Beyond Classrooms at the Frontenac County Schools Museum

What if teachers could move their classes to a museum, an art gallery or a community site for a week to stimulate inquiry-based learning? What if teachers could plan a unique program with the help of professionals who have experience with these kinds of programs and could draw on community members who are able to...

Steps away from Lake Ontario, I discovered the Museum of Health Care at Kingston

Twice in the last month, I’ve heard music as I approached Newlands Pavilion. Perhaps that’s not surprising given that this attractive wooden building was designed in 1896 as a music pavilion, but it’s nice to know that it is still being used for musical events and dances. It’s a very special part of Kingston’s waterfront,...

Linda Tsuji – New curator at the Miller Museum of Geology

By Mary K. Armstrong / Photo by Susanna Gordon Let me introduce you to Linda Tsuji, the Miller Museum of Geology’s new curator. Those of you who have visited this museum will understand why The Museum of Geology attracted Dr. Linda Tsuji. Dr. Tsuji earned her PhD in paleontology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany....

Miller Museum of Geology @ Queen’s University

By Elizabeth Cashman The Miller Museum of Geology is named after Willet Green Miller, a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and metallurgy 1898-1923 and President 1908-09. Provincial Geologist for Ontario 1902-25. Learn more about him in a Kingston Whig-Standard article by Susanna McLeod here. It is with pleasure that I am taking up the...

Cloyne Pioneer Museum

By Andrea Gyimah Situated among the abundant lakes of Addington Highlands,  the town of Cloyne, Ontario evokes the nostalgia of its logging past. The donation-run Cloyne Pioneer Museum and Archives serves as a time machine for those interested in taking a look at the history of the logging and timber industries in Southeastern Ontario. It...

Share Your Family Story – South Frontenac Museum

The most recent stop on our Tour of Kingston Museums was the South Frontenac Museum in Hartington. For those of you not familiar with the location, you will find the museum next to the Hartington branch of the public library on Road 38, just up from Harrowsmith. It is a short 20 minute drive up...

Frontenac County Schools Museum and Barriefield

It feels like I am starting off every blog post I write with something along the lines of "we discovered another Kingston gem", this may be getting old but it is so very true of the couple of hours we spent in Barriefield on a wonderful, sunny and warm spring morning. I had never been to...