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Where The Rivers Meet
Where The Rivers Meet is a display within the City Gallery that centers the Original Peoples who have been on this land since time immemorial. It includes information about migration, land relationship, treaties, impacts of colonization, and past and present-day perspectives. The display also considers the founding story of Guelph within the context of a…
Revelations From The Collection
Guelph Museums has a growing collection of over 50,000 items, including objects, archival material, and photographs. This collection allows us to record the tangible and intangible history of the place we now call Guelph. Using large-scale photography, Revelations from the Collection showcases a diverse selection of artifacts and archival material from Guelph Museums’ extensive collection.…
Weaving Cultural Identities: Celebrating Heritage and Textile Traditions
This Vancouver Biennale nationally-touring exhibition brings together artists and graphic designers of diverse Indigenous and Muslim backgrounds to collaborate on a series of textile artworks that celebrate the sacred, historic, and creative significance of prayer rugs and weaving traditions. The project began with a series of questions: In a contemporary society of mixed cultures and values,…
Art as We Are: Creative Community Care
Organized by Art Not Shame and Guelph Museums, Art as We Are: Creative Community Care spotlights three projects centred in collective community-making through art and involving about 200 local creators: Art in Hard Times (2020), Art in a Just Recovery (2023), and Community Fabric (2024). The exhibition also shares the origin story of Art Not…
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Guelph Film Festival x Guelph Civic Museum
Guelph Film Festival x Guelph Civic Museum
Guelph Film Festival returns to the Civic Museum with two documentary screenings. This year’s festival focuses on igniting conversations about our world and relationships, sparked by the themes of resistance,…
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Military Lecture: The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook
Military Lecture: The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook
Tim Cook, Canada’s preeminent war historian, introduces his new book, “The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War.” Doors open at 1:00 pm and presentation starts at 2:00 pm, followed by a question period. Books will be available for purchase, with a book signing…
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Remembrance
From Indigenous Veterans' Day on Friday, November 8 to Remembrance Day on Monday, November 11, admission to the Civic Museum and McCrae House will be by donation. We encourage you to visit the Museums to reflect on our our difficult history and to contemplate a better way forward. On Remembrance Day, McCrae House will be…
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We Remember: Beaded Poppy Workshop with Naomi Smith (Chippewas of Nawash)
Create an embossed beaded poppy pin or pendant. This two-day workshop offers traditional teachings and an introduction to Indigenous raised beading techniques and working with deer hide. This workshop is held in the Coach House at McCrae House to centre the practices of beading and Remembrance in the story of Lt. Col. John McCrae and…
6 events,
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
McCrae House is open extended hours with admission by donation. 8:55 am - Royal Canadian Legion Col. John McCrae Memorial Branch 234 flag service at McCrae Memorial Gardens, featuring wreath laying, a minute of silence, and The Last Post. 11:00 am - John McCrae Public School Remembrance assembly at McCrae Memorial Gardens.
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Military Lecture: The Canadian Army in the Fall of 1944 – Reappraised
Military Lecture: The Canadian Army in the Fall of 1944 – Reappraised
Geoff Hayes challenges an orthodox view which holds that First Canadian Army, Cinderella on the Left, was too slow through the fall of 1944. The conscription crisis during this time clouded achievements of the Canadians, but Hayes contends that reports reveal Canadian morale remained remarkably high through this period, something the Canadian government leveraged to…
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Fourth Friday: Aftrtht
Fourth Friday: Aftrtht
Fourth Friday is an opportunity to enjoy free access to the museum and a complimentary concert, designed to break down barriers to arts and culture. Free admission to the museum from 5 pm. Concert starts at 7 pm. For the fourth Friday of November, prepare for a dynamic performance from homegrown talent AFTRTHT, whose live…
