All Museum events and programs have been postponed or cancelled through July 5.

Following advice from Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, all City of Guelph recreation centres, libraries, museums and theatres remain closed until April 30 to slow the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). All scheduled programs, performances and events at City facilities are cancelled through July 5, 2020.

For all City of Guelph Coronavirus updates and further information, please visit guelph.ca.

We are still available online and through our social media channels. Explore the Museum’s Musings Blog and find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Please visit the staff contact page to connect with us via email while are working offsite.

A NEW lunch hour series on the third Wednesday of each month.

Bring a brown bag lunch and join us for bite-sized history tours of featured exhibitions and collections.

Admission by donation. Tickets in advance. 

About Lay of the Land:

You are here! This interactive exhibition will orient visitors in time and place through an installation of maps, spanning time immemorial to present day. Lay of the Land invites all visitors to understand our complex relationship to the land, past and present, and to the place that we now call Guelph.

On loan from Canadian Geographic is the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. Also displayed is a territory map of Treaty 3: Between the Lakes Purchase, the 1784 land agreement between the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the British Crown. On public view for the first time in this exhibition is an 1868 map of the City of Guelph, recently conserved by the Canadian Conservation Institute.