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!
Exhibition Disruptions:
A new interpretive plan, introduced in May 2019, is guiding the phased redevelopment of the permanent galleries, public spaces, and outdoor interpretive areas over the next few years. Currently in phase three, work continues on our permanent galleries and some disruptions may continue until work is complete.
To request a digital PDF copy of the interpretive plan, please contact us via email
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.