Starting today, the Dufferin County Museum & Archives is now open Mondays 10am to 5pm throughout the summer! That’s right we’re open 7 days a week - Monday through Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday Noon to 5pm so stop driving by and drop in!
~ Monday, May 28 ~
~ Sunday, May 27 ~
Museum closed today for Annual General Get Together (AGGT).
Sorry for the inconvenience, but the Dufferin County Museum & Archives will be closed today Sunday, May 27th as we head offsite to the South Luther Schoolhouse (just west of Grand Valley) for our Annual General Get Together (AGGT). Almost like an Annual General Meeting (AGM), but better! We’ll be honouring our volunteers and their endless contributions and support in making the DCMA so great! Watch for photo highlights tomorrow.
~ Friday, May 25 ~
Student Art Show featuring the very best talent from 7 local and area high schools including Westside Secondary School, Orangeville, Orangeville District Secondary School, Orangeville, Mayfield Secondary School, Caledon, Erin District High …School, Erin, Humberview District High School, Bolton, Banting Memorial High School, Alliston and Centre Dufferin District High School, Shelburne is on display at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. If you’re a student whose art work is a part of this show, tell us when you get here and we’ll let you in for free! Remember to pick up your ‘People’s Choice’ ballot to vote for your favourite piece of student art.
Local Rosemont resident Christopher Corradini, currently at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, studying Archaeology and Canadian History has been at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives for a few years now. He started here while still in high school through a co-op placement. He came back to us as our archives summer student in 2007 and has been returning to this post faithfully ever since. Chris also spent the past year working part-time on DuffStuff which will be launching in 2013 - watch for it!
Welcome back to Chris Gard. Chris currently is studying Financing at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Remember the name, as he’s likely to be a future NHL star! Returning back to the Dufferin County Museum & Archives this summer as our grounds summer student who on any given day can be found outside on one of these machines making the grounds of the Museum look spectacular!
~ Wednesday, May 23 ~
We recently received such a wonderful letter from Corporal Wayne Strudwick, DCMA’s sponsored veteran for the 2011 Battlefields Tour, that it inspired us to start a new section on our website - DCMA Celebrates. Here you will find some of our… success stories that we would like to share with you. These stories will highlight what’s inspiring, what’s positive and what’s happening at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. Visit our website www.DufferinMuseum.com and read the letter in its entirety posted on our Blog. Be sure to check out the rest of our site as well. It’s an ongoing project, but let us know what you think so far.
~ Saturday, May 19 ~
Looking for something FUN and FREE to do with the family this Victoria Day? Drop by the Dufferin County Museum & Archives as we’ll be open 10am to 5pm the holiday Monday. That’s right, it’s a day of free admission to explore all four floors of the museum, take part in cooking demonstrations where you’ll get to make, bake and eat your very own oatmeal or molasses cookie, preview and learn all about DuffStuff our new online research tool launching in 2013, and enjoy complimentary refreshments. See you Monday!
~ Friday, May 18 ~
Celebrating a birthday today is …
Guess whose celebrating a birthday today?
Ryan Cooley born May 18, 1988 in Orangeville Ontario, is most famous for his role as J.T. Yorke on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
From all of us here at the DCMA - Happy Birthday Ryan!
Visit the Dufferin County Museum & Archives in person or online on our website www.DufferinMuseum.com for more of Dufferin’s Famous People.
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~ Wednesday, May 16 ~
Next time you’re in at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives, drop by the Archives and meet … Kayla Mantle. Kayla has a BA Honours in History and Literature from Trent University and a BED in Secondary School Education from Queen’s University and will be here this summer working in the Archives developing and implementing secondary school programs. Kayla will also be working on Dufferin County’s Famous People for the 2013 launch of DuffStuff.
~ Tuesday, May 15 ~
Rogers TV (Barrie) was just here shooting the Dufferin County Museum & Archives new exhibit ‘Beauty in the Beast’ for their upcoming summer season of Daytime with host Jennifer Robinson. Her co-host Glenn Coulson couldn’t make it, but Basil did just fine. Here are a few pics of taken while there were here. Enjoy!
Look who’s back at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives this summer working as ‘Curatorial Assistant’ … Sarah Robinson. Sarah, who is a graduate of the University of Guelph and currently at Algonquin College for the Applied Museum Studies program gets right to work creating labels for our 2012 Corn Flower exhibit.
~ Thursday, May 10 ~
Look who’s here shopping in the Dufferin County Museum & Archives gift shop - Joan Hope from Dragonfly Arts on Broadway and local artist Rachel Clark-Hall.
Annual Student Art Show opens Mother’s Day weekend on Saturday, May 12. Be sure to drop by the Dufferin County Museum & Archives and remember to pick up your ‘People’s Choice’ ballot to vote for your favourite piece of student art. Awards will be presented on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 17 @2pm during the Awards Ceremony.
~ Wednesday, May 9 ~
It’s raining outside so don’t forget your umbrella - especially when it’s like the cute kitty cat one that Wayne, the Curator of the Dufferin County Museum & Archives is sharing with Chris or is he trying to protect the book?
DCMA on Rogers TV in Barrie this morning at 11am
Tune in to Rogers Cable 10 (Barrie) today at 11am to see the Dufferin County Museum & Archives promoting our upcoming Corn Flower Festival. If you miss the show this morning, don’t worry, it gets repeated at 4pm, 11pm and 4am.
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