Reviews of Peterborough Museum & Archives (Museum)

Neil Barker

Interesting museum for the local Peterborough area. The location is on top of Armour Hill and has a good surrounding view of the area. Admission is free or small donation.

Jessica Rocha

Nice place to visit with the family, lots of play areas for kids

LakeShore Technical Solutions Drone

Great museum for local history and they have a section for rotating exhibits getting things from across Canada. And it's free.

Kyle Middlestadt

This is a surprisingly great hidden gem in Peterborough. Definitly worth checking out if you have a free afternoon.

Bonnie McWilliam

A small museum but full of interesting and beautiful pieces of history! Kept my 3 year old busy for a little while and has a lovely gift shop.

0’s Corbin

I can’t wait till it open’s back up

sukant chatterjee

Very nice Museum . Excellent playground beside and we did picnic. Everybody of our family liked the atmosphere beside Lift lock

ximena medina

interesting

Emil Schreiner

Small museum, admission by donation.

Beauty 1

Absolutely worth it…. Drove all the way from Toronto to this place …. My kids loved it

Riley Richmond

Hosted the sno fest which was fanatastic. Can only assume the same

Allison Moore

Great community museum. Lots of interactions for children, fully wheel chair accessible.

Lyndele Gauci

Informative and geared for children to learn. Very child friendly! Best playground in Peterborough, outside too!

Peter Horstmann

(Translated) Small local museum with very nice and competent staff (Original) Kleines lokales Museum mit sehr nettem und kompetenten Personal

Tess Flagler

It was small, but I loved it! Entry is by donation, so very affordable, and it gives a detailed history of the city. Staff was friendly and helpful, and some exhibits were interactive which was nice!

Christine Annett

Well done.

Alan Bartholomew

Great place to take the kids, looking around the museum is free ( they take donations)

Jan Illing

Worth the visit

Dan Van Delden

Enjoyable museum for adults and kids. Exhibits gear more toward kids 10 and up but there's enough things for our younger kids that they were happily entertained too. Lots of interesting local history, artifacts and characters presented. We spent about 45 minutes with young kids along. There's an audio tour which we didn't use and could have made it a longer, more thorough visit with only older kids or adults. It's also free with an optional/suggested donation of $10/family which felt like great value to us.

Jacob Lounsbury

I enjoyed help out there few years ago because I enjoy history I didn’t know Sr John a used to Owen some land in Peterborough I know he was the first pm of Canada and the 3 pm Canada

Emily Higginson

We love this little museum. It's perfect for taking our toddler and playing for 45 mins or so. Peterborough is fortunate to have this museum!

Mitch Champagne

Great staff and some interesting local exhibits. Always great special travelling exhibits as well.

Rose Jahns

Free and interesting; my favorite combination!

Brittany Sheridan

Definitely a staple for anyone who isn't from Peterborough.

Hugo

20000 year old stuff Really interesting

Sky Lisette

Wonderful place kids a d they have wonderful workshops and a great gift shop!

Georgia Apostolaki

Small but organised,tells you what you need to know about the city!

PG “Ghost” Burke

Great detail and friendly people!!!

xepehr hurlington

Pretty good spot to go with friends great views

Peter-G. Burke

Totally informative and completely helpful staff! I loved it!

erika holbrough

Great local museum, if you are interested in learning about Peterborough this is the place to go.

Tony Kwan

Quaint museum in an amazing location! Loved it there!

Thierry Laliberté

(Translated) Suitable for children (Original) Adapté pour les enfants

Rohit Kumar

Great place for young kids. Lots of toys and activities

Hasan Hamdan

Very good place

Kevin Derrick Photography

A great little museum that will give you everything you want to know about Peterborough

E C

Great little museum, they have different exhibits every once and a while so worth to check up on to see what's on. Friendly staff and a casual walk around. There are sometimes children's camps in the summer

Clive Hawkins

Helpful staff & well set out exhibits.

The White House Exuma

Excellent temporary Ice Age and permanent Peterborough historical exhibits

matt porter

Free venue, very knowledgeable volunteers, great place to take kids

Eric Gregory

For a small local, donation based museum, this one is very good. Great place for learning Peterborough's history. Interesting exhibits. They usually have rotating exibits that are on display for several months.

D Pappas

The gem on the hill. Fantastic great management and staff

Benjamin Musclow

Very friendly staff. Obvious secular bias in reporting ages of rocks, etc.

Rob Hogg

Very interesting and full of information

Sonnam N

Finally get to know how Peterborough was founded. It has a lot of Irish settlers. No wonder we heard Irish Accent. Mistery solved.

aaron patel

Very nice displays learned alot about Peterborough. Staff were absolutely amazing.

MATTEO NELLI

Nice museum absolutely to visit

Brad LeBlanc

I'm just getting points i never went in

Frankie Schilke

WOW, so much to see and admire.

Matt Roque

Great place to play Pokemon or enjoy the view! Watch out for the teenagers smoking weed though. And yes, we know what you are doing. You aren't very discreet.

Jorge Mori

Small but a lot of very interesting information, it has a great flow to the history and even some mini games (trivia). Great time.

John Ellis

Nice relaxing place.

sallye glennen

Informative

Justin Crossan

great spot for kids lots, it's got lots of things for kids,toys and other things they can touch and play with. good a/c for a hot day

L White

Small but perfect size for young kids. EXhibits are always well done.

Jesse Haug

Excellent educational resource staffed by informed and helpful staff

Fred Heffernan

Lived my whole life in Peterborough and never went. Moved to belleville. Finally went. Really impressed. Lots of history. Kid friendly. Interactive displays

Roger OBrien

Got Tickets for 4 line theater there.

Kelly

Great programs for kids.

Stu Whitehill

Showed around by our 8 year old. Quick but nice visit.

Chantelle Losier

Great museum, a little small but gives a good history of peterborough

Roberto Osorio

(Translated) Interactive museum ideal to go with children very friendly and nice staff! Do not forget to leave donations! (Original) Museo interactivo ideal para ir con niños el personal muy simpático y agradable! No se olviden de dejar donativos!

Jam Pri

Great view of the city and very quiet

Aloysius Devandander Abercrombie (Backend Fetch)

Free entry, donation box at front desk. A well-presented display of Peterborough's history.

Beryl Grin

Enjoyed the ice age exhibition with our 5 year old Grandson. Friendly staff, nice out door playground also.

CAROL Nunes

Awesome experience and friendly staff!!

Michael Jones

A little small for my liking, it was over too quickly. But I can see this being an amazing place to explore as a kid

And12 Somes

(Translated) Very nice little museum about the history of the area and the city of Peterborough. (Original) Sehr schönes, kleines Museum über die Geschichte der Gegend und der Stadt Peterborough.

Jim King

Very interesting,there's a hill beond that you can see afar but they need to cut down brush so YOU can see more.

James P

Legendary walks above the canal in Ashburnham Memorial Park! ????

Joan Grohnwald

Great educational tour. Grandkids loved it!

Mike Finan

Nice contemporary museum, impressive visiting exhibition, however it needs another gallery room, enough to double the space

Norman de Bellefeuille

What a wonderful little museum. They've tried to cover as much history as possible in such a small space but I think it was successful enough for getting one to rethink about Peterborough and the kawarthas. We weren't the first and I doubt we'll be the last.

carol LeBlanc

Small but a lot of info on past History

Kendra Adema

Excellent experience!

Phil Nunes

A lot of room for kids to run and play. The pavilion is nice and big.

Trevor Smith

Loved it. We had heard about the fossils exhibit and decided that this would be a good time to see the museum as well. It's small and intimate and a great way to learn about local history. The fossils exhibit would have been better had the fauna depicted been local but what can you do if Peterborough paleontology is not as robust. The climate change message was loud and clear being careful not to draw conclusions.