At the Dundas Museum & Archives, you’ll always find fascinating facts and a warm welcome. Our collections, exhibits, and events showcase how history and geography have unfolded in our unique Dundas Valley. As a place to gather, learn and discover, we invite visitors of all ages to experience these stories and help keep them alive.
The Atrium is our light-filled entrance hall with architectural features, recalling the ecological setting and industrial past of Dundas while connecting the original 1956 building to the 1873 Pirie House, creating the Museum as it is today. It also holds our Gift Shop!
Gallery 1 features our rotating Community Curator exhibit, as well as some of the natural history of the Dundas Valley, an escarpment climbing wall and a 3-D topographical map.
Gallery 2 contains our main exhibit, “Welcome to Dundas,” which traces the valley’s history from its first Indigenous inhabitants through the arrival of British Loyalists following the American Revolution and the development of the town’s industry and business during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Gallery 3 is our Feature Gallery – a versatile space for our scheduled rotating exhibits. During Historic Places Days, our Feature Exhibition will be ‘The Ragin’ Canawl’: an authentic history of the Desjardins Canal and the Port of Dundas
Our Education Centre is a spacious gathering place that combines the warmth of Victorian architecture with a state-of-the-art audiovisual system and serves as a rotating art exhibition space. During the Historic Places Days, the artist featured will be Karen Logan (until July 15th), followed by Dundas local Keith Green.
