FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Thursday, May 15, 2018)

Huronia Museum is pleased to announce a Community Collections Stewardship Project in partnership with the Midland Sports Hall of Fame and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 80 Museum

Huronia Museum will be working closely with the volunteers of both the Midland Sports Hall of Fame and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 80 museum to bring museum standard practices to the management and care of these important community collections.

The museum will work cooperatively with the Midland Sports Hall of Fame and the Royal Canadian Legion Museum, Branch 80 to manage their collections which are held in public trust by these institutions.  The Huronia Museum does not wish to acquire the collections but to help these organizations to steward these collections, applying standard museum methodologies and policies, to ensure the longevity and safety of these important collections for the community.  Volunteers at both organizations will work alongside museum staff to learn standard museum practices of accessioning, cataloguing, managing a collections database and writing basic condition reports.

Huronia Museum has sought an opportunity to provide the resources for these organization for many years.  These organizations were successful in achieving the funding for this project through Heritage Canada’s Museums Assistance program.

The Ogemawahj Tribal Council is partnering with these organizations to provide staffing to the project and assist with the massive task of cataloguing and processing these collections.  This significant contribution of staffing the project will provide an opportunity for employment within the Ogemawahj Tribal Council communities and ensure that the these collections are processed in their entirety.

Huronia Museum looks forward to working with all three partners over the next year and sharing the museum’s services and skills to preserve these important community collections.

For further information on Huronia Museum and its special events please contact the Huronia Museum at 705-526-2844

Huronia Museum is a not-for-profit charity, which collects, preserves, exhibits and educates on the history of Huronia.

Contact information:
Huronia Museum
549 Little Lake Park Road,
Midland, ON L4R 4P4
705-526-2844

http://www.huroniamuseum.com

 

 

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Oral History Project DVD Launch of “The Four Jewels of Georgian Bay”

The communities of Midland, Penetanguishene, Tiny Township and Tay Township came together with Newfoundland  film documentarian, Hugh Dimaline, in 2014 to capture the stories of people and places from North Simcoe in a DVD set for the community to share amongst themselves and with newcomers to the region.  Four years in production, the resulting DVD entitled, “The Four Jewels of Georgian Bay” will be unveiled at a special evening which will bring together the over 100 people interviewed for this project.

Penetanguishene Centennial Museum and Huronia Museum are especially pleased that all of the interview material, uncut and unedited, will become a permanent part of their respective archives for future researchers and historians.

The four communities are invited to come together to launch the DVD “The Four Jewels of Georgian Bay” at the Huronia Museum on Friday, May 25^th.  Midland, Tiny Township, Tay Township and Penetanguishene are all featured in this brand new Newfound History Films project for the cost of $20 per copy.

The evening event will take place on Friday, May 25^th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and will include light snacks and a cash bar. This event is FREE and is sponsored by Heritage Tiny Township, Heritage Tay Township, Heritage Midland, Heritage Penetanguishene, Culture Midland, Huronia Museum and Penetanguishene Centennial Museum & Archives.

For more information, please contact the museum at (705) 526-2844.

The event will take place on Saturday, February 6th at 2:00 p.m. with a formal talk followed by a book signing and reception.

For more information, please contact the museum at 705-549-2150.

For media requiring additional information, please contact:

Huronia Museum
549 Little Lake Park Road
Midland ON L4R 4P4