Current and Past Museum Windsor Events

Museum Windsor plays a key role in many events, projects, initiatives and celebrations in Windsor's culture and heritage community. We actively engage in finding unique ways to help the community tell its stories.

Exciting Things Happening at Museum Windsor This March

Museum Windsor has an exciting event schedule for March 2023 including new exhibitions, guest speakers and March Break activities:

Museum Volunteer Group Speaker Series: Talk by Reverend Gene Lotz, author of the new book The Anguish of War. Thursday, March 2, 2023, 7 p.m. start (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), Chimczuk Museum (401 Riverside Drive West). Regular admission rates apply, open to the public.
New travelling exhibition: Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ We Extend the Rafters. Children’s exhibition by Skawennati. Travelling from VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, this exhibition is centered around a sci-fi retelling of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederation story. Regular admission rates apply.
New exhibition Windsor: Cycling City by guest Curator, Dr. Christopher Waters. This new exhibition explores the rich history of cycling in Windsor and features vintage bicycles and related material. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, March 18, 2023. Regular admission rates apply.
March Break Activities – Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West. Regular admission rates apply:

Saturday, March 11 - 11 a.m. - (guided craft) - Create your own pretend fire pit.
Sunday, March 12 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - François Baby House 3D model craft.
Tuesday, March 14 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Paper bag robin craft.
Wednesday, March 15 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Leprechaun puppet craft.
Thursday, March 16 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Four-leaf clover craft.
Friday, March 17 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Pipe cleaner tree craft.
Saturday, March 18 - 11 a.m. - (guided craft) – Pine cone snowy owl.
Sunday, March 19 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Paper canoe craft.
Scavenger hunts at both the Chimczuk Museum and François Baby House all week long.

Duff-Baby House Tour

Location: Duff-Baby House, 221 Mill Street
Date: March 18, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Free admission

Are you interested in taking a look inside a house that once housed enslaved people, and later was a place of refuge for a freedom seeker, a house that welcomed Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and suffered through an American occupation during the War of 1812? Built in 1798, the Duff-Baby House is one of the most significant late 18th-century landmarks in Upper Canada, a structure that retains its original orientation to the river and reflects some of the principal themes and events shaping the province's early history. The City of Windsor (Museum Windsor) is currently leasing the 1st floor of this historic building from the Ontario Heritage Trust. With the assistance of Les Amis Duff-Baby, we offer periodic tours of this magnificent mansion. House only open to public during tour days.

Call For Artifacts - Windsor's Cycling History

Location: Chimczuk Museum
Date: Ongoing
Time: N/A

Museum Windsor is in search of artifacts, photographs, and documents relating to Windsor's cycling history for an upcoming exhibition. We're looking for vintage bicycles; cycling paraphernalia; photographs of Windsorites with their bikes; and items relating to local cycling businesses, events, and races.

If you have something of interest, please contact us at 519-253-1812 by phone or at wmuseum@citywindsor.ca by email.

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Exhibition

Location: François Baby House

Date: Ongoing

Time: Regular hours of operation

Long live the Queen! Beginning June 2, Museum Windsor will be presenting a small display titled The Road to Platinum: Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s 70 Years on the Throne at the François Baby House. Learn about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, including her childhood, her wartime service, her coronation, her love of animals, her visits to Windsor and Canada, and much more. Note that special Platinum Jubilee souvenirs are also on sale at the gift shop at the Chimczuk Museum. Admission to the François Baby House is free.

Recent Acquisitions on Display at the François Baby House

Location: François Baby House, 254 Pitt Street West

Date: Ongoing

Time: Regular museum hours

Free admission

Although Museum Windsor was closed to the public throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, staff was still busy doing collections work. A new exhibition at the François Baby House, starting July 1, 2022, will highlight some of our recent acquisitions including school ephemera, tour booklets, commemorative items (including a Boblo cap), and a tin toy fire truck. Come check out a selection of artifacts donated to the museum over the past two years.

Past Museum Windsor Events

Free Dino Day - 2023
Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale - 2022
Dinos in the Dark Event - 2022
Out of the Shadows Exhibit Tour - 2022
Historic Places Days at the Baby House - 2022
Free Day - Mayor's Walk & Birthday Celebration - 2022
Free Comic Book Day - 2022
Riverside Walking Tour - 2022
Free Day: Riverside 100 Exhibit Opening - 2022
Free Day: Heritage Week - 2022
Restored Treasures Part 1: Sharing Circle - 2022
Historical Walking Tour of Dieppe Gardens - 2021
Santa Visits the Chimczuk Museum - 2019
Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale - 2019

Museum Windsor
254 Pitt Street West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9A 5L5
Phone: For general information, call 311.
For detailed inquiries, please call (519) 253-1812.
Email: wmuseum@citywindsor.ca