Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums facts for kids
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| Location | Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
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| Type | community history museums |
The Greater Sudbury Museums are a group of four small history museums in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. These museums help us learn about the past of different communities in the city. Three of them are in old, historic buildings. The fourth one is inside a library.
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Anderson Farm Museum
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The Anderson Farm Museum (46°25′56″N 81°08′52″W / 46.4322°N 81.1479°W) is located on a large, 14-acre (57,000 m2) piece of land in Lively. This used to be a real dairy farm owned by Frank and Gretta Anderson, who were immigrants from Finland.
The museum uses many of the original farm buildings. It also has a special old cabin called the paymaster's cabin. This cabin was moved here from Inco's mining area in Creighton after that community closed down in 1987.
Copper Cliff Museum
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The Copper Cliff Museum (46°28′25″N 81°04′01″W / 46.4737°N 81.0670°W) is on Balsam Street in Copper Cliff. It is housed in a cool log cabin. This cabin sits where the very first house in the community once stood. The log cabin itself isn't the original house, but it was moved to this spot in 1972.
The museum shows what life was like for a miner's family in the area long ago. You can also see the baseball jacket of Thelma Jo Walmsley here. She was from Copper Cliff and played for the Racine Belles team in 1946. Her team won the championship in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League!
Flour Mill Museum
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The Flour Mill Museum (Musée du Moulin-à-Fleur) (46°30′24″N 80°59′15″W / 46.5067°N 80.9876°W) helps us learn about the history of the Franco-Ontarian community. This community speaks French and lives in Ontario. The museum is located in the historic Flour Mill neighbourhood.
The historic building where the museum is now used to be the home of François Varieur. He was the foreman, or boss, of an early lumber mill in the Sudbury area. Later, it became the home for the foreman of the community's flour mill. The museum first opened its doors in 1974.
Rayside-Balfour Museum
The Rayside-Balfour Museum (46°33′06″N 81°07′13″W / 46.5518°N 81.1202°W) is in Azilda. It is the smallest of the four museums. You can find it inside the community library branch. This museum has several small displays that show what farming life was like in the Sudbury Basin area a long time ago.
New Look for the Museums
In 2015, the Greater Sudbury Museums decided to get a fresh new look. They hired a local design company to create new logos for each museum. They also designed a main logo for the Greater Sudbury Museums as a whole.
The idea behind the new logos is that Greater Sudbury is like a "patchwork community." This means it's made up of many different towns and settlements, each with its own unique history and culture. The new logos and the museums' motto, "cultural mosaic," show how all these different parts come together to form the Greater City of Sudbury.
Online Resources
The museums have a website with lots of cool stuff to explore! You can find videos and photos there. There's also a section called "Greater Sudbury Histories" with lots of historical stories about the region.
The museums also offer other online resources, like:
- The INCO Triangle Digital Archives: This is an online version of a magazine called the INCO Triangle. It was published every month by a company called International Nickel Company for its employees from 1936 to 1998.
- Copper Cliff at War: This is an online exhibit about the old town of Copper Cliff. It tells the story of the town from its start until the end of World War II.
- The Greater Sudbury Historical Database: This database has thousands of old photos and information. It was created with the Greater Sudbury Public Library.
- Greater Sudbury Memories: This project collects and shares real stories from people who lived in Greater Sudbury. You can see a map with audio and video interviews. It's a great way to hear about life in Greater Sudbury from the past!
Museum Connections
The Greater Sudbury Museums are connected with several important groups. These include the Canadian Museums Association and the Ontario Museum Association. They also work with the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
