The St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre features temporary exhibits on a rotating basis, offering you the chance to learn about many different subjects, people, communities, activities and events that make our city what it is today.
Hurry in to view these exhibits before they disappear for good!
Last Stop: In Their Own Words
A new temporary exhibition, Last Stop challenges the traditional narratives of the local settlement of refugee Freedom Seekers in St. Catharines in the 1850s. Allow 45 minutes.
Group Experiences for all ages are available for this exhibit.
You Are Here
Maps are symbolic representations of selected characteristics of a place drawn in two dimensions on a flat surface.
Maps help us envision what a place looks like from above and help us navigate the world around us. Maps can also show us what the future of a location could look like. Explore the history of St. Catharines through maps from the museum’s collections. Allow 45 minutes.
Group Experiences for Primary / Junior grades are available for this exhibit.
Honouring Indigenous Aid
Presented by the Irish Heritage Trust, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and the University of St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, with funding from the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, this travelling exhibition pays tribute to the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee & Huron-Wendat Indigenous Peoples in Canada West, now Ontario, who contributed to Irish Famine relief in 1847.
Honouring Indigenous Aid is co-presented by the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre and the
City of St. Catharines.
The exhibition runs through December 2026. Allow 45 minutes.