Current Exhibits

Opening soon! Refuge Canada is a powerful exhibit that explores Canada’s place in the global refugee crisis through compelling images, soundscapes, artifacts, and first-person accounts. Created by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.

Emerging Insights is a juried exhibition featuring artwork created by secondary students from across the Upper Grand District School Board.

Explore how laundry was done from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Presented by the Elora Fergus Arts Council in partnership with the WCMA, the annual Insights Art exhibition honours excellence and innovative approaches to artistic expression in the work of regional artists.

Learn about the complex, living, changing resource that is soil. This exhibit also highlights the stories of Wellington County residents who work with soil, including farmers and soil scientists.

Discover the compelling stories of the people that lived, worked and died here and walk in their footsteps as you visit the Barn, the Poor House Cemetery and Museum.

Enjoy a rotating selection of National Film Board shorts, classic movies, and archival footage from our collections in our cozy ten-seat movie theatre.

Follow in the footsteps of the young soldiers and nurses who served overseas during the First World War (1914-1918). This exhibit features a life-sized replica trench and the true stories of Wellington County men and women.

We’ve taken some of the 100,000 images in our collection to their original locations in Wellington County to compare what has changed between these moments in time.

In 1760, a 16-year-old boy began a journey from West Africa to the colonies of America. He endured twenty years of slavery, survived two epic wars and, as an elderly man, the hardships of settlement in the wilds of Wellington County. This is his story.

After the First World War, cenotaphs were built to honour the 60,000 men and women who lost their lives. Discover how the Wellington County cenotaphs came to be, each a unique representation of the spirit of its community and the time it was built.