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 in Honour of Emancipation Day
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025
Time: Regular hours of operation
Free Admission
In honour of Emancipation Day, Museum Windsor and Art Windsor-Essex will be offering free admission. Emancipation Day commemorates August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect. The Act abolished slavery across the British Empire, including here in Canada, where thousands of people of African and Indigenous heritage had been enslaved during both the French and British colonial regimes.
Guided Children's Craft
Location: Streetcar No. 351, 780 Riverside Drive West
Date: August 16, 2025
Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Free Admission
Museum Windsor staff will be on hand at Streetcar No. 351 leading a guided “conductor hat” craft. Stop in to make your own hat and check out the historic Streetcar No. 351.
François Baby House Sunday Hours
Location: François Baby House, 254 Pitt Street West
Date: Sunday, August 31, 2025
Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Free Admission
This month, join Museum Coordinator Matt Pritchard as he talks about some of his favourite artifacts found inside the François Baby House. Tour starts at 2:30 p.m.
Animal Mini-Figure (Lego) Scavenger Hunt
Location: François Baby House, 254 Pitt Street West
Date: Ongoing
Time: Regular hours of operation
Regular admission rates apply.
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
- 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
- Hugh Leal Jazz History Presentation - 2023
- Free Dino Day - 2023
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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