Battle of the Châteauguay
National Historic Site

Beauharnois Generating Station

Biophare

Blockhaus de la rivière-Lacolle

Chambly Canal
National Historic Site

Coteau-du-Lac
National Historic Site

Électrium, the Hydro-Québec Electricity Interpretation Centre

Exporail, The Canadian Railway Museum

Expression, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe

Fort Chambly
National Historic Site

Fort Lennox
National Historic Site

La Maison amérindienne

Maison Lenoblet-du-Plessis

Maison LePailleur

Maison nationale des Patriotes

Missisquoi Museum

Musée des beaux-arts
de Mont-Saint-Hilaire

Musée du costume
et du textile du Québec

Musée du Haut-Richelieu

Musée régional
de Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Muséobus,
the Children’s Museum

MUSO – Musée de société
des Deux-Rives

Plein sud, Centre d’exposition en art actuel

Quebec Museum of Archaeology

Saint-Ours Canal
National Historic Site

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The museum’s educational activities, offered in May, June, August, September and October, let students travel back in time and learn the fascinating history of the people, families and businesses that have shaped the region’s history for the past 200 years.

Preschool and Elementary, all Cycles
Discovering the museum
This tour allows students to learn more about regional history through the collections displayed by the museum. Throughout the tour, there are organized activities that help the students make discoveries.

Museum in your room – a classroom workshop
This activity transports the Missisquoi Museum to the classroom and lets students discover the daily life of the first settlers. A number of themes are dealt with, including daily tasks, clothing, food and butter churning, school, writing and recreation. For this activity, the museum provides guides for teachers, a class work plan and instruction booklets for games and crafts, as well as everyday objects and handcrafted objects used in the past.

Elementary, Cycles 2 and 3
Adopt a heritage child
In this activity, the study of old tombstones lets students learn what life was like for children in the early 19th century. Students visit a local cemetery and, selecting a child’s tombstone, use archival and other documents to reconstruct the conditions of his or her life. Students become aware of the causes of children’s illness in that period.

A workshop on the daily lives of children and the challenges they faced at the beginning of the 19th century is also available on demand.

Curator for a day
Students experience what it is like to be a museum curator by creating a display using artifacts from the museum’s collection.

Click!…at first sight
This activity offers students a chance to learn more about the history of photography through old cameras and photographs in the museum’s collection. They can also dress in period costumes and pose for an old-fashioned photo shot.

Cost: $1.00 per student
Length of activity: 1 hour or more, depending on activity
Reservations: (450) 248-3153