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The St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, located next to Lock 3 of the historic Welland Canal, is a leading local history museum and community gathering place, engaging visitors and building relationships with partners, while demonstrating curatorial leadership and innovative programming and exhibits.
The St. Catharines Museum is dedicated to engaging visitors in the celebration of our local stories and the cultural identity and history of the City. We are a community resource that interprets, exhibits, researches, acquires, and preserves material culture and stories of St. Catharines.


Artifact of the Week: Seal Embosser

Artifact of the Week: Avondale Dairy Milk Crate

Artifact of the Week: Kit Bag

Artifact of the Week: Wicker Wheelchair

History from Here: The Independent Rubber Company

VMLS via Podcast: A Model City

Museum Chat Live! E705 – Heritage Advocacy

Stories From the Front: St Catharines’ Wartime Sources Part Four

VMLS via Podcast – The Fight for History with Dr. Tim Cook

Stories From the Front: St Catharines’ Wartime Sources Part Three

Museum Classroom: William Hamilton Merritt Biography (Intermediate)

Stories from the Front: St Catharines’ Wartime Sources Part Two

VMLS via Podcast – The General: A Symposium with the Brock University Historical Society.

History from Here: Memorial Chapel at Ridley College

Stories from the Front: St. Catharines’ Wartime Sources Part One

VMLS via Podcast – Historic Welland Canals Mapping Project

Museum Chat Live! E704 – Oral History and Community Voices

One Hour in the Past E506 – Museums

VMLS via Podcast – For King and Country

History from Here: Protestant Home of St. Catharines

Museum Classroom: Careers on Land and Sea (Intermediate)

Museum Chat Live! E703- Cemeteries and Historic Interpretation

One Hour in the Past E504 – Extreme Weather

VMLS via Podcast: No Exit: Dead End Streets of St. Catharines

Museum Classroom: Careers on Land and Sea (Junior)

The 2022 Guided Spirit Walks Roar into the 1920s Ā

One Hour in the Past E504 – Elections

Behind the Scenes with Museum Kids- Why we chose Soapbox Derby as our Summer Edition theme

One Hour in the Past E503 – Electric Vehicles

Tapping into Spiritualism in the 2022 Guided Spirit Walks

One Hour in the Past E502 – Computers and Cell Phones

One Hour in the Past E501 – Summer Music Festivals
Museum Classroom: Knot Tying

History from Here: Silver Spire United Church

Museum Classroom: Flag Semaphore

VMLS via Podcast: Myths of the Underground Railroad

VMLS vis Podcast – Visiting Abolitionists

Museum Chat Live! E702 – Social Media, Museums & History-Telling
