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Digital Pandemic Panel Presentation "Fun in the Sun"
Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 03:46 PM
Digital Panel Presentation Fun in the Sun: Past Summer Recreation in Sarnia-Lambton Monday, August 17, 2020
Grand Bend, ON - We all recognize that this summer is quite different from those we have experienced in the past. Learn more about how local recreation habits have changed over time by joining heritage professionals from across Lambton County as they participate in the digital panel presentation Fun in the Sun: Past Summer Recreation in Sarnia-Lambton on Thursday, August 27, 2020 from 6:30 to...

March Break at Lambton Heritage Museum
Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 03:39 PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Grand Bend, ON – Bring your family to Lambton Heritage Museum over March Break!
From March 16 to 20, children will have an opportunity to use tech gadgets at the Museum from the Lambton County Library MakerSpace program. From 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. daily, school-aged children can create their own buttons or magnets using the button maker and learn to program an Ozobot, a pocket-sized robot!
In addition to the special March Break programming, Museum visitors will be able...

Digital Panel Presentation
Posted on Thursday, May 21, 2020 09:12 AM
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Grand Bend, ON - Have you wondered how the current pandemic compares to the influenza that gripped the world at the end of the First World War? A panel of local historians will address this question and more in a special digital presentation, Living Now & Looking Back: "Spanish Flu" in Sarnia-Lambton on Thursday, May 28.
"This is not the first time we have been gripped by a public health emergency," notes Dana Thorne, Curator/Supervisor at Lambton Heritage Museum. "Our...
Public Programs at Lambton County Library, Museums and Gallery Cancelled
Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2020 07:13 PM
Friday, March 13, 2020
Wyoming, ON – The County of Lambton Cultural Services Division has cancelled all public programs scheduled at its cultural services facilities, effective March 14 through to Sunday, April 5 as a preventative action in response to the emerging COVID-19 situation.
The Bridgen and Grand Bend library locations will also be closed during this same period, as these branches are located within elementary school facilities that have been closed by the Lambton Kent District School Board....
“Return of the Swans” at Lambton Heritage Museum
Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2020 07:06 PM
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Grand Bend, ON – The first tundra swans have been spotted on the Thedford Bog behind Lambton Heritage Museum, and numbers are expected to rise!
For many residents of Lambton County, the beginning of spring is associated with the annual stop made by the swans during their 6,000 kilometre migration journey through the area. Depending on the year, there may be as many as 15,000 individual birds resting on the bog behind the Museum. They are attracted to the bog by the melt water...