News & Events
March Break
Dates: March 17-20
Times: 9:30am-noon or 1-3:30pm
Cost: $20
Take a step into the past this March Break at Hutchison House Museum. From Tuesday March 12th to Friday March 15th, 2018 come to the museum for hands-on activities, pioneer games and lots of fun!
Programs run from 9:30am - 12pm or 1-3:30pm and are suitable for children ages 6-12. The cost is $20 per attendant and pre-registration is required. Children are encouraged to bring their own peanut free snacks.
For more information or to register phone 705-743-9710.
For more program information click here.
Fairy Gardens PA Day Camp
Date: Friday, January 31, 2020
Time: 9:30 to noon
Cost: $20
The Victorian era saw an increase in the interest in fairies and elves as settlers looked back to the folk tales of their ancestors. In this workshop children will create their own fantastical woodland village using natural and recycled materials. Children are required to bring their own peanut free snack. Registration is required. This workshop is appropriate for children ages 6-12. For more information or to register a child please contact the museum at 705-743-9710.
Fairies and Elves PA Day Camp
Date: Friday, January 31, 2020
Time: 1-3pm
Cost: $20
Fairies and elves were both good and bad, pranksters adn helpful if you respected them, but caused problems when you didn't. In this workshop children will create their own fairy or woodland elf out of a variety of materials. Children are required to bring a peanut free snack. Registration is required. This workshop is appropriate for children ages 6-12. For more information or to register a child please contact the museum at 705-743-9710.
Hogmanay
Date: Wednesday January 1st, 2020
Time: 1-3:30pm
Cost: Adults $10, children $5, families (2 adults/2 children) $20.
Help us ring in the new year at Hutchison House Museum with a Hogmanay celebration from 1-3:30pm on January 1 2020. Our first footer will be 'piped in' at precisely 1pm with a rousing rendition of 'Burns' Address to a Haggis' to follow shortly thereafter. Visitors will enjoy tours of the museum as well as samples of the taste of Scotland throughout the afternoon. Fiddle music, Highland dancing, adn the skirl of the bagpipe and drum will round out the day. Plan to drop in to wish new friends and old neighbours the best for the coming year. This is a drop in event and space is limited. For more information please contact the museum at 705-743-9710.
New Interactive and Accessible Program
New to Hutchison House: In an effort to make every learning experience a valuable experience, we have included a new interactive program within the Museum! As an addition to our Virtual Museum Tour DVD, Museum Management and Curatorship students from Sir Sandford Fleming College have created a new chest full of artifacts that represent a great deal of the history presented in the museum for individuals who cannot access the upstairs levels of Hutchison House. This chest is accompanied by a book providing an introductory explanation to the history of Hutchison House, allowing an independent learning experience for those who wish this. There is also a short Braille version. This experience is great for visitors who cannot trek up the stairs of the museum, those who would rather sit and experience the artifacts first-hand, or those who are visually impaired. Come and join us for your next museum experience and enjoy the history of our museum hands-on!
Hutchison House on YouTube
In honour of our 175th Anniversary last year Graham Hart from CHEX TV created this clip which can be viewed on YouTube.
Flash Back 1988: Hutchison House Museum
This past spring in honour or Toursim Week in Peterborough, the film students at Crestwood High School created 2.5 minutes clips of various attractions around town. These promotional clips aired on local CHEX TV the first week of June, 2013 and can also be found here on YouTube.
Hutchison House Living Musuem, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Virtual Exhibit Growing Up in Peterborough: A Century of Stories
When the City of Peterborough, Ontario celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005, reminiscing about the way things used to be was an important part of the occasion. "Growing Up in Peterborough: A Century of Stories" is a collection of these reminiscences, memories of how the city came to be the city it is today.
This Hutchison House Museum exhibit looks back at the lives of 11 citizens born, raised and still residing in Peterborough. Some left for one reason or another, such as war or school, but all returned to testify that there is no place in the world they would rather live.
This exhibit is available online and can be visited by clicking here.
Virtual Exhibit on the Life of Dr. Hutchison
In 2010 Hutchison House Museum received funding to create a virtual exhibit for the Community Memories section of the Virtual Museum of Canada. After a year of hard work by staff and volunteers the result was the creation of ‘The Life and Times of Dr. Hutchison in the backwoods of Upper Canada’. This exhibit is now online and can be found by going to this link:
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm_v2.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000758
The museum would like to thank Peterborough Museum and Archives, Trent University Archives, Royal Ontario Museum, Library and Archives Canada, Jean Cole, Ann Baker, Gale Fewings and Erin Panepinto for all your help in the creation of this exhibit.
