Welcome!
The Timber Village
Museum is located on Hwy 17, next to the Tourism Information Centre. The Museum
showcases local art and history exhibits, as well as a gift shop that offers
unique artisan goods, souvenirs, books, maple syrup, and much more!
We welcome school
groups, community organizations, residents, and non-residents to visit our
site. Arrangements can be made for Museum staff and volunteers to lead guided
tours and special programming activities. Please visit our Programming &
Events page to learn more.
Contact Information
Timber Village Museum
243A Causley Street, P.O. Box 628
Blind River
Ontario, P0R 1B0
Phone: 705-356-7544
Opening Hours: Closed December 22, 2018 until March 4th, 2019
Monday to Friday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from March 4th until May 12th
Open daily 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from May 13th to August 23rd
Email: museum@blindriver.ca
Currently on Display
Dactylographies
March 4th to April 26
Dactylografies opens the door to the conversations between Isabelle
Michaud and Jonathan Brodbeck. This mother and son team worked to
create paintings that tell their everyday stories. Using a typewriter from the 1960’s, Jonathan
wrote about his everyday life, his interests, his favourite tv shows and the
start of his Senior Year. Inspired by these writings, Isabelle manipulated the
text to be introduced and balanced with other formal elements in the paintings
such as the pixel, the closed boxes, the clouds, the plant-like and sometimes
spine-like typewriting features. The letter and the typewriter represent a
period of time when the analog was common, when the end of a sentence was
marked by the sound of a bell, a connection to the physical representation of
words.