Peterborough Museum & Archives
300 Hunter Street East, Ashburnham Memorial Park K9J 6Y5 Peterborough, ON, Canada

Day 23 #Museum30 Here's our favourite Museum companion Brooke as she clobbers our Director Susan Neale with all her love and affection Do you have a furry companion that has helped you through these trying times? We love pet pictures! #humansbestfriend #susansbestfriend

Ask a Conservator Day is here! Owen Thompson will be answering your questions throughout the day and we'll be posting some response videos throughout the day/week! #askaconservator #askaconservatorday #museumconservator #theotherconservation

Day 22 #Museum30 In this new era of masks we wanted to show one of our favourites. This is a child's gas mask from WWII Learn all about this elaborate contraption in our #HistoryFromHome episode with Curator Kim Reid chatting all about it! #ptbomuseum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4cUc_SfPI

Follow along for Ask a Conservator Day 2020 with Owen Thompson as he answers a few of your questions and gives us an inside look into his work here at the PMA! Send us questions on Twitter @ptbomuseum and on Facebook and Instagram @ptbomuseumarchives, by commenting or send us a DM. #askaconservator #askaconservatorday #museumconservator

Day 17 #Musuem30 'bookshelf' Our Archives house all kinds of interesting, rare books. The bookshelf shown here features works of prominent Peterborough authors including Catherine Parr Traill!

Day20 #Museum30 Basil Lafreniere and his cousin Marg play some traditional Metis music on the accordion and guitar in the PMA's Log Cabin display in honour of the Louis Riel Accordion that is now part of the PMA's collection. This makes us think of "home" for so many reasons

Registration is open for our PA Day program, Recycle and Play! Register online through our website: https://www.peterborough.ca//expl/school-break-camps.aspx or over the phone: 705-743-5180 Ages 4-11, $50 per camper, code 16964 #padaycamp #paday #ptbomuseum #welovekidsinmuseums @CityPtbo @kprschools

A beautiful brooch which was donated under the story of Flora MacDonald's brooch, but with a bit of further digging we came up with a different answer!

Jon Oldham here to answer some of your questions about the archives and what we do!

Day 19 #Museum30 This beauty of a light came from the Denne family ca. 1900! It once held gas lights but was later wired for electric bulbs. The crystal globes that would enclose the bulbs are also part of the collection. Brass and almost 3' in length, it was a stylish piece!

Ask an Archivist Day is here! Jon Oldham will be around today to answer your questions about the life of an archivist and the collection he shepherds here at the PMA #AskanArchivistDay #AskanArchivist #PtboMuseum

Museum PA day camp is Fri Nov 27 This week's program is recycle + play where we'll flex our creativity with building challenges, design projects, and some good ol' Museum camp fun! Course Code: 16964, 9 AM-4 PM, call or register online 705-743-5180 http://ow.ly/EBq350CstBs

Ask an archivist day is tomorrow, October 7 Send Jon Oldham your questions and he'll do his best to answer! #AskanArchivist #AskanArchivistDay #PtboMuseum #Archivist #HowDoYouMuseum

Day 18 #Museum30 "Dilemma" To call the flood of July 15 2004 a dilemma would be an understatement. The floods that swept through the city affected the PMA’s (Peterborough Museum and Archives) off-site storage vault at the Peterborough Public Library. Floodwaters submerged the first level of shelves, affecting 10% of the collection. This included 115 storage containers containing 30, 000 negatives and related photographic documents from both the Balsillie Collection of Roy St...udio Images and the Parks Studio Collection including, mixed media including glass plate, nitrate, and acetate negatives, pencil and ink on paper envelopes, photographic prints, and proofs. Museum officials enacted the disaster plan and decided to bring in the Rosco Group of Montreal. Rosco is a leading company in restoring disaster-damaged material. After 24 hours the floodwaters receded, and staff were able to get into the vault and begin the clean up. With a limited time window to salvage the flood-damaged material staff loaded the boxes onto a Roscoe’s freezer trucks for the trip to Montreal. With the flooded material now safety stabilized (frozen) the work began to clean up the library and the vault to prevent any further problems with mould or mildew on the remainder of the collection. The remaining 90% of the PCMA s collection was wrapped in plastic while the area was dried, cleaned and stabilized!

Snapshots of Peterborough: 1900-1950 is on display from now until December! With hundreds of photographs from the Archives to be seen, including the Balsillie Collection of Roy Studio Images, and the Parks Studio Fonds, you won't want to miss the chance to dive deep into the candid life of Peterborough in the early 1900's! Book your appointment online or over the phone: www.peterboroughmuseumandarchives.com | 705-743-5180

Have you ever thought of making history? Downloadable kit coming your way soon to help kids (and adults!) document their experiences from the COVID era for future generations! Download includes journaling prompts, pictures and clip art to cut up and stick in a journal to help you tell your story! Journals can be donated to the museum in future to help us tell stories of our community. #inthistogether #staystrong #covidjournal

Snapshots of Peterborough: 1900-1950 opens today Book your visit online through our website or over the phone. Come explore the stories that go beyond the edges of the photographs! http://ow.ly/EENV50BCZEt #snapshotsofptbo #ptbomuseum #communitymuseum #howdoyoumuseum

Earlier this week, we said goodbye to the Cipher | Decipher exhibition, which was an absolute pleasure to host. The team carefully packed 14 crates worth of artifacts, interactives, displays and electronics - ready to be shipped back to the Canada Science & Technology Museum. Our next exhibit is "Snapshots of Peterborough: 1900 - 1950" that will provide a glimpse into some of Peterborough's lesser-known stories from the past. This exhibit is scheduled to open on Saturday, October 3rd.

Coming soon! Snapshots of Peterborough: 1900-1950 opens October 3rd (that's right, we're open Saturdays again #ptbomuseum #snapshotsofptbo #installweek #peterboroughhistory

Little visitors on the last day of Cipher | Decipher! We hope everyone had a chance to see this awesome exhibit (if not, there’s a takeaway on our blog!) and we’re looking forward to installing ‘Snapshots of Peterborough: 1900-1950’ this week #ptbomuseum #snapshotsofptbo #installweek #communitymuseum #canadianmuseum