, owned by Ontario Heritage Trust, historic house with exhibits about Harry Oakes and area mining, local history, area wildlife and local art exhibits | http://museumkl.com/ | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Archaeology | Part of the University of Western Ontario, Ontario's prehistoric past, adjacent reconstructed Neutral Nation village | http://archaeologymuseum.ca/ | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Medical | Part of the University of Waterloo, history of vision science, housed in the School of Optometry | https://uwaterloo.ca/optometry-vision-science/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Local history | includes 1851 log cabin and an 1858 English barn with agriculture equipment | https://www.newtecumseth.ca/en/parks-recreation-and-culture/museum-on-the-boyne.aspx | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Local history | located in 34 Frank which is also home to Strathroy Public Library and The Art Space gallery | http://www.strathroymuseum.ca/ | ||
City of Kawartha Lakes | Central | Art | housed in a restored Victorian general store, the MTA is a museum of the imagination including collage, painting, evolving installations and found object assemblages | http://museumoftemporaryart.com | ||
Central | Maritime | includes history of area steamships, wooden boats and luxury hotels, antique and wooden boat models, toys and Muskoka memorabilia | https://realmuskoka.com/discovery-centre/ | |||
Muskoka | Central | Multiple | includes the Muskoka Museum, Muskoka Pioneer Village and the Huntsville & Lake of Bays Railway Society's Portage Flyer Train | http://www.muskokaheritageplace.ca | ||
Muskoka | Central | Local history | https://mlmuseum.com/ | |||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | operated by the Brant Historical Society, restored 1837 homestead with furnishings from 140 years of family life | http://brantmuseum.ca/myrtleville-house-museum/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Military | includes artifacts from the 18th century schooner HMS Nancy, exhibits on the War of 1812 and a lighthouse | https://www.wasagabeachpark.com/nancy-island-historic-site/ | ||
Lanark County | Eastern | Biographical | http://www.naismithmuseum.com/ | |||
Hastings County | Central | Aviation | Formerly known as the RCAF Memorial Museum, Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft and artifacts | http://www.airforcemuseum.ca/ | ||
Ottawa | Eastern | Local history | https://ottawa.ca/en/arts-heritage-and-events/museums-and-historic-sites/nepean-museum | |||
Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Maritime | seafaring and fishing history of the region | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/museums/netshed_museum.htm | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Medical | owned by Ontario Heritage Trust, operated by the Ontario College of Pharmacists, a restored 1869 pharmacy | http://www.niagaraapothecary.ca/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | artist-run contemporary art centre | http://www.nac.org/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | activities for children's imaginations | http://www.niagarachildrensmuseum.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | http://www.niagarafallsartgallery.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | https://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/visit/niagara-falls-history-museum.aspx | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | http://www.nhsm.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Military | https://niagaramilitaryheritagecentre.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Art | features regional art | http://www.niagarapumphouse.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Scouting | contains a display of badges, uniforms, and other items related to Scouting | http://wj55.org/Museum.php | |||
Nipissing Township Museum | Parry Sound District | Northeastern | Local history | includes pioneer artifacts, reconstructed homes, log church | https://nipissingtownship.com/services/museum-services-and-information/ | |
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Aviation | history of the No.6 Service Flying Training School in WW II | http://www.rcafmuseum.org/ | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | Art | also known as Lynnwood National Historic Site, located in the 1851 Lynnwood House | http://www.norfolkartscentre.ca | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | Historic house | Victorian period house, also gallery of local art and history | https://www.nca-ebdm.ca/ | ||
Southwestern | Local history | http://www.northhuron.ca/visitors.php?area=THINGS&cid=4&aid=10 | ||||
Lanark County | Eastern | Local history | includes replicas of a country store and a pioneer log cabin | http://www.northlanarkregionalmuseum.com/ | ||
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Railway | Railroad cars, equipment, artifacts and memorabilia | http://www.normhc.ca/ | ||
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Sports | sports heritage of Northwestern Ontario | https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/ | ||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | History | https://www.glengarrynorwestersandloyalistmuseum.ca/ | |||
Southwestern | Open air | includes 1889 Quaker Meeting House, a blacksmith shop, an 1830s saltbox farmhouse, a turn-of-the-20th-century Quaker schoolhouse, and two barns with agricultural and dairy farming displays and equipment | http://www.norwichdhs.ca/ | |||
Hastings County | Central | Open air | includes 19th century saw mill, 1850 period house, carpenter shop, blacksmith shop, storage sheds, schoolhouse, covered bridge, period livestock barn, mill pond and walking trails and log house | http://www.oharamill.ca/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | View the mansion's restored Great Hall reception area, the dining room and the living room, and a collection of Niagara Falls art | https://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/discover-our-history/history-notes/oakhall.aspx | ||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | historic estate and grounds with local history exhibits | https://www.oakville.ca/museum/ | ||
Lambton County | Southwestern | Industry | petroleum industry artifacts, site of the first commercial oil well in North America | https://www.lambtonmuseums.ca/oil/ | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Education | 19th century one room schoolhouse | http://www.britanniaschoolhousefriends.org/ | ||
Central | History | local and Canadian history set in a jail building dating back to the 1860s, operated by the Victoria County Historical Society | http://www.oldegaolmuseum.ca | |||
Old Mill Heritage Centre and Post Office Museum | Manitoulin District | Northeastern | Multiple | includes the Kagawong Museum with exhibits on local history, agriculture, military, early sawmills, commercial shipping and fishing, a historic post office museum display, and an art gallery | http://www.manitoulin-island.com/museums/transportation_museum.htm | |
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Mill | 1810 stone grist mill and adjacent Museum of Industrial Technology with exhibits of early industries of the region including early agricultural equipment | http://www.deltamill.org/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | First Nations | http://www.thealgonquinway.ca | |||
Simcoe County | Central | Law enforcement | http://www.opp.ca/museum/ | |||
Central | Military | History of The Ontario Regiment (RCAC), includes uniforms, over 80 military vehicles, medals, arms and photographs | http://www.ontrmuseum.ca/tankmuseum/ | |||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Sports | http://www.originalhockeyhalloffame.com/ | |||
Simcoe County | Central | Multiple | art and local history | http://www.orilliamuseum.org/ | ||
Central | Historic house | Includes late 19th century Victorian Henry House, local history exhibits | http://www.oshawamuseum.org/ | |||
Ottawa | Eastern | Local history | https://www.osgoodemuseum.ca/ | |||
Grey County | Southwestern | Transport | housed in a Canadian former National Railway Station on the Owen Sound waterfront, focus is the area's maritime, rail and industrial past | http://waterfrontheritage.ca/wordpress/ | ||
Southwestern | Local history | https://www.walkerhousekincardine.com/ | ||||
Wellington County | Railroad | https://palmerstonrailwaymuseum.ca/ | ||||
Essex County | Southwestern | Historic house | 1850s period house and local history exhibits | https://www.parkhousemuseum.com/ | ||
Central | Historic house | Early 20th-century mansion and estate gardens | https://www.parkwoodestate.com/ | |||
County of Brant | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | archives the heritage of Paris, Ontario and the surrounding area | https://www.theparismuseum.com/ | ||
Peel Region | Golden Horseshoe | Multiple | Local history museum, art gallery | http://pama.peelregion.ca/ | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Multiple | local history and natural history | http://www.peleeislandmuseum.ca/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Local history | http://www.pencenmuseum.com/ | |||
Lanark County | Eastern | Military | https://www.hallofremembrance.ca/ | |||
Perth Museum (Matheson House) | Lanark County | Eastern | Local history | Includes four 19th century period rooms of the Roderick Matheson house | https://www.perth.ca/en/explore-perth/Museum.aspx | |
Renfrew County | Eastern | Forestry | forestry and natural history exhibits, demonstration forest | https://friendsoftheprf.com/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Living | mid-19th century rural Ontario village | http://www.petawawaheritagevillage.com/ | ||
Peterborough County | Central | Transportation | https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=486 | |||
Central | Local History | focus on history local to the Peterborough area | https://www.peterborough.ca/en/explore-and-play/museum-and-archives.aspx | |||
Peterborough County | Central | First Nations | History and spiritual significance of the park's petroglyphs | http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/petroglyphs | ||
Lambton County | Southwestern | Industry | early days of the boom of the petroleum industry | http://www.petroliadiscovery.com/ | ||
Central | Open air | 19th century village | https://www.pickering.ca/en/discovering/pickering-museum-village.aspx | |||
Ottawa | Eastern | Historic house | 19th century estate home and park | http://www.pinheyspoint.ca/ | ||
Cochrane District | Northeastern | Open air | includes the Hunta Museum with period business displays and antiques, the Cochrane Classic Riders Snowmobile Museum, a blacksmith shop, doctor's office, farm house, general store, service station and schoolhouse | https://canadianpolarbearhabitat.com/ | ||
Elgin County | Southwestern | Maritime | Lighthouse, area maritime and shipbuilding history | http://www.elginhistoricalsociety.ca/content/port-burwell-marine-museum-historic-lighthouse | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Open air | includes historic houses, blacksmith shop, a lighthouse with maritime exhibits, historic vehicles, two mid-19th century log houses | http://www.portcolborne.ca/page/museum | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | Maritime | local fishing industry, shipping, sailing, shipwrecks and maritime heritage | http://www.portdovermuseum.ca | ||
Central | Maritime | Includes the Lighthouse Interpretive Centre and a nature centre | http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/presquile | |||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Local history | https://www.facebook.com/PrinceTownshipMuseum/ | |||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Military | history and artifacts of The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment, located in the armoury | http://pwor.ca/museum/ | ||
Oxford County | Southwestern | Local history | local history and art exhibits | http://www.princetonmuseum.net/ | ||
Northumberland | Central | Historic house | http://www.proctorhousemuseum.ca/ | |||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Technology | former water pumping station, exhibits on engines, railroads, steam launch boat and science | https://www.kingstonpumphouse.ca/ | ||
Lanark County | Eastern | Art | http://mvc.on.ca/who-was-robert-tait-mckenzie/ | |||
Cochrane District | Northeastern | History | http://www.moosonee.ca/tourism/ | |||
Central | Art | located in Haliburton's rail station, featuring contemporary Canadian art, craft and music by local and regional artists | http://www.railsendgallery.com/ | |||
Lanark County | Eastern | Railway | Historic railway station with railroad locomotives, cars, artifacts and memorabilia | http://rmeo.org/ | ||
Rainy River District Women's Institute Museum | Rainy River District | Northwestern | Local history | local history and pioneer life | http://www.museumsontario.ca/museum/Rainy-River-District-Women-s-I | |
Rainy River Railroad Heritage Museum | Rainy River District | Northwestern | Railway | exhibits displayed inside a restored railway passenger car, also features a caboose, restored steam engine and local history exhibits | https://web.archive.org/web/20100116001156/http://www.rainyriver.ca/attractions.html | |
Raisin River Heritage Centre | Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Local history | operated by the Cornwall Township Historical Society | http://www.cornwalltwphistorical.ca/ | |
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Local history | Operated by Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums, local history, agriculture, culture | http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/index.cfm?app=w_vmuseum&lang=en&currID=1375&parID=1371 | ||
Kenora District | Northwestern | Local history | themes include Aboriginal history, gold mining, fur trade, immigration, art exhibits | http://www.redlakemuseum.com/ | ||
Huron | Southwestern | Art | changing exhibits of early 20th century photographs | https://www.facebook.com/pg/SallowsGallery/about/?ref=page_internal | ||
Central | Local history | Exhibits in an 1840s period cottage | https://www.richmondhill.ca/en/find-or-learn-about/Richmond-Hill-Heritage-Centre.aspx | |||
Lanark County | Eastern | Transportation | canal history and heritage | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/rideau/activ/accueil_info | ||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Local history | https://rideaudistrictmuseum.webs.com/ | |||
Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Historic house | 1875 period historic house | https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/ridge-house-museum | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Amusement | https://www.ripleys.com/niagarafalls/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | Historic house with 18th- and 19th-century Canadian paintings, sculpture and decorative art | http://riverbrink.org/ | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | operated by the Wilfrid Laurier University, focus is contemporary Canadian art | https://www.wlu.ca/academics/library/robert-langen-art-gallery/ | ||
Central | Art | Focus is modern and contemporary Canadian art | http://rmg.on.ca/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Wax | https://web.archive.org/web/20190901102619/http://www.rocklegendswaxmuseum.com/ | |||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | http://www.brocku.ca/rodmanhall/ | |||
Cochrane District | Northeastern | Railroad | housed in a steam locomotive, two passenger cars and a caboose, railroad artifacts and model railroad display, also local history exhibits | http://www.kapuskasing.ca/en/playing/Galleries-and-Museum.aspx | ||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | First Nations | https://www.nnatc.org/ | |||
Rose House Museum | Central | Historic house | early 19th-century house with furnishings from 5 generations | https://www.thecounty.ca/county-government/departments/museums/about-us/rose-house-museum/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | History | includes period room and business displays, household items, farming tools, logging equipment | http://www.rossmuseum.ca/ | ||
Golden Horseshoe | Art | https://www.kitchener.ca/en/things-to-do/rotunda-gallery.aspx | ||||
Golden Horseshoe | Natural history | Features exhibits about plants, nature and science | https://www.rbg.ca/ | |||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Military | http://pembrokelegionbr72.ca/museum | |||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Military | Regimental history and artifacts | http://www.thercrmuseum.ca/ | ||
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Military | Regimental history, open by appointment | http://www.rhli.ca/archives/museum/museum.html | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Military | Located in Fort Frederick, history of the college and the naval history of the site | https://www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/museum/rmc-museum | ||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Local history | ||||
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | 19th-century mansion estate | http://www.ruthvenpark.ca/ | ||
Simcoe County | Central | Living | Recreated 17th-century French Jesuit mission headquarters and Wendat Huron inhabitants | http://www.saintemarieamongthehurons.on.ca/ | ||
Sarah Jane Williams Heritage Centre | Central | Local history | operated by the Clarington Museums, features exhibits about Dominion Organ and Piano Company, a large doll and toy collection, and changing history exhibits | http://www.claringtonmuseums.com/sarah-jane-williams-heritage-centre/ | ||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Local history | facilitated by the Sault Ste. Marie & 49th Field Regiment R.C.A. Historical Society | http://www.saultmuseum.com/ | ||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Transport | Visitor center, guided tours of the canal locks | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/ssmarie | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | Early 19th century period homestead | https://www.schneiderhaus.ca/ | ||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Local history | http://www.bright-ideas-software.com/schoolhouse/ | |||
School On Wheels Railcar Museum | Huron | Southwestern | Education | historic school car that traveled the region to bring education to children | http://www.schoolcar.ca/ | |
Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Science | focuses on geological sciences | https://www.sciencenorth.ca/ | ||
Frontenac County | Eastern | Scouting | scouting artifacts from the 1920s to 2000 | https://scoutmuseumkingston.ca/ | ||
Central | Open air | mid-to-late 19th century village, Ojibway Heritage Interpretive Lands about the natural and cultural history of the Scugog Watershed prior to European settlement | https://www.scugog.ca/en/live-and-play/Scugog-Shores-Museum-Village.aspx | |||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | Military | http://secretsofradar.com/ | |||
Southwestern | Local History | Features artifacts from Serbia, mainly from Serbian diaspora in the region. | http://www.serbianheritagemuseum.com/ | |||
Golden Horseshoe | Open air | Story of the Children of Peace and the early settlers of East Gwillimbury; features the Sharon Temple (1825–1832), the Doan House (1819), David Willson's Study (1829), an 1850s Log House and other buildings on 4.5 acres of park land; operated by the Sharon Temple Museum Society | https://www.sharontemple.ca/ | |||
Grey County | Southwestern | History | early Black pioneer families | https://www.sheffieldparkblackhistory.com/ | ||
Central | Local history | Features the Sibbald Memorial Museum, a historic house and local history museum (summer months only) | https://www.enjoyontario.ca/sibbald-point/photos/100_0091.html | |||
Eastern | Local history, Historic Bldg. | Cobourg history told in annually changing exhibits and outdoor model railway - Victoria Day weekend to Thanksgiving | http://www.cobourgmuseum.ca/ | |||
Simcoe County | Central | Local history | local history and culture, church, schoolhouse, railway station, farm equipment | https://museum.simcoe.ca/ | ||
Sioux Lookout Museum | Kenora District | Northwestern | Local history | located on the second floor of the Sioux Lookout Heritage Railway Station | https://www.siouxlookout.ca/en/discover-the-hub/museum.asp | |
Sir John Johnson Manor House | Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Historic house | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/johnjohnson | ||
Middlesex County | Southwestern | First Nations | recreated longhouse village of 1,000 years ago and museum with archaeological artifacts | https://www.lowerthames-conservation.on.ca/conservation-lands/longwoods-road-conservation-area-ska-nah-doht-village-museum/ | ||
Southwestern | Aviation | located at Goderich Airport, airport history in WW II, county aviation history | ||||
Renfrew County | Eastern | Nuclear Science and Technology | Canadian nuclear history from Ernest Rutherford to the present, including: research and development; CANDU; medical and isotope applications; mining; radioactive waste management; and accelerators amongst others | http://www.nuclearheritage.ca | ||
Sombra Museum Cultural Centre | Lambton County | Southwestern | Local history | includes Victorian period home and log cabin | http://sombramuseum.webs.com/ | |
Grey County | Southwestern | Local history | http://www.southgreymuseum.ca/ | |||
Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | operated by the Bronte Historical Society, 19th century period house | https://www.brontehistoricalsociety.ca/sovereign-house/ | ||
Leeds and Grenville | Eastern | Mill | stone grist mill and gardens | http://www.spencervillemill.ca/ | ||
Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Multiple | city's history, history and impact of the Welland Canal, Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum, the Underground Railroad and African Canadian heritage | https://www.stcatharines.ca/en/St-Catharines-Museum.asp# | ||
Southwestern | History | local and maritime history, also late 19th century log house open by request | https://tobermory.com/do-see/arts-culture/museums-culture-history/item/104-st-edmunds-township-museum | |||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Multiple | includes the Maple Syrup Museum, St. Jacobs Quilt Gallery, electricity exhibit, Home Hardware exhibit, model train exhibit | http://www.stjacobs.com/exhibits-galleries | ||
Algoma District | Northeastern | Open air | complex includes a log cabin, church, school, barn, store | http://www.stjoemuseum.com/ | ||
St. Joseph Museum | Huron | Southwestern | Local history | operated by the St. Joseph Historical Society | http://stjosephmuseum.ca/about-us/ | |
Perth County | Southwestern | Local history | http://www.stmarysmuseum.ca/ | |||
Elgin County | Southwestern | Art | http://www.stepac.ca/ | |||
Central | Local history | features pioneer history and artifacts, and includes a log chute | http://www.stanhopemuseum.on.ca/ | |||
Simcoe County | Central | Historic house | summer home of author and humorist Stephen Leacock, includes exhibits on his life and writings, and a gallery of Canadian writers and art | https://www.orillia.ca/en/visiting/leacock-museum.aspx | ||
Lambton County | Southwestern | Natural history | fossils, minerals, gemstones, artifacts, shells, butterflies, insects, antlers, horns, dinosaurs | http://www.stonesnbones.ca/ | ||
Perth County | Southwestern | Local history | http://www.stratfordperthmuseum.ca/ | |||
Nipissing District | Northeastern | Local history | Includes fur trading, pioneers, blacksmith shop and ice house | http://www.westnipissing.ca/en/visiting/arts-culture/sturgeon-falls-river-house-museum | ||
Ottawa | Eastern | Military | Focus is the Citizen Soldier (the Militiaman and Reservist) at peace and at war, features many military trucks and vehicles | http://museum.calnan.com/ | ||
Sudbury Region Police Museum | Greater Sudbury | Northeastern | Law enforcement | https://www.gsps.ca/en/jobs-and-opportunities/museum-volunteer.aspx | ||
Norfolk County | Southwestern | History | complex includes a log house, smoke house, wayside church, drive barn and early Windham and area artifacts | http://www.teetervillemuseum.ca | ||
Thames Art Gallery | Chatham-Kent | Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Art | https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/thames-art-gallery | |
Thames Valley Museum School | Southwestern | Education | early 20th century rural schoolhouse | https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=11828 | ||
Thamesville Old Town Hall Museum | Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Local history | |||
Thelma Miles Historical Museum | Cochrane District | Northeastern | Local history | https://www.blackriver-matheson.com/museum-p60.php | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Multiple | Formerly the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum, interactive exhibits for children, changing exhibits of culture, art, history, science | https://themuseum.ca/ | ||
Thomas House (Oakville, Ontario) | Halton Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | 1830-1840s period pioneer home, operated by the Oakville Historical Society | https://www.oakvillehistory.org/the-thomas-house.html | |
Thorold Museum | Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | features the Lock 7 Viewing Centre | https://thoroldmuseum.ca/ | |
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Art | Contemporary First Nations art | https://theag.ca/ | ||
Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Local history | https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/ | |||
Thunder Bay Military Museum | Thunder Bay District | Northwestern | Military | http://army.ca/inf/lssrmus.php | ||
Timber Village Museum | Algoma District | Northeastern | Forestry | lumbering and logging tools, artifacts and equipment | http://www.blindriver.ca/cms/One.aspx?portalId=73377&pageId=117478 | |
Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre | Cochrane District | Northeastern | Multiple | local history and art, recreated 1930's miner's home | http://www.timminsmuseum.ca/ | |
Tom Thomson Art Gallery | Grey County | Southwestern | Art | features a large collection of memorabilia and works from Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven | https://www.owensound.ca/en/tomthomson.aspx | |
Southwestern | History | antiques and collectibles, tools, household items, lamps, machinery, glassware, crockery, furniture | https://paisleyvillage.ca/places/see-and-do/treasure-chest-museum/ | |||
Tree Museum | Central | Art | outdoor sculpture gallery | http://www.thetreemuseum.ca | ||
Wentworth County | Southern | Art | features original art and limited edition prints by artist-musicians including David Bowie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and many others. Located in and operated by the owners of True North Records | http://truenorth.gallery/ | ||
Tweed and Area Heritage Centre | Hastings County | Central | Local history | |||
Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Open air | Complex includes home of Josiah Henson, former U.S. slave whose life story was the inspiration for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin | https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/properties/uncle-toms-cabin | ||
Union Gallery | Frontenac County | Eastern | Art | part of Queen's University, contemporary art | http://uniongallery.queensu.ca/ | |
United Empire Loyalist Heritage Centre | Eastern | History | history of the United Empire Loyalist settlers in the late 18th century | http://uel.ca/ | ||
University of Waterloo Art Galleries | Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Art | https://uwaterloo.ca/fine-arts/campus-art-galleries | ||
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry | Eastern | Living | 1860s period village with over 40 buildings | http://www.uppercanadavillage.com/ | ||
Uxbridge Historical Centre | Central | Local history | http://www.uxbridgehistoricalcentre.com/ | |||
Vankleek Hill Museum | Prescott and Russell | Eastern | Local history | operated by the Vankleek Hill & District Historical Society | http://www.vankleek.ca/ | |
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington | Central | Art | http://www.vac.ca/ | |||
Waba Cottage Museum and Gardens | Renfrew County | Eastern | Historic house | belongings of Archibald McNab, the founder of McNab Township, with historic log church and schoolhouse | http://www3.sympatico.ca/jsktyrrell/museum.html | |
Chatham-Kent | Southwestern | Local history | https://wallaceburgmuseum.ca/ | |||
Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum | Norfolk County | Southwestern | Local history | social history of Waterford and Old Townsend as well as Norfolk County agriculture | http://www.waterfordmuseum.ca/ | |
Waterloo County Gaol and Governor's House | Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic site | former jail and governor's house with historic and archaeological exhibits in the lobby | https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=9216 | |
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | https://www.waterlooregionmuseum.ca/ | |||
Ottawa | Eastern | Mill | 19th century flour grist mill | http://watsonsmill.com/ | ||
Waverley Place | Central | Historic house | Formerly the Bowmanville Museum. A 1900-1930 period home reflecting the lifestyle of a wealthy merchant family, operated by the Clarington Museums | https://claringtonmuseums.com/waverley-place/ | ||
Welland Historical Museum | Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | located in a former Carnegie library building | http://www.wellandmuseum.ca/ | |
Wellington County | Southwestern | Multiple | local history, decorative arts and art | https://www.wellington.ca/en/museum-and-archives.aspx | ||
Wellington Heritage Museum | Central | Local history | https://www.thecounty.ca/county-government/departments/museums/about-us/wellington-heritage-museum/ | |||
West Parry Sound District Museum | Parry Sound District | Northeastern | Local history | also known as Museum on Tower Hill, local history, themes include trapping, First Nations, shipping, logging, agriculture and cottaging, features a fire tower to climb | http://www.museumontowerhill.com/ | |
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Open air | Over 30 historic buildings on a 3.4 square kilometres (840 acres) site | https://westfieldheritage.ca/ | ||
Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum | Central | History | complex includes an 1880s period farmhouse, 19th century schoolhouse, log cabin, and local history museum | http://www.townofws.ca/en/explore/museum.aspx | ||
White Water Gallery | Nipissing District | Northeastern | Art | contemporary visual art | http://www.whitewatergallery.com/ | |
Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | mid-19th century urban estate with elements from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian periods | https://www.hamilton.ca/attractions/hamilton-civic-museums/whitehern-historic-house-garden-national-historic-site | ||
Wilberforce Red Cross Outpost & Historic House | Central | Medical | site of the first Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Ontario | http://www.redcrossoutpost.org/ | ||
Willoughby Historical Museum | Niagara Region | Golden Horseshoe | Local history | http://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/visit/willoughby-historical-museum.aspx | ||
Wilno Heritage Park | Renfrew County | Eastern | Ethnic | includes the Polish Kashub Heritage Museum & Skansen, Kashubian and Polish heritage | http://www.wilno.org/museum.html | |
Haldimand County | Golden Horseshoe | Education | https://www.haldimandcounty.ca/heritage-culture/wilson-macdonald-memorial-school-museum/ | |||
Essex County | Southwestern | Art | Outdoor sculpture park | https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Culture/Windsor-Sculpture-Park/Pages/Windsor-Sculpture-Park.aspx | ||
Essex County | Southwestern | Local history | Located downtown in the François Baby House, features artifacts and documents important to the history of Windsor and Essex County | https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/culture/windsors-community-museum/ | ||
Windsor Wood Carving Museum | Essex County | Southwestern | Art | carved wood art (possibly closed) | http://www.windsorwoodcarvingmuseum.ca/ | |
Central | Historic house | Late 19th century octagon house with local history exhibits | https://www.bracebridge.ca/en/explore/woodchester-.aspx# | |||
Woodland Cultural Centre | County of Brant | First Nations | history, culture and art of the Anishinaabe and Onkwehon:we | https://woodlandculturalcentre.ca/ | ||
Waterloo Region | Golden Horseshoe | Historic house | https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/woodside | |||
Woodstock Art Gallery | Southwestern | History | https://www.cityofwoodstock.ca/en/live-and-play/wag.aspx | |||
Woodstock Museum | Southwestern | Local history | https://www.cityofwoodstock.ca/en/live-and-play/woodstock-museum.aspx | |||
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre | Hamilton | Golden Horseshoe | Multiple | art, culture and heritage of working people in Canada | http://www.wahc-museum.ca/ | |
Youngtown Rock N Roll Museum | Central | Music | celebration of music from the '50s, '60s and '70s, with large collection of Neil Young and Beatles memorabilia | http://www.youngtownmuseum.com/ | ||