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 - Orange Shirt Day
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: September 28, 2024
Time: Regular hours of operation
Free Admission
Enjoy free admission to the Chimczuk Museum and Art Windsor-Essex in honour of Orange Shirt Day. This is a great opportunity to visit the Original Peoples Culture and Legacy Gallery located inside the Chimczuk Museum and learn about local Indigenous history.
François Baby House Tour & Sunday Hours
Location: François Baby House, 254 Pitt Street West
Date: September 29, 2024
Time: 2 to 5 p.m.
Free admission
Visit the François Baby House for one of our monthly Sunday openings. This month, there will be a guided tour of the Windsor’s French Roots exhibition at 2:30 p.m. Free event, open to the public.
Barrels & Bites: An Evening of Whisky, Talks, & Tastings
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: October 4, 2024
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Cost: $20 per person, 19-plus event
Join Museum Windsor at the Chimczuk Museum for an exciting evening of whisky, talks, and tastings, featuring local whisky from J.P. Wiser’s (distilled at the Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery) along with sweet and savoury bites locally sourced by The Cheese Bar.
Throughout the evening, you can entice your palate with multiple flavours while exploring the area’s rich history of whisky-making and secret illicit activities. Travel back to the 19th century and beyond as you learn about the beginning of our local industry and how our success later became the bee’s knees for dappers and flappers ready to risk it all to make an amber-coated fortune. Their secret endeavours live on today, some still being uncovered in the depths of our very own Detroit River.
A ticket to this roaring evening includes the following:
- Admission to the Chimczuk Museum and all of the available exhibitions
- Three (3) drink/tasting tickets for your choice of Wiser’s whiskies along with an exclusive look behind the scenes by the master blender himself, Dr. Don Livermore
- In-depth tour of Beyond the Barrel: Windsor’s Whisky History by exhibit curator Nicole Chittle
- Under the Surface: A talk by local diver Matt Zuidema about his Prohibition finds in the Detroit River and experience in filming National Geographic’s series Drain the Oceans
- Prize basket raffle: your ticket secures you three (3) ballots to enter for a chance to win one or more exclusive guest prizes and experiences for the evening.
Optional:
- The Cheese Bar will be serving up exquisite tasting plates of cheeses, meats, sweets, and other local and internationally curated fare. Depending on your palate and chosen whiskies, you can purchase one or more plates to create divine pairings of tantalizing flavours.
- Guests are invited to join in on the glamour of the Roaring '20s and arrive in costume as an early Halloween celebration. Guests who arrive in costume will automatically be entered into a prize draw for the evening.
Tickets available for purchase at Museum Windsor. Please call 519-253-1812 to purchase tickets or visit us at 401 Riverside Drive West.
Tickets are $20 per person. Limited quantity available. 19-plus only.
Secure your spot before it’s history!
Tours of the Historic Duff-Bâby House
Location: Duff-Baby House, 221 Mill Street
Date: October 19, 2024
Time: 12 to 4 p.m.
Free admission
Visit the historic Duff-Bâby House and learn about the restoration work being done on this 225-year-old historical gem. Free event, open to the public.
Animal Mini-Figure (Lego) Scavenger Hunt
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
- Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair - 2023
- Duff-Bâby 225th Anniversary Celebration - 2023
- Canada Day Activities - 2023
- Hugh Leal Jazz History Presentation - 2023
- 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
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
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