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Jack & Linda Winning Legacy Award
There is no doubt about the highlight of 2024 for our little museum.
On June 23rd we received a top LMM award at the University of Prince Edward Island for “outstanding contributions to Montgomery scholarship”.
The closing highlight of the conference was the presentation of the Legacy Award for our "contributions to Montgomery scholarship and
public engagement” for over the last 32 years.
We were honoured to receive the Legacy Award and even more so when it was presented to us by the Lieutenant-Governor of the province, Her Honour Antionette Perry.
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$10.00 a person / $29.00 per family (limit of 4)
Book your Tour for 10:00 am or 1:30 pm
Welcome from Jack & Linda
It is with great joy that we announce that our opening date for the 2025 season will be Monday June 2nd.
Open Monday to Saturday weekly. Closed Sunday.
Once again visitors will be asked to book ahead for
either a 10 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. tour.
That will be our daily pattern until the end of the season
- (Oct. 19th, last day of Bala'sCranberry Festival)
Please note, if no tours are booked we will
take the day off as a well-earned rest.
Is this the last year 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 on our health.
What we can promise you 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-ops that will delight your family and friends.
We look forward to welcoming you all!
See
and Do!
• 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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33rd ANNIVERSARY
OF BALA'S MUSEUM
Details to Come
This summer will be the 33rd anniversary of our museum
and the 103rd anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery bringing her family to Bala for a two-week holiday
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It seems incredible that more than 150,000
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 theToronto daily newspapers.
If you are interested in reading our story firsthand,
click here.
Contact us at 705-762-5876
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Chinese
visitors welcome!
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Korean
visitors welcome!
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Japanese
visitors welcome!
Many exhibits translated for you. |
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MEET
YOUR HOSTS
Jack and Linda Hutton are proud that Bala’s Museum has become known as
one of the best L.M. Montgomery museums in Canada. They have been
operating it since 1992.
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Lucy Maud Montomery Day
Date & Details to come.
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CRAN-ANNE
LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST
Anne Otten, our 2023 Cran_Anne winner.
THE CRAN-ANNE CONTEST HAS ENDED
See the Cran-Anne page for photos of all past winners! |
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Dollhouse
One of Canada’s largest replicas of the world-famous Green Gables farm house. Guess where Anne’s room is.
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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 our Facebook page (Bala's Museum with memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery) has served kindred spirits around the globe,
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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.
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Tips
on how to plan an Anne of Green Gables Birth Day party
Bala’s Museum can supply everything you need for an Anne of Green Gables Birthday party, from goodie bags to prizes. Click here
for step by step tips. |
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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.
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LIcensed
by Heirs of L.M. Montgomery
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The Township of Muskoka Lakes has designated us as a Heritage Property.
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We are now a Literary Landmark!
2022 was a banner year for Bala as we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s arriving in Bala in July, 1922. Our museum was the tourist home called Treelawn where Montgomery and family had their meals. The two weeks spent in Bala inspired LMM to write The Blue Castle, a coming-of-age novel and Muskoka love story set entirely in Muskoka!
We are honoured to have a plaque that designates the former Treelawn Tourist Home as a Heritage Property withn the Township of Muskoka Lakes.
Free freckles
Anne whacks Gilbert!
Anne and Diana tea party
A mouse in the custard!
Saving Minnie May
Waiting for Matthew
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