Arts & Culture / History

Museum of Dufferin

A barn-form building with four floors and three life-size historic buildings inside it, plus the Corbetton Church on the grounds. Five dollars, and easily three hours.

Just show up

936029 Airport Rd, Mulmur·~28 min from Orangeville·$5 + HST adult · seniors $4 · youth 6–18 $2 · under 5 and support persons free

Hours

Tue–Sat 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday.

A purpose-built barn-form building with four floors and three life-size historic buildings inside it — which is a stranger and better idea than it sounds — plus the historic Corbetton Church on the grounds.

Permanent Corn Flower Glass Gallery, a Silo Gallery at the top, and the Dufferin County Archives. At $5 it’s the best-value indoor afternoon in the county, and three hours goes quickly.

Noise-cancelling headphones are available to sign out, which is a quietly excellent piece of accessibility that almost nowhere else offers.

2026 programme

  • Home & Heritage photography exhibition — thirty photographers answering one question: what does home mean? Running now.
  • Happy Days Toy Exhibition — running to March 2027
  • Free admission on the Civic Holiday, 3 August
  • Grandpals Week, 11–15 August — free for a grandparent accompanied by someone under 18
  • Corn Flower Week, 18–22 August
  • Earth & Fire: Clay and Glass — 19 September
  • Garden Tour: Summer Blooms — 5 September, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

One date we can’t confirm. Sources disagree on when Home & Heritage closes — some say 26 September, others 24 October. We’ve held the earlier date everywhere on this site, because sending someone up Airport Road to a closed exhibition is the worse mistake. Phone the museum if you’re planning around it.

Details checked July 27, 2026. Fees, hours and closures change — phone ahead for anything that would ruin the trip if it were wrong.

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