Current and Past 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.
Free Admission — Chimczuk Museum 10th Anniversary
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: February 21, 2026
Time: Regular hours of operation
Free admission
Museum Windsor is going all out to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Chimczuk Museum on Saturday, February 21, 2026.
The exciting lineup of activities includes the following:
Free Admission and Birthday Cookies
Free admission to the Chimczuk Museum and Art Windsor-Essex. Enjoy a free birthday cookie (while supplies last) starting at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of admission, visitors are encouraged to bring donations of canned goods and non-perishable food items for the Windsor Youth Centre.
Guided Tour: 11:00 a.m.
Join Museum Windsor Coordinator Matthew Pritchard on a special guided tour of the permanent exhibition The River and the Land Sustain Us. Matt provided the first public tour of this exhibition in 2016 and will share fun stories of his experience providing tours over the last 10 years.
Special Talk, CBC: Memories of 50 Years of Coverage: 1:00 p.m.
Learn about CBC’s local coverage over the last 50 years. Moderated by former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) host Barbara Peacock, special guests include Percy Hatfield (municipal affairs reporter), Tony Doucette (host of Windsor Morning), and Chris Ensing (video journalist).
Drumming and Storytelling with Teajai Travis: 2:00 p.m.
Join local artist and community storyteller Teajai Travis as he gets visitors moving with drumming and storytelling.
Magic Tricks, Balloon Animals, and Face Painting: 12:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Magician Elizabeth Prosser will be on hand teaching magic tricks and creating balloon animals for visitors. Ted from Ted Paints Faces will be providing free face painting.
Featured Artifact, No. 2 Construction Battalion Cap Badge: All Day
This recently acquired cap badge will be on public display for the first time. The No. 2 Construction Battalion was Canada’s first and only all-Black battalion in the First World War.
Family Friendly Activities: All Day
Enjoy birthday-themed crafts in our Children’s Gallery, a special scavenger hunt with small prize, and a children’s colouring contest; and share your favourite museum memories on our public bulletin board.
10th Anniversary Photo Slideshow: All Day
Check out a video slideshow created by Museum Windsor staff highlighting photographs from the Chimczuk Museum over the last 10 years. Images include current and former staff, special events, exhibitions, Museum Volunteer Group meetings, and never-seen photos of the construction of the Chimczuk Museum space.
Animal Mini-Figure (Lego) Scavenger Hunt
Location: François Baby House, 254 Pitt Street West
Date: Ongoing
Time: Regular hours of operation
Free admission.
Animal Lego friends are visiting the François Baby House. Can you find them and the artifacts they are discovering? Small prize for those adventurers who finish the hunt! Free event, open to the public.
Past Museum Windsor Events
- Free Day - Emancipation Day - 2025
- Guest Speaker Nadine Williams - "The Fabric of Our Being - Transformative" - 2025
- Free Day - Heritage Day/Black History Month - 2025
- Beat the Winter Blues - 2025
- Barrels & Bites Event - 2024
- François Baby House Tours - 2024
- Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair - 2023
- Duff-Bâby 225th Anniversary Celebration - 2023
- Canada Day Activities - 2023
Museum Windsor
254 Pitt Street West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9A 5L5
For general information, contact 311.
For detailed inquiries, please call (519) 253-1812.
Email: wmuseum@citywindsor.ca
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