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NOTL’s Tiny Museum gets $5,000 power boost
The Tiny Museum is a mobile fixture that's been a feature at several NOTL events annually — here it's seen at the Cherry Festival in 2022. FILE PHOTO

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum is getting a shot of energy from one of the province’s power suppliers, which will support its community outreach work — including its mobile museum, the Tiny Museum.

Ontario Power Generation, which generates half of the electricity for the province, has awarded the museum with a grant of $5,000 through its Power for Change Project.

“We have many wonderful community events during the summer months,” said Sarah Kaufman, the museum’s managing director, in a media release.

“This funding helps the Tiny Museum to be a part of them, and to truly take our museum, and history, ‘out of the box.'”

The mobile museum was created as a pint-sized version of the actual museum on Castlereagh Street, based on an original “tiny house” design.

The museum’s staff use it to curate portable exhibits from its collection, for educational and outreach projects throughout the region.

The exhibits and artifacts are presented in enclosed but viewable display cases and drawers, with a children’s activity tent area set up beside the structure.

The Ontario Power Generation’s Power for Change Project was designed to give back to Ontario and to the communities where the government-owned corporation operates.

“This grant is a testament to Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum’s dedication and the impactful work it is doing for the community,” said Nicole Fabbro, vice president of Niagara operations at Ontario Power Generation.

The Tiny Museum can be visited at the upcoming Pumphouse Arts weekend, the town’s Peach Festival during the second weekend of August, and the museum’s Past is Present Festival on Aug. 6.

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