Park House Museum

👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳 What's cooking? Well, you could be! Join us on Friday, August 14th for Summertime Sweets, a brand new Park House cooking course. Enjoy historic dessert recipes, handcrafted in our historic kitchen, spaces are limited and pre-registration is required. Contact the museum today to reserve your space.
📅August 14th
🕰️ 4:00pm-7:00pm
💰$60.00 per person

Guess what we have back in stock, our beloved biscuit oven! Biscuit ovens are an incredible tool to use on either a fireplace or an outdoor fire. Have you taken a cooking class at the Park House? Chances are you have made some delicious bread, cookies, cakes, or other treats using a biscuit oven. This oven works by taking the heat from the source of the fire and reflecting it back on the items inside of it, giving you a nice even cooking surface in lieu of an oven!
Perfect for camping, or doing cooking demonstrations.
Available at the museum today!

And the answer is... Rosewell George Mills!
Roswell George Mills was a Canadian journalist, poet and magazine publisher. A friend and colleague of poet Elsa Gidlow, he is the first known gay man in Canadian history whose life and sexual orientation is attested through biographical literature rather than court records of a so**my trial.
Thanks for playing! Check out our pride picnic next weekend! In the meantime, you can read all about Rosewell George Mills and other members of the 2SLGBTQAI+ community by visiting "We Were Always Here" which is official up for the season

There is still time to register for our Father's Day Mini Tinsmithing Class! Give dad a chance to learn a lost art! Join us in our historic Pensioner's cottage, view and learn about the different tools a tinsmith uses, and craft your own ornament to take home!
Cost: $7.00 per person
Sessions: 1:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm
Pre-registration is required! Contact us today!

Join us as we partner with Teller's Cafe to commemorate Canada's first ever pride picnic next weekend! During True Fest on July 27th and 28th join us on Richmond street near the clocktower from 10:00am to 4:00pm for our pride picnic!
Visitors will have the chance to view our exhibition "We Were Always Here," partake in crafts, enjoy a picnic, and learn about Amherstburg's q***r history!
10:00am: Exhibit and Crafts Open
12:00-1:00pm: Snacks and Solidarity: grab a picnic, either BYOP or purchase a preordered picnic from Tellers Cafe and listen to the stories of the 2SLGBTQAI+ community in history
1:00pm-2:00pm: Exhibit and Crafts open
2:00pm-3:00pm: Listen to additional stories of the 2SLGBTQAI+ community in history
3:00pm-4:00pm: Exhibits and Crafts Open
https://Pridepicnicamherstburg.eventbrite.com

Dad called, he said he wants handmade artisinal tinware for father's day! Check out the museum's gift store for a wide variety of handmade tin items as well as Amherstburg memorabilia including our A Piece of Amherstburg buttons made by Always September, blacksmithed items from our new local blacksmith, or even support a local author and learn all about the historic Bellevue house.
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm!

Here is another chance to brush up on your knowledge of the history of the 2SLGTQAI+ community with some trivia! For the next two weeks, we will be asking a weekly trivia question, the answers can be found in the biographies of our "We Were Always Here" Exhibition located on the main floor of the museum.
Can you name this member of the 2SLGBTQAI+ based off of the hints given? Comment below, answer will be revealed on Sunday!
"We Were Always Here" is officially up and on display until September 26th, 2026 visit the museum to learn more!
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And the answer is... Michelle DuBarry
Michelle DuBarry is the stage name of Russell Allred, a Canadian drag queen who was awarded the title of the World's Oldest Performing Drag Queen by the Guinness World Records in 2015.
Thanks for playing!

Due to the weather, the Park House will be closing early today, please stay safe

Thank you so much to GEM Home Rennovations for completing another project on the historic house! Thanks to you, phase 1 is complete in the kitchen! As part of our upgrades, the museum has screened in an exterior door in the historic kitchen so that it can be opened allowing airflow, meaning we can host cooking experiences much more comfortably in the summer months! Our next step will be replacing the door with a Dutch door for further safety measures.
Please note: this is NOT and has never been an emergency exit, our historic kitchen already has two emergency exist, this was to make our cooking experineces much more pleasant!