Robert Munsch Exhibit Closes with Weekend Festival

GUELPH, ON, October 28, 2014: Guelph Museums is hosting MunschFest on Saturday, November 8, and Sunday, November 9, to mark the close of the Much More Munsch exhibition. Visitors will…

Saints Preserve Us: In Conversation with Debbie Thompson Wilson

Saints Preserve Us is a Guelph Museums exhibit featuring Debbie Thompson Wilson’s miniature paintings of the saints who lent their names to Guelph’s schools, churches, streets and organizations. It opens…

What is it? (Hint: the things we do in the name of fashion)

We posted this photo of an artifact from our collection on twitter yesterday and asked if anyone could identify the object. Looks somewhat terrifying, doesn’t it? @chelseybunsh was quick to…

Lace in the Limelight

GUELPH, ON, October 15, 2014: Cindy Rusak of the Stratford Festival is set to give a talk at the Guelph Civic Museum about the use of lace in the theatre…

Harpist Shannon Kingsbury to perform at Guelph Civic Museum for Fourth Fridays

GUELPH, ON, October 17, 2014: On October 24, Guelph Museums will host the enchanting music of Shannon Kingsbury as part of our Fourth Fridays concert series. Kingsbury is a singer-songwriter…

Music City North

On the fourth Friday of every month, we invite one of Guelph’s most exciting musical acts to perform here at the museum. Our handsome stone abode, perched above the city,…

What’s in a Face? Janet Wilson teaches portrait drawing at Guelph Museums

GUELPH, ON, Tuesday, October 14, 2014 – In the age of Facebook and selfies, there is heightened interest in the human face and how it expresses mood, emotion and character.…

Guelph Museums Hosts Two Lectures on the First World War

GUELPH, ON, Friday, October 7, 2014 – Guelph Museums, in partnership with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies, is set to host two lectures on the First…