Current and Past Events
Museum Windsor plays a key role in many events, projects, initiatives and celebrations in Windsor's culture and heritage community. We actively engage in finding unique ways to help the community tell its stories.
New Literary Exhibit Launch and Free Day at the Chimczuk Museum
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 1 p.m.
Free Admission.
Join us at the Chimczuk Museum on Saturday, April 5, 2025, for the launch of a brand-new literary history exhibition curated by Marty Gervais.
The Windsor region has a long and rich literary history. A Snapshot of the Literary History of the Windsor Region, curated by Windsor’s Poet Laureate Emeritus Marty Gervais, traces the chronology of what he calls “a gallery of heroes.” The exhibition showcases early writers like steamship traveller Anna Brownwell Jameson and abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary as well as famous literary luminaries from the 20th and 21st centuries like Marshall McLuhan, Joyce Carol Oates, W.O. Mitchell, Adele Wiseman, Morley Callaghan and Alistair MacLeod. The exhibit also charts the rise of the city’s literary magazines and publishing companies, some garnering such prestigious awards as the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Giller Prize.
The exhibition will launch at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Join us for opening remarks from special guests, including:
- Aimée Parent Dunn, publisher of Palimpsest Press
- Peter Hrastovec, Windsor’s Poet Laureate
- Mary Ann Mulhern, former Windsor Poet Laureate
- Andre Narbonne, University of Windsor
- Kalie Chapman, University of Windsor
- Christopher Lawrence Menard, City of Windsor
- Elise Gervais, Black Moss Press
- Marty Gervais, Guest Curator and Windsor’s Poet Laureate Emeritus
Best of all, there will be free admission to the Chimczuk Museum and Art Windsor-Essex! In lieu of an admission fee, visitors are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items for donation to the Windsor Youth Centre.
New Display – COVID Quilt: 5-Year Anniversary
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: March 2025
Time: Regular hours of operation
Regular admission rates apply.
To reflect on the 5-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Museum Windsor is displaying a COVID-19 quilt created by the Windsor-Essex Sewing Force. The organization initially came together to create cloth masks during the pandemic. Regular admission rates apply.
Museum Volunteer Group Meeting
Location: Chimczuk Museum, 401 Riverside Drive West
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 1 p.m.
Regular admission rates apply
Join the Museum Volunteer Group for our monthly speaker series. This month, visitors will be treated to a guided tour of our new exhibition A Snapshot of the Literary History of the Windsor Region. A business meeting for Museum Volunteer Group members will follow.
Animal Mini-Figure (Lego) Scavenger Hunt
Location: François Baby House, 254 Pitt Street West
Date: Ongoing
Time: Regular hours of operation
Regular admission rates apply.
Animal Lego friends are visiting the François Baby House. Can you find them and the artifacts they are discovering? Small prize for those adventurers who finish the hunt! Free event, open to the public.
Past Museum Windsor Events
- Guest Speaker Nadine Williams - "The Fabric of Our Being - Transformative" - 2025
- Free Day - Heritage Day/Black History Month - 2025
- Beat the Winter Blues - 2025
- Barrels & Bites Event - 2024
- François Baby House Tours - 2024
- Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair - 2023
- Duff-Bâby 225th Anniversary Celebration - 2023
- Canada Day Activities - 2023
- Hugh Leal Jazz History Presentation - 2023
- Free Dino Day - 2023
Museum Windsor
254 Pitt Street West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9A 5L5
Phone: For general information, call 311.
For detailed inquiries, please call (519) 253-1812.
Email: wmuseum@citywindsor.ca
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