Coldwater Museum

08/08/2026

Fearless students brave the elements to save the museums Ford Model 'A' Autotrac from a hail storm this morning!

If anyone ever questions the value of students and student grants (Thank you Young Canada Works) then please check out this video. These guys are priceless and we would be lost without them. We'd likely be soaked to the skin and battered about a bit too. Well done Adair, Lola and Oz the Magnificent for being the first and second wave of responders.
With additional thanks to the paramedic Caverly, emotional support staff Shannon and El Presidente who arrived safely home with dry socks. We are still not entirely sure who the English bloke was but we are assured he isn't known to the authorities, at least not yet.


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08/08/2026

This delicious update fresh off the grill!

For our 'A Day Of Knights' and 'Return Of The Goats' event next Saturday August 15th (rain day Sunday 16th) we have invited Two Biddies and a Q (actually the 'Q' looks more like a locomotive) to cater for the event. Now we've tried the food* these local twins serve and well...it's ridiculously good!

No unidentified street meat or carpet burgers here, no Siree. The menu**, so the rumours have it will likely include, salads, grilled chicken par excellence, fresh local bread, garden salad, local pickles, potato salad and coleslaw medley. There will also be something specifically for the kids to chomp on. Oh and drinks! So mark off your calendar and come join us for lunch, watch the goats eat our riverbank*** and create a din in support of your favourite knights as they get all Monty Python on each other. "Wot this? It's just a flesh wound!"

*Menu does not include goat, we love our goats.
** Menu may change subject to us not micromanaging The Biddies, but still no goats will be harmed.
*** Did we mention the baby goats? There will likely be baby goats. Read that line again, mind blown!!!

08/08/2026

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If you're nervous about photographing strangers, street photography...

08/01/2026

A bitter sweet day at the museum today as our wonderful student Julia (not the one in the green shirt) is moving on to be with family and prepare for school which is fast approaching. Julia has been a hard working inspiration to everyone at the museum, smart, charming, motivated, a brilliant organizer, funny as all get out with a great laugh that it truly infectious. We are all going to miss you Julia, fingers crossed we will see you again next season.

07/29/2026

Our productive little Print Shop has been creating amazing things in the last couple of years including graduating its first student printer. 'OZ the Magnificent' who has returned this year to continue being, well, even more magnificent. However our physical type collection is rather sparse since most of the collection went walkies a few years back. We've fixed the door, restored the presses, one of which is 121 years old and have been on the hunt to find lead, wooden block type, even rubber lettering to expand our creative horizons. We are not looking for a huge collection just anything that will take ink that we can print with. Visitors love leaving with a souvenir they have printed themselves and those who get what we are doing with print and typography really get the bug. So if you know anyone who has type lying around doing nothing please give us a call we'd love to put it to use again. Just think, if 26 people found just one letter each and brought it to the museum, we'd have a super funky alphabet to get creative with. The start of greater things to come.

07/25/2026

A Day Of Knights is shaping up to be a huge event, a ton of interest from Cosplay, medieval fans and goat lovers alike. Our Social Media is on fire in fact the poor chap doing all this has had to send out for flameproof un**es. So get your sewing machines out there's a prize for best costume of the day! Best of all everyone who visits will get to witness the goats eat an entire river bank and whatever is left over after the knights have had their clashes. Hmmm canned meat.

07/25/2026

A big day for the museum today (Insert sound effect of brass band and large cymbal crash)!! We now proudly reveal our new signage on highway 12 TADARRRR!!!!.

Perhaps even larger than the signs themselves comes yet another display of the generosity our community continues to show us. Since our signs were blown down and subsequently tossed about by Mother Nature or a rabid tyrannosaurus we are still not quite sure which, they had little hope of repair and replacement was clearly the only way to go. The cost of this replacement, printing and re-build would be a big hit financially for our 100% volunteer run museum. Upon reaching out to 'STELLAR' billboards in Orillia, Michelle, Sara, Eldar, Emerald, Ed and Geoff and 'SIGNZN'DESIGNZ', Mike and Barry in Barrie both companies immediately sprang to our aid. Within a week of delivering the artwork to them the new (un chewed-up boards) had been installed and reinforced.

Talk about professionalism, understanding and follow through. Their days would have been so much easier if they'd just said, sorry take it up with the Jurassic period and been on their way.

On behalf of Coldwater Museum, our Board members, volunteers, students and partners, a big heart felt thank you.
Every time I drive past those boards from now on I will think how great it is to live up north and how great the people are who live in our small but vital community.

'designz

07/23/2026

A huge thank you to our wonderful community who took the time to break from their busy schedules last weekend and make Family Farm Day the success it was. 285 visitors in all and a summer day to remember.

07/22/2026

Besides the knights, guess who is coming to
A DAY OF KNIGHTS EVENT?
SATURDAY 15th AUGUST 2026
10am-4pm
Rain day Sunday 16th AUGUST 2026
10am-4pm

FIRST BATTLE 12PM-SECOND BATTLE 2PM
GOATS ALL DAY LONG, probably eating some knights or parts of what's left of them.
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgoats!