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!

• 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.

• 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

CRAN-ANNE CONTEST 2024
is CANCELLED

It is with deep regret that we announce the cancelling of this year's Cran-Anne Look-Alike contest which was scheduled for Oct. 19th

Times change and for the last few years we have found that many young girls who might have entered our contest were already committed to other activities like soccer, ballet and music. The other reason for cancelling the contest is that we are in a stage of our lives when we have to conserve our energy. We have already limited our tours to two a day which must be booked in advance. However, we want to emphasize how proud we are of all our past winners. Their photographs light up the remainder of this page.

We love you all, Linda and Jack

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.

	Chinese visitors welcome! Click here
	Korean visitors welcome! Click here
	Japanese visitors welcome! Many exhibits translated for you.

Dollhouse

One of Canada’s largest replicas of the world-famous Green Gables farm house. Guess where Anne’s room is.

Our Gift Shop

One of the best Anne of Green Gables gift shops in Canada just keeps getting better and better. Offered are hard-to-find editions of LMM books, Anne movies, Anne jewelry, exclusive dolls and doll clothes, vintage Green Gables china and children’s costumes for sale. It’s worth the drive to Bala for the special people on your Christmas list.

We also do mail order and have a Facebook store that has served kindred spirirs around the globe.

Kids Can Dress Up

Boys and girls have a choice of our costumes to wear during their family tour. For girls, dresses and flowered hats right out of “Avonlea”; sailor shirts and hats for boys.

Anne: Madly Off In All Directions

This popular display shows how a book about a red-haired orphan caught the world by surprise in 1908, and the amazing spin-offs that have resulted from that first “Anne of Green Gables” book..

Location & Directions

We are about 200 kilometres or a two-hour drive north of Toronto
or 59 kilometres south east of Parry Sound

GPS directions: 1024 Maple Avenue, Bala.
Click here for directions and maps.