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It's mostly people - when they clean out their homes - they find some things that are kind of interesting,
and they bring them in to us.
It's always gifts. We don't purchase anything.
So, if anybody has things from North Huron with historical significance, we will accept those,
and try to showcase them the best we can.
Actually, we currently don't have a curator, so it's actually just me, Jenna Howitt.
I am the assistant archival.
It was built in 1907. It used to be the post office.
Where we are standing right now, was where you would come in to get your mail.
It's been in use as a museum from 1977 until now.
The Historical Society took the second floor of the post office, and used it as a museum.
This floor, here, features Alice Munro in the corner, in the nook.
It's right beside her garden, that we've set up for her.
And here we featured the story of her life, her marriage, her children, and of course, her books.
She's even come to visit it from time to time,
so that's pretty exciting for the rest of us.
The room we are in right now is what used to be the parlour, and is now the medical exhibit.
I think the most interesting artifact for me - and it changes from person to person -
is our skeleton.
If you come and see him, you'll notice he is quite small.
He is interesting to see.
Now we're in the basement of the North Huron Museum.
This is the Barn Dance Museum.
This is, by far, our most popular exhibit.
Here, you can see Doc Cruickshank's creation with CKNX Barn Dance.
It is one of the most popular exhibits.
Here, we feature all sort of artifacts from CKNX.
This room has recently been redone.
You'll notice we've got new ceilings, new floors. That's because we had a ceiling cave in.
Thanks to the friends of the museum, and their over 500 hours of volunteer work,
that we are back up and running again.
We're in the military exhibit right now.
Something interesting to note is that we actually have a jail door,
from across the hall in the basement of town hall.
It's been brought over.
We also have the log books of prisoners that have stayed there,
that people can actually go through and look at.
We have archives from the early 1800s to today.
We're trying to make them more accessible to people,
so that when they are coming in, the research can be easily done.
We're always here to help with that.