Located next to Lakeside Park, this museum is a great place to learn about the lives of the people who settled Oakville. A tour of the museum will give you a better understanding of the history of the area and is recommended for children. The museum is now closed due to the effects of COVID-19. For now, you can take a self-guided tour of Old Downtown with a mobile audio tour.

Lovely little museum where you can learn about history of Oakville. The garden is exquisite.

Beautiful old structure with heritage value. The house with original furniture and some artifacts. The property is full of history. Beautiful garden with amazing landscape. Very interesting and informative guided tour we had a chance to enjoy at the museum. Also children learned the story about slavery in Canadian history. Highly recommended to visit it with Family.

Absolute must see. 200 years of history compressed into one beautiful estate. Tour guide, Alex, was absolute fantastic! The post office is also a nice added bonus!

What a nice place to spend 2 hours.

No need to buy any tickets. Free admission just a minimal donation if you wish. Guided tour and an in depth visit to the past times of slavery.

Oakville Black History. Looking for some historical adventure? Great for families visit or school trip.This is such a great place for Black community to have an indepth history of how slaves escaped from US to find freedom in Canada. It is such a historical place. My students were taken there on a school trip following up their learning about the Black History we all love it I am sure you'll love it too.

I was taken back to history of Oakville and how the town was founded. Small place but is packed with lots of history and artifacts displayed. One lady was kind enough to take us for a guided tour. I loved it.

Oakville Museum is not so big but worth to visit. You sure can learn something new. It locates aside the lake, and gardening is beautiful in summer and autumn.

One of my favorite spot in Oakville to visit.

House of the founder of Oakville. There's a guided tour that's free but they take donations for support. Worth seeing the pre-electricity and pre-plumbing era.

Great neighborhood to walk around and see old historic homes

Unfortunately closed but I’m enjoying there

As an American who learned about the Underground Railroad in the deep south, this was a refreshing and eye-opening perspective on one of the bravest achievements of mankind.

I visited around the museum this time, but visited the museum couple years ago, l was impressed how much details of authentic lifestyle is reflected throughout the museum wings and display corners

Fantastic park with great views. There is a walkway to lighthouse. Few benches thru out the park. Parking is on the street. Best times to visit are either evening or night. Go when it's full moon. No place to BBQ or swim.

It’s nice to Wally back in time and history. A small museum but interesting. Guided tour also available.

Very good museum about Oakville. It worth to visit

i love it. They have a 1920’s kitchen set up for everyone to see and it’s really great. Staff is lovely. Nice place overall will return.

Amazing experience now that has been updated and even has a media room with important Historical information. 👏🏻

Worth visiting this museum. We came to Lakeside park and saw this museum. Thought of visiting it as it was very close to Lakeside park. General admission is through donation. Guided tour of museum is available. Our guide Natasha showed us the whole museum, tour was very informative. Other side if the museum can be visited on your own. It has ancient typewriters, sewing machine, telephone et,. My son was amazed to see typewriter. He typed a few words too. This section is great for kids.

Great little museum with interesting historical artifacts and stories linked to the property. Well worth the guided tour, no cost but donations accepted and appreciated.

Loved going here for my tour. The staff was super knowledgeable and friendly. Check this place out if you are ever in Oakville!

Beautifully maintained garden. Nice view of Lake Ontario.