Top rated Heritage museums in Ontario to elevate your visit (Updated November, 2023)

Top rated Heritage museums in Ontario

Experience the best that Ontario has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 36 places from Heritage museum category.

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Canadian Military Heritage Museum

Museum

This roomy museum with guided tours features artifacts relating to Canada's military history.

4.80 (155 reviews)

Smiths Falls Heritage House Museum

Museum

👍👍 Its always the people and their behaviour , support and attitude towards customers makes the place memorable and the staff at this place succeeded in that by helping me to organize my engagement party. Thanks to Sienna, Quinn, Megan and Aiden for the support, and help and this will be remembered fo...

4.80 (78 reviews)

Workers Arts & Heritage Centre

Museum

👍👍 Amazing exhibit on the clothing industry. Wonderful architecture

4.80 (72 reviews)

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

Heritage museum

Museum featuring dozens of Canadian military planes, plus aviation exhibits & flight simulators.

4.70 (3.9K reviews)

Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre

Museum

Museum with displays of historic bushplanes, aerial firefighting equipment & a flight simulator.

4.70 (1K reviews)

Lang Pioneer Village Museum

Heritage museum

Village museum with over 25 restored 19th-century buildings, costumed interpreters & a gift shop.

4.70 (406 reviews)

Jet Aircraft Museum

Museum

This aviation museum at the airport displays Royal Canadian Air Force jets & artifacts.

4.70 (184 reviews)

Alton Mill Arts Centre

Art center

👍👍 First time here, and we really enjoyed our visit. We got to walk about the mill and look at cool pieces of art and history. We spoke with some of the artists that were there and even bought a painting and a few little items to take home with us. We got to step into the blacksmith and see what was g...

4.70 (143 reviews)

Anderson Farm Museum

Museum

Visitors can explore the barn & buildings of this 1920s former dairy farm & scenic surrounds.

4.70 (138 reviews)

Gay Lea Dairy Museum & Co-operative Education Centre

Museum

👍👍 Great Place. The museum is well stocked, curated masterfully. Lots of historic artefacts like various kinds of milk bottles as they evolved over the years, diary equipment, butter churners, milk trucks and so much more. Also some farm equipment (vintage) in the basement as well. Staff is very friend...

4.70 (33 reviews)

Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum

Museum

Museum featuring exhibits on Waterloo's history, plus the 24-acre Doon Heritage Village.

4.60 (784 reviews)

Osgoode Hall

City courthouse

Architecturally significant 19th-century building currently housing law offices & courts.

4.60 (347 reviews)

Pickering Museum Village

Open air museum

😠 We were really looking forward to this experience as a family. Unfortunately the whole thing just fell short. It has such potential to be amazing. The grounds are beautiful and the history can be felt. However, it was a very short tour. The walk through the village with your own audio tape is not th...

4.60 (228 reviews)