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Museums & heritage

Discover museums & heritage across Durham Region. Read original visitor guides, location details and source-checked access notes.

Parkwood mansion’s columned entrance, green roof and gardens in Oshawa.
Parkwood National Historic Site in Oshawa, photographed in May 2022.Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; display may crop.
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Wooden Pickering Museum sign beside grass and spring flowers.
Pickering Museum’s wooden sign, photographed in May 2019.Photo: LeonV · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; display may crop.

Pickering · Museums & heritage

Pickering Museum Village

A heritage village beside Duffins Creek where historic buildings and interpretation introduce Pickering’s past.

Cream-coloured Lynde House Museum with green shutters, a central porch and flower beds.
The front of Lynde House Museum in Whitby, photographed in July 2021.Photo: LyndeHouseMuseum · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; display may crop.

Whitby · Museums & heritage

Lynde House Museum

A historic Georgian house museum where volunteer-led tours explore the Lynde family and early Whitby.

Yellow Manic GT among vintage cars inside the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa.
A Manic GT on display at the Canadian Automotive Museum, photographed in 2014.Photo: Canadian Automotive Museum · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; display may crop.

Oshawa · Museums & heritage

Canadian Automotive Museum

An indoor museum in downtown Oshawa exploring motoring history through a collection of historic vehicles.

Parkwood mansion’s columned entrance, green roof and gardens in Oshawa.
Parkwood National Historic Site in Oshawa, photographed in May 2022.Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; display may crop.

Oshawa · Museums & heritage

Parkwood National Historic Site

A historic McLaughlin estate in Oshawa with guided house tours and landscaped grounds.

Brock · Museums & heritage

Beaver River Museum

A volunteer museum of four historic buildings beside the Beaver River in Beaverton, run by the Beaverton Thorah Eldon Historical Society.

Scugog · Museums & heritage

Scugog Shores Museum Village

A seasonal heritage village on Scugog Island interpreting local life through restored buildings, gardens and exhibits.

A two-storey heritage house with white porches and autumn trees at Uxbridge Historical Centre.
A heritage house at Uxbridge Historical Centre, photographed in 2010.Photo: Liz A. Arnsby · CC BY 2.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; display may crop.

Uxbridge · Museums & heritage

Uxbridge Historical Centre

A Quaker Hill heritage site with historic buildings, local collections and seasonal exhibitions and tours.