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Museum Windsor = François Baby House, the Chimczuk Museum and the Duff Baby House It is open periodically for tours and events, and also by appointment.

The newly rebranded Museum Windsor (previously Windsor's Community Museum) consists of the François Baby House at 254 Pitt St. W. , the Chimczuk Museum at 401 Riverside Drive W., and the Duff Baby House at 221 Mill Street. The Chimczuk Museum features exhibitions detailing the whole history of Windsor and area from early geologic time through the present. The Chimczuk Museum site also features sep

arate exhibitions on Indigenous peoples, a Hands-on-History room for children and temporary exhibitions. The François Baby House has free admission and is open Tuesday – Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Sundays (May-September) 2-5pm. Baby House exhibitions highlight the French origins of this area, and the War of 1812 and the Battle of Windsor. The Duff-Baby House was built in 1798 and is It is recognized among the most significant late eighteenth-century landmarks in Upper Canada. Les Amis Duff-Baby, a local volunteer group, works with Museum Windsor to provide access to the centre, the house, and the site. Museum staff utilize this facility for public tours, community outreach programs, local heritage meetings, and other Sandwich Town community activities.

09/07/2026

Map showing Essex County with Crown and Clergy Reserves, 1795. These were specific blocks—typically one-seventh each—of surveyed public lands set aside by the Constitutional Act of 1791 in Upper Canada. Copy of original in the collection of Library and Archives Canada, M386

09/05/2026

Inspired by the permanent alphabet display at the Chimczuk Museum, part of Buildings That Still Are features a Built Heritage Alphabet. This section of the exhibit explores the architectural styles, architects, buildings, and streets that make up Windsor's unique urban character. Come check out the exhibit Buildings That Still Are today!

09/04/2026

This is a reminder about our upcoming Downtown Built Heritage Walking Tour!

Join museum staff as we walk around downtown and explore the built heritage of several architectural landmarks. We will discuss the architects behind the design, the type of design, the building’s history, and more recent updates to the building.

The walking tour will take place on September 19; tickets are $10 per person, and the event takes place from 11 am to 1 pm. Call the museum to book tickets at 519-253-1812. Purchasing a ticket for the walking tour also includes access to the Chimczuk Museum to check out the associated exhibit Buildings That Still Are!

The photograph is of the north side of the Francois Baby House during a renovation back in the 1950s.

P6586 in the Museum Windsor collection.

09/03/2026

This rotary telephone was used at the Hiram Walker Historical Museum (now Museum Windsor) from 1958 to 1980. It's one of our neat artifacts currently on display in our exhibit, Treasures from the Vault. Come down to the Chimczuk Museum to check it out for yourself!

09/02/2026

Compass
Used on the Jo-Anna (or Johanna) scow-schooner skippered by Jerome Cadet (1852-1936). At one time the ship made deliveries to Hiram Walkers. It was built by the Thibert scow-builders of Belle River. The ship was owned at one time by a Ouellette of Windsor.
Gift of Gladys Cada. 1964.27

08/31/2026

Detail of Plan of Moy Property, Sandwich, 1868. This plan by O. Bartley, Provincial Land Surveyor, shows details of the different buildings on this property. The dwelling Moy Hall – named for the ancestral home of the clan Mackintosh in Scotland and built at the end of the 18th century by Angus Mackintosh, a Scots trader – gave its name to Moy Avenue in Windsor. M392

08/29/2026

Have you ever shopped at the N&D Supermarket?

Here is a close up image from that grocery store! N&D supermarkets were founded by Nikola (Nick) Budimir and Danny Manojlovich (N&D) in 1953. These stores thrived in the 1950s and 1960s and ultimately closed their doors in 1998.

You can find this register on display in our current exhibit Treasures From The Vault at the Chimczuk Museum!

08/27/2026

A huge thank you to the 2026 Summer Students who helped in the making of this promo video for our exhibit at the Chimczuk Museum: Buildings That Still Are (currently on display)! We wish them the best of luck with their future studies.

08/26/2026

John, Jean, and John McArthur sitting on running board and Oliver McArthur in driver's seat of 1928 REO car.
John is with the family cat and their father holds their dog.
The McArthur family had a farm on Prince Road.
P9553

08/24/2026

[Plan of Detroit] Fort Lernoult by Major John Jacob Ulrich Rivardi. Date depicted 1796-97; Date of original work March 29, 1799. This version is a 1951 copy.
Why is the writing on the back backwards? This version of the map was one of a wide distribution reproduced on thin paper with a corresponding 20th century street plan printed on the verso for the city of Detroit’s 250th in 1951. When held up to the light you could see the current 1951 street plan behind the 1796-97 plan.
[Reference: p.104 of Brian Dunnigan’s incredible work, Frontier Metropolis]
This copy in the collection of Museum Windsor, M371.

Address

401 Riverside Drive West
Windsor, ON
N9A7J1

Telephone

+15192531812

Website

http://www.museumwindsor.ca/

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