It will be an exciting day Saturday at Glanmore House as the National Historic Site celebrates two big milestones: the 50th anniversary of its opening as a museum and 140 years since its construction.
The museum is marking both occasions by hosting an anniversary fair featuring music, a magic show, croquet and old-fashioned carnival games on the front lawn.
The public is invited to bring picnic blankets or lawn chairs to enjoy entertainment by the Belleville Concert Band, Fiddle Earth, Jennifer Brant and Cue the Funk.
There will also be a magic show by Doc Century.
Andy Forgie will perform during the welcoming ceremony at 1 p.m. and cake and lemonade will be served.
Museum Education and Marketing Coordinator Melissa Wakeling says the fair is a free event and it will also be free to visit the house on Saturday.
Wakeling has worked at Glanmore for 23 years and says a lot has changed at the museum since it opened.
“We have done a lot of interior restoration so the historic house looks closer to what it would have looked like originally than it ever has before. We’re trying to incorporate more access to some of the rooms so the spaces that you have to look into a room have been made larger.”
“So you can sit on the furniture. You can take one of the albums from ’73 and put it on the record player and listen to some tunes. You can watch a 1973 clip of The Price is Right on the television. There’s games, there’s toys, there’s all sorts of things from the 1970s and they’re all interactive.”
