NOTICE: The Bruce Gallery (A Travelers Journey Exhibition) will be CLOSED Tuesdays from September – November, 2026, to support seasonal programming:

September 22, 29

October 6, 13, 20, 27

November 3, 10, 17, 24

 

Museum Hours

Monday 10 AM - 5 PM
Tuesday 10 AM - 5 PM
Wednesday 10 AM - 5 PM
Thursday 10 AM - 5 PM
Friday 10 AM - 5 PM
Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday 1 PM - 5 PM

Archives Hours

Monday 10 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday 10 AM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday 10 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday 10 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday 10 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM and 1 PM - 4:30 PM
Sunday Closed

General Admission

Individual $8.00 + HST
Children (4-12) $4.00 + HST
Student $6.00 + HST
Senior $6.00 + HST
Archives $6.00 + HST
Children (3 & under) FREE

Membership & Passes

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Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre​

33 Victoria Street North (in the town of Saugeen Shores)
Southampton, ON Canada N0H 2L0

Toll Free: 1-866-318-8889 | Phone: 519-797-2080 | Fax 519-797-2191

museum@brucecounty.on.ca

Get Involved

Donations

Our success is made possible, in part, by the support we receive through our strong relationships with you, our donors. Your generosity ensures that we will continue to inspire, educate and remain the premier destination of choice for exploring our history.

Volunteer

Volunteers are the building blocks of our Museum. All our activities and programs depend on the assistance of dedicated volunteers.

Stories & Artifacts

  • All
  • Agriculture
  • Art
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Businesses
  • Clothing
  • Collections Objects
  • Diaries
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Furniture
  • Marine
  • Medicine
  • Metis
  • Military
  • Natural History
  • No Photos
  • Organizations
  • People
  • Photographers
  • Places
  • Postal Service
  • Pottery
  • Railways
  • Sports
  • Textiles
Wedding dress and wedding photo
People

Wedding Dresses & Wedding Photos

Within the museum’s collection are over seventy wedding dresses and several wedding suits.  The archival collection boasts much wedding related materials such as receipts for ...
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Portrait of young girl
People

Kincardine’s Photographers

John Harnage Scougall is the most well-known photographer from Kincardine.  Though Scougall had a great eye and captured much of everyday living in Kincardine, he ...
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Advertisement for Robert Sutherland
People

Robert Sutherland

For almost two decades Bruce County was home to one of Canada’s once forgotten revolutionaries. Robert Sutherland was Canada’s first Black university graduate and first ...
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Curling Tankard 1897
Entertainment

Curling Trophies

Found within the collection of the Museum are several curling tankards and several photos of curling teams with their trophies.  Most were won by or ...
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Wooden Curling Rock
Entertainment

Curling

With a large percentage of early settlers being Scots, and good cold winters for ice, it’s no surprise that curling had an early start in ...
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Lantern
Marine

The Wreck of the Nettie Woodward

The wreck of the Nettie Woodward had great significance to Southampton and is often quoted as being the wreck that was the impetus for finally ...
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If you wish to use or purchase any of these images, please contact archives@brucecounty.on.ca

VISIT THE MUSEUM

Location

Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre

33 Victoria Street North (in the town of Saugeen Shores) Southampton, ON Canada N0H 2L0 

Toll Free:

1-866-318-8889

Phone:

519-797-2080

Fax

519-797-2191

museum@brucecounty.on.ca

Hours

Admission

Individual $8.00 + HST
Children $4.00 + HST
Student $6.00 + HST
Senior $6.00 + HST
Archives $6.00 + HST

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