The Cobourg Museum Foundation has announced that its Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre will reopen to the public on Friday July 23, 2021. Delayed by the COVID-19 restrictions, the Heritage Centre is ready to welcome visitors with a completely new line-up of exhibits.
The main Exhibit Hall will be featuring exhibits under the title “The Heinous, the Heroic & the High Flyers”. Here, in story panels, artifacts and a video, visitors will meet a selection of nine fascinating historic figures with close associations to Cobourg and Northumberland County. Among others they will find a murderer and the “funniest women in the world”. Curators of the exhibit have dubbed in “Northumberland’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party”!
The Exhibit Hall’s East End is now filled with detailed operating installations showing the Cobourg & Peterborough Railway in miniature. George Parker, who had already created the outdoor operating railway, has moved indoors and recreated the C&PR, showing fine details of its Rice Lake Bridge and the attempts made to turn the bridge into a causeway. This exhibit is a work of art in itself.
While Friday is Opening Day, Saturday will be special too, as it will see the unveiling of an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Statement in the form of a work of art by Alderville’s Rick Beaver. The unveiling, by Rick himself, will take place at 10am on Saturday, July 24.
All are invited but masks are required to enter the Heritage Centre property and social distancing is required inside the building. 2021 open hours are currently Friday & Saturday 10 – 5; Sunday 1-5. Admission is free with donations appreciated. The CMF website is www.cobourgmuseum.ca.
Author: Pete Fisher
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