Galleries and Exhibits

Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild

Millennium in a Box Exhibit – January 15 – September 28

• This exhibit features the limited-size work of thirty-five artists from across Canada that produced interpretations of where the millennium will lead.

• The pieces represent a variety of areas of the book arts: paper making, calligraphy, paper decorating, design binding, and fine printing.

• On loan from the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild

A Lifetime Day by Day - Five Women and Their Diaries - April 8 - September 28, 2019

• A diary is a daily record of a person’s experiences.
• When we read someone else’s diary we experience both a feeling of familiarity with our own lives and a glimpse of another time and place through the writer’s eyes.
• These women - from Ontario during the last half of the 19th century - wrote about their families and friends, occupations and social interactions, and incidentally about their communities.
• On loan from Archives Ontario

Coming Up Roses Exhibit – June 15 – December 14, 2019

• Explore the history of the rose growing industry that put Richmond Hill on the map as the "rose capital of Canada.”
• Learn how local roses shaped the landscape of the community and created royal and political connections.
• The exhibit showcases items from the Richmond Hill Artifact Collection

Toys remind us of childhood memories and offer a link to the past. Come see the exhibit and explore your inner child.

Meet Me at the Fair Exhibit   

Over the last 200 years Richmond Hill grew due to the surrounding rich farm land. Farmers and their families would gather at least once a year at a fair to network and compete for prizes in livestock and produce. This exhibit explores 150 years of the City’s annual Agricultural Spring Fair.

Helping RH Say Ah! Exhibit 

In the past, the life of a medical doctor was far different from the present day conditions. This exhibit showcases the equipment that Dr. James Langstaff, a doctor in 19^th century Richmond Hill might have handled.

From the history of Richmond Hill’s very own City Crier to mass produced forms of communication such as newspaper, magazines, and television, this exhibit demonstrates the ways communication has changed as well as how it has shaped society.