Peterborough Museum & Archives — Attraction in Peterborough

Attended the museum on a PA day with my daughters. They have a great playground outside, a nice covered picnic area, and the museum proper has stations throughout with little activities for the kids.

I was amazed by the view of the city from the grounds. Also, I was super surprised to see my family's name mentioned as some above average potato farmers back in the day in Marmora.

It is a nice little museum of local history. As someone who moved to the community, it was great to learn about all the...

Enjoyable museum for adults and kids. Exhibits gear more toward kids 10 and up but there's enough things for our younger kids that they were happily entertained too. Lots of interesting local history, artifacts and characters presented. We spent about 45 minutes with young kids along. There's an audio tour which we didn't use and could have made it a longer, more thorough visit with only older kids or adults. It's also free with an optional/suggested donation of $10/family which felt like great...

Loved it. We had heard about the fossils exhibit and decided that this would be a good time to see the museum as well. It's small and intimate and a great way to learn about local history. The fossils exhibit would have been better had the fauna depicted been local but what can you do if Peterborough paleontology is not as robust. The climate change message was loud and clear being careful not to draw...