Donations

Lang Pioneer Village Museum was established by the County of Peterborough in 1967 to celebrate and preserve the rural history of the area. With 25 acres of property, over 30 historic buildings and more than 50,000 artifacts, the Museum has many needs to ensure the protection of our region’s cultural heritage for the enjoyment and education of generations to come.  

Your financial donation assists us in everything from maintaining the historic buildings and grounds, restoring and preserving artifacts, to running our daily/special programming and keeping the doors open to the past for all of us to learn from and enjoy.

Donations can be made by cash, cheque or online.

The County of Peterborough is authorized to issue tax receipts for charitable donations. A tax receipt will be issued for any donation of $100.00 or more. 

Please send your donations to:
Lang Pioneer Village Museum
470 Water Street
Peterborough, Ontario
K9H 3M3 

Please make cheques payable to “Lang Pioneer Village Museum” and provide us with your name and mailing address. If you would like to speak with someone about making your donation to Lang Pioneer Village Museum, please e-mail info@langpioneervillage.ca or call 705-295-6694.

To make a donation online, please visit our Online Museum Shop.

Thank you for your interest in the care and protection of Lang Pioneer Village Museum.  

Artifact Donations

Are you interested in donating an artifact to Lang Pioneer Village Museum? We greatly appreciate you thinking about the Museum as a recipient of your object donations.  However, like many museums, we are faced with very limited storage space so must be very selective in any new acquisitions to our collections.  We ask all potential donors to complete an Intent to Donate Form with as much information as possible.  This will help determine the suitability of an object to be added to the collection.  We also request that you add photographs, if possible, especially of any identifying features (manufacturer’s mark, condition, etc.).

A completed Intent to Donate Form, photographs, and inquiries can be emailed to the Museum Curator at collections@langpioneervillage.ca.

Volunteering

If you would like to support the Museum but are unable to do so financially, please consider volunteering! Volunteers are an integral part of museum operations. For more information, please visit our Volunteering page.