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Welcome from Jack & Linda
It is with great joy that we announce that our opening date for the 2024 season will be Monday, June 3rd.
Once again visitors will be asked to book ahead for either a 10am or 1:30 pm tour. That will be our daily
pattern from then until the end of the season (Oct. 19th) except for Sunday when we are closed. Please note, if no tours are booked we will take the day off as a well-earned rest.
Is this the last summer we will be open? It is no secret that both Linda and Jack have encountered health challenges over recent years.
Whether or not we continue past this year will depend upon the state of Linda's lungs and Jack's eyes. What we can promise is that we will offer you the best tour we can this year. You will leave with memories
that will linger for years and photo-op pictures that will delight your family and friends. We look forward to welcoming you and your family.
More than 5 years ago a senior CBC TV producer called our museum one ofthe very best after visiting other L.M. Montgomery Museums across Canada. (you can click on a link to her tribute to the right of this column).
Jack Hutton & Linda Jackson-Hutton, co-founders of Bala's Museum
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$7.99 a person / $24.99 per family (limit of 4)
Book your Tour for 10:00 am or 1:30 pm
See
and Do!
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Lucy Maud Montgomery's silver tea set, on loan from Blair
Macdonald, great-grandson of the famous author and his
mother, Marie Macdonald.
We are so grateful to Blair's
late father, David Macdonald, who first loaned us the
tea set with his wife Marie32 years ago.
• Maud’s personal correspondence basket, a gift from George Campbell.
• Fabulous collection of LMM’s books, including
rare and first editions. Foreign editions include Chinese,
Dutch, Polish, Japanese and many others. Find your own
nationality!
• Avonlea schoolhouse in miniature.
• Photo ops. •
Green Gables Doll house
• Dress-up costumes for kids.
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Anne’s
tea party with Diana • Anne’s
school room - Children can play act, including pretending to whack Gilbert over the head with a slate.
Book Tours in advance:
705-762-5876 balamus@muskoka.com
Tours at 10:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m
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"A lifelong love affair with Anne of
Green Gables led to a thrilling venture." Source
CBC
Bala's Museum is world-class with its collection of
Anne of Green Gables displays, artifacts and information,
according to a special report on CBC.ca's
website, written by CBC producer / writer Vanja
Mutbdzija Jaksik after she and her family spent two
hours at the museum Sunday, Sept. 22nd in a private
tour.
CLICK
HERE TO SEE THE WONDERFUL TRIBUTE TO OUR MUSEUM
ON THE CBC'S NATIONAL WEBSITE
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CRAN-ANNE CONTEST 2024
Sat. Oct. 12th during Bala Cranberry Festival
Contestants should arrive at the museum
no later than 1:30 pm.
Winner announced at 2 pm.
Prize is a vinyl Anne of Green Gables doll.
Parents should be aware that the Bala Cranberry Festival will charge adults and children over age of 13 for entry to the Festival.
Tickets can be purchased online through the Festival's Facebook in early October. Call us at 705-762-5876 and we can provide further information.
You can register your daughter for the judging through the same phone number or balamus@muskoka.com .
32nd ANNIVERSARY
OF BALA'S MUSEUM
Last summer we celebrated the 31st anniversary of our museum and the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery bringing her family to Bala for a two-week holiday. It seemed incredible then that more than 129,000 visitors have come through our doors since we opened on July 24th, 1992. The story of how this all started with our honeymoon in Prince Edward Island in 1990 has been shared by CBC national television, CTV and Global News and the Toronto dailies.
If you are interested in sharing our story firsthand,
click here.
1–888-579-7739 (Canada only)
or 705-762-5876
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Chinese
visitors welcome!
Click here |
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Korean
visitors welcome!
Click here |
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Japanese
visitors welcome!
Many exhibits translated for you. |
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