Huronia Museum Film Series
Highway 93, RR2 L4R 4K4 Midland, ON, Canada

The Huronia Museum Virtual Film Series will have a new slate of films available on Saturday, January 9! Make sure to check out this selection of charming new documentaries. The perfect antidote to a cold winter night during lockdown! https://huroniamuseum.com/film-series/

Time for a quick contest again! Spookiest Story Contest! At this time of year, everyone loves a little scare so Huronia Museum wants to invite you to scare us... with your spookiest story this Halloween. So sharpen your pencil, or dust off your keyboard and let your imagination run wild. We want you to send a shiver down our spines. Since Halloween is on a Saturday, you have until November 1 to send us your entries. They can be submitted in written form, or if you prefer you can send us a video of you reading your story. Whichever you are more comfortable with. There are only two rules your stories must follow: 1. Every story must be original! 2. Stories must be no more than 3 minutes in length (if it is a video) or no more than 600 words (if it is in writing) BONUS POINTS FOR INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: One of the locations of the museum’s Museum Town project. You can find a full list of the location here. https://huroniamuseum.com/museum-town/ So give us your best spoooooooky story! Email your entries to [email protected] by November 1 to be eligible to win! Stories will be posted on our webpage and links posted on our social media. All stories remain property of the author. Please try to keep your stories community-friendly so readers of all ages can enjoy the stories.

So our contest has come to an end and we thoroughly enjoyed all the entries that came in from the community. We have so many crayon artists! Who knew? As we... sort out the prize basket and get ready to annouce our winner we thought we would share a special challenge we sent out to the staff over at the Penetanguishene Centennial Museum & Archives who also drew a couple of Group of Seven. In return we are posting from our staff as well! Keep checking back for the announcement of our Group of Seven winner.

We noticed that during the lockdown and everything that has followed, one thing that people have turned to is culture. As a museum this is something we support... whole heartedly! In fact we would like to encourage people to, not only embrace arts and culture, but to have fun with it. One of Simcoe County’s best kept secrets is that Huronia Museum has a great Group of Seven display, and it is open to the public seven days a week. The spectacular Georgian Bay landscape drew members of Canada’s Group of Seven, to paint and sketch. Works by J.E.H. MacDonald, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston and Arthur Lismer are represented in the collection of Huronia Museum. We decided to advertise that fact by having our staff duplicate their favourite Group of Seven painting in our collection using canvasses from the dollar store and crayons. The results were...interesting. What did we learn? THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING! So true, but we had a lot of fun making them. Now we are challenging others to give it a try. We want you to pick your favourite, or just one you like, Group of Seven painting and duplicate it. If you have come, or are planning to come to the museum you can copy one of the paintings we have on display. Or you can just find one that you like from any other source and copy that. There are only 2 rules: 1. It has to be a work by a member of the Group of Seven 2. It has to be done using crayon! Once your picture is complete just email a copy to [email protected] along with the title of the piece you copied and your contact information. You can also include a picture of the original if you are able. All submissions will be posted on our website and Facebook page. The contest will be running from September 1 to October 12 (Thanksgiving Monday) after which we will announce our winner.

Just announced: Academy Award winner Brie Larson reunites with co-star Jacob Tremblay, director Lenny Abrahamson, and writer Emma Donoghue to take a look back a...t their collaboration on indie breakout and TIFF ‘15 People’s Choice Award winner, ROOM. Part of the Best of TIFF Reunions, presented by Bell Canada. bit.ly/3jGvmZR #TIFF20

This could be a very interesting discussion.

Don't forget to check out the movies available through our virtual film series. https://huroniamuseum.com/film-series/

On a rainy chilly day like today, why don't you relax and watch one of our awesome Film Fest documentaries. You can access them at home and hey, if you decide to binge watch all of them in one day, I won't judge...we may have done it too

Female Filmmaker Friday Explore and enjoy seminal documentaries, inspiring shorts and a host of unedited recordings by the legendary Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin for free on NFB.ca bit.ly/AlanisNFB

The filmmakers of SOVEREIGN SOIL are doing a live Q&A for their film tonight from 5-6pm. You can watch and participate at https://www.facebook.com/jacklegfilms/ This is one of the many quality films available to watch throught the Huronia Museum Virtual Film Series. Just go to https://huroniamuseum.com/film-series/ and click on the link for Sovereign Soil to watch the film.

Almost there. We are just putting some of the final safety measures in place to be able to open safely. We should be able to open to the public as of tomorrow morning. Stay tuned for updates.

Huronia Museum Film Series Is Going Digital! Working with the great people at Kinosmith / Blue Ice Docs we have created a virtual screening room. We have selected a few films from their wonderful catelogue to share with you. We have picked them because the are interesting and important and sometimes just because they are fun. Listed on our website are all the films available for rental. For each film you want to watch you just click on the link below the description and fo...llow the instructions. The cost for renting each film is listed here. Every rental is good for 5 days. People are also given the option of making an additional donation directly to the museum when they rent a film. This is 100% voluntary, but the museum truly appreciates every contribution you make. All films are available as of 12:00AM on Friday, June 12 but you can follow the links to watch the trailers any time. Just follow the link https://huroniamuseum.com/film-series/