Oshawa Museum: Facilities Challenges and our Need for Growth

The Oshawa Museum is the only museum dedicated to telling the history of our city.  With a collection of more than 50,000 objects and archival records, it preserves and promotes awareness and appreciation of our past.  This beautiful and varied collection is currently stored and displayed in the three historic homes that make up the Oshawa Museum; these buildings were designed as family homes and not meant to be museum facilities.

Melissa Cole, Curator, shows challenges we face, creative mechanisms currently in place, and how, ultimately, we are at capacity. The solution: a new building with a purpose-designed space for storage, display of collections, and visitor-orientated spaces, like event space.