Museum Windsor

Museum Windsor Museum Windsor = François Baby House, the Chimczuk Museum and the Duff Baby House It is open periodically for tours and events, and also by appointment.

The newly rebranded Museum Windsor (previously Windsor's Community Museum) consists of the François Baby House at 254 Pitt St. W. , the Chimczuk Museum at 401 Riverside Drive W., and the Duff Baby House at 221 Mill Street. The Chimczuk Museum features exhibitions detailing the whole history of Windsor and area from early geologic time through the present. The Chimczuk Museum site also features sep

arate exhibitions on Indigenous peoples, a Hands-on-History room for children and temporary exhibitions. The François Baby House has free admission and is open Tuesday – Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Sundays (May-September) 2-5pm. Baby House exhibitions highlight the French origins of this area, and the War of 1812 and the Battle of Windsor. The Duff-Baby House was built in 1798 and is It is recognized among the most significant late eighteenth-century landmarks in Upper Canada. Les Amis Duff-Baby, a local volunteer group, works with Museum Windsor to provide access to the centre, the house, and the site. Museum staff utilize this facility for public tours, community outreach programs, local heritage meetings, and other Sandwich Town community activities.

Diagrams showing the utensils connections of the vessels to be used in the brewery of the Messrs: Vandamme and Marsden s...
06/22/2026

Diagrams showing the utensils connections of the vessels to be used in the brewery of the Messrs: Vandamme and Marsden situated on the bank of the Detroit River in the Town of Sandwich, 1868.
Collection of Museum Windsor, M355

06/21/2026
The Chimczuk Museum will be offering free admission on Sunday, June 21st in honour of National Indigneous Peoples Day.  ...
06/19/2026

The Chimczuk Museum will be offering free admission on Sunday, June 21st in honour of National Indigneous Peoples Day. See the exhibition Bi-Giwen: Coming Home - Truth -Telling From the Sixties Scoop on loan from The Legacy of Hope Foundation before it closes on July 5th.

Did you know that this year marks the 30th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day! The day coinciding with the summer solstice is a time to celebrate the culture and heritage of Indigenous Peoples across Canada.

Come and have a chat about museum programming or history with Matt Pritchard, our awesome  Museum Coordinator at the LaS...
06/17/2026

Come and have a chat about museum programming or history with Matt Pritchard, our awesome Museum Coordinator at the LaSalle Senior Expo 2026 today (June 17th) from 1pm to 4pm at the Event Centre at LaSalle Landing, 970 Front Road.

Anisia Mordowanec poses for a photo with her fellow nurses at Hotel Dieu hospital in 1954. P11763
06/17/2026

Anisia Mordowanec poses for a photo with her fellow nurses at Hotel Dieu hospital in 1954.

P11763

Don't miss the next two Duff-Baby House free admission public tour days!  June 20 and 27 from noon to 4pm!  Check out th...
06/16/2026

Don't miss the next two Duff-Baby House free admission public tour days!
June 20 and 27 from noon to 4pm!
Check out this recently restored 1798 oldest house in Windsor, and don't miss the new intriguing interpretive elements inside.
221 Mill St.

McNiff’s Plan of Lake Erie, 1791. Copy of original in the collection of Museum Windsor, M354
06/15/2026

McNiff’s Plan of Lake Erie, 1791.
Copy of original in the collection of Museum Windsor, M354

Thanks to all our wonderful Museum Volunteers! (Photo from the Museum Volunteer Group Appreciation Luncheon)
06/13/2026

Thanks to all our wonderful Museum Volunteers!
(Photo from the Museum Volunteer Group Appreciation Luncheon)

https://www.warmuseum.ca/exhibitions/canada-and-the-american-civil-warIf you are visiting Ottawa this summer, stop by an...
06/11/2026

https://www.warmuseum.ca/exhibitions/canada-and-the-american-civil-war

If you are visiting Ottawa this summer, stop by and see the artifact we loaned to the Canadian War Museum - a rifle made by James Monroe Jones, a Black gunsmith from Chatham, Ontario. It is now on display in the exhibition Close to Conflict – Canada and the American Civil War.
Until Feb. 28, 2027

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401 Riverside Drive West
Windsor, ON
N9A7J1

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