Ontario museum’s Ojibway Heritage exhibit receives funding boost [Video]

The Scugog Shores Museum, which opens for the season May 21, is receiving a grant of $14,000 for environmental land stewardship programming on site.

The funds are from the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, which supports a range of environmental initiatives, with a primary funding focus on revitalizing, animating and stewarding public green spaces.

The investment will go towards the Museum’s Ojibway Heritage Interpretive Lands revitalization project, which was created in 1997 in collaboration with the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (MSIFN).

The funding will help revitalize the Wigwam on site and Community Services staff are working to create a living exhibit that includes propagating native plant species, rebuilding the Wigwam, and creating a teaching and pollinator garden in 2025.

“The Scugog Shores Museum Village is a vital heritage and educational centre for our community,” said Scugog Mayor Wilma Wotten. “The collaborative education exhibits and artifacts tell the …