NUMBERS B Y T H E Celebrating 45 years at the Tillsonburg Museum
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locations have housed the Tillsonburg Museum since the official ribbon cutting ceremony was held on June 29, 1973. The museum’s first home was the former Evergreen Dance Hall (right) on Lake Lisgar. In 1989, the museum moved to its current home at Annandale House.
The FIRST full-time museum curator was Helen Shearing . A prolific painter as well as history buff, she added art classes to the museum’s programming.
2,254 school classes have taken field trips to the museum. That’s a lot of bus rides!
Tillsonburg & District Historical Museum (1973-1978) Tillsonburg & District Historical Museum and Cultural Centre (1979-1989) Tillsonburg Museum and Annandale House (1989-1999) Annandale National Historic Site (2000 to present)
285,073
p eople and counting have visited the museum since it opened in 1973.
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