Guided tours six days a week (closed Saturdays). Open seven days a week in the July and August.

Enjoy rotating displays and exhibits including a general store and native archaeology site in Robinson House and a Victorian period home in Henry House. Guy House serves as the Museum’s administration building with the Archives, Verna Conant gallery and museum gift shop located here.

The Museum is located in Oshawa’s beautiful Lakeview Park at the bottom of Simcoe Street South.


Office Hours Tuesday to Friday 8am – 4pm
July and August Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm

Tour times Tuesday to Friday 12pm – 4pm
Sunday 12pm-4pm
July and August Monday to Sunday 12pm – 5pm

Other times by appointment.

Guy House was the home of Harbour Master James Odgers Guy. Its contruction is typical of a frame farm house reminiscent of the mid to late 1830's. Opened in 1985, as the administrative centre of the Museum, Guy House also houses the Sydenham Country Store and the Oshawa Community Archives.

Thomas Henry, a local minister and active participant in the development of Port Oshawa, moved his family into this stone house in 1850. Even after Thomas’ death in 1879, the house remained in the Henry family until 1920 when it was purchased by Samuel and George McLaughlin. They in turn sold the property to the town for one dollar. Henry House is portrayed as a period home typical of the lifestyle of the Henry family from the 1850’s through the 1890’s.

This home was built by John Robinson, a Quaker, in the early 1850's. Constructed from locally-made yellow brick, the house has a gambrel or barn-type roof. A simple family home for much of its life, Robinson House now contains a series of galleries and changing exhibits focusing on various topics in Oshawa's history from native settlement through to early twentieth century industrial expansion and development.