Collingwood Museum gets a facelift
The Collingwood Museum is in the midst of a facelift.
The organization has completed the first phase of a three-phase re-design project.
Melissa Shaw, museum assistant, said the first phase is a boat made by the Watts family in 1937 as well as backdrop with floor-to-ceiling photographs of the harbour.
Shaw said the second phase will focus on the history of the museum, which started as the Huron Institute, and the Indigenous history of Collingwood.
She expects this phase to be completed by the end of 2019.
Next year, the final phase will focus on the significant rail history of Collingwood and the legacy of the shipbuilding industry and the Collingwood Shipyards.
She said the themes of the exhibits will be permanent but the artifacts will rotate.
“We have a pretty large Indigenous collection,” Shaw said. “We’re working with the collections that we have.”
Shaw said the displays have also been spruced up and they will include a variety of items from Collingwood’s history.
She said they are looking to get feedback from residents that will help develop the next two phases.
“We want to know what people like about it and if there is things they don’t like, we’d like to know what those are,” she said.