The Forest-Lambton Museum is located in a two story brick residential duplex built in the late 1800's. A part of the main floor depicts a home of the 1890's with its typical Victorian parlour, dining room and kitchen, while upstairs is depicted a bedroom, sewing room with early knitting and sewing machines, needlecraft and loom, plus a children's bedroom complete with their toys.
The collection includes local artifacts, pictures and documents of yesteryears. Featured is a military display, extensive doll collection, flax production display, early local telephone, electrical and railway exhibits, vintage cameras and projection equipment, as well as Excelsior Band memorabilia. Also, there are hand tools, First Nations' relics and fossils of Lambton County.
We Offer :
- Military display -- uniforms, photographs and memorabilia
- Collection of Dolls -- over 200 on display
- Flax Industry -- manufacture of linen
- People's Telephone Co. -- early telephone exchange equipment
- Lighting Systems -- early electrical and lighting equipment
- Grand Trunk Railroad -- pictures and artifacts
- Photography Display -- early cameras and projection equipment
- Excelsior Band -- longest continuously running civilian band in Canada
- First Nations' Artifacts
- Fossils of Lambton County
- Healthcare -- early doctor and dentist equipment
- Schoolroom of yesteryear
- Library -- archival photographs, articles, maps, books and periodicals, local family histories
- Taxidermy Display
- Local Cottage Industries rug weaving - industrial loom maple syrup production fruit picking and merchandising basket production finishing and carving tools
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