• 2024 OMAH Annual General Meeting

    We are honoured to welcome Kelly Brownbill as our special guest speaker. Biography Kelly Brownbill's spirit name, Wabunnoongakekwe, means Woman Who Comes from the East and she is proud to be Waabizhashi Dodem, Marten Clan.  She is a member of the Flat Bay community of the Mi’kmaq Nation in Newfoundland, and of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge. As an educator on […]

  • PA days throughout the school year

    PA days throughout the school year

    January 26, 2024  April 8, 2024 June 7, 2027   For ages 6 - 12   OMAH offers a special camp every PA Day of the school year. During these fun and creative days at the museum, campers will be guided through a variety of art and history workshops and activities both inside and outside […]

  • Amanda Marino: A Leacock Love Story

    A Leacock Love StoryWednesday, June 19, 2024 at 7PM ON ZOOM Author Stephen Butler Leacock, who immortalized Orillia in his book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, is known as the grandfather of Canadian humour and at one point was the most famous humourist in the English-speaking world. He didn’t reach his success all on […]

  • Gangs, Guns, & Grog

    Gangs, Guns, & Grog

    This summer OMAH's popular guided downtown walking tour returns. Gangs, Guns and Grog is themed around Orillia in the 1870s, a time in which there was a licensed pub for every 150 citizens and it was legal to carry a loaded and concealed firearm. 1870s Orillia was chaos, and we are so excited to tell […]

  • Gangs, Guns, & Grog

    Gangs, Guns, & Grog

    This summer OMAH's popular guided downtown walking tour returns. Gangs, Guns and Grog is themed around Orillia in the 1870s, a time in which there was a licensed pub for every 150 citizens and it was legal to carry a loaded and concealed firearm. 1870s Orillia was chaos, and we are so excited to tell […]

  • Gangs, Guns, & Grog

    Gangs, Guns, & Grog

    This summer OMAH's popular guided downtown walking tour returns. Gangs, Guns and Grog is themed around Orillia in the 1870s, a time in which there was a licensed pub for every 150 citizens and it was legal to carry a loaded and concealed firearm. 1870s Orillia was chaos, and we are so excited to tell […]

  • PAWTRAITS

    “Pet keeping is not static: the kinds of pets we keep, how we keep them and how we form relationships with them have changed over time.”- Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, Pet Revolution Documented through photographs and objects from OMAH's permanent collection, discover the bond between Orillians and their pets in the 19th and early […]