Strategic Plan 2024-2028
Mission
Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol engages the community in preserving, sharing, and fostering culture in Huron County.
Vision
Imagine More: Exhibits, programs, and collections that reflect evolving community stories.
Principles
The following principles will act as a guide to implementing this strategic plan.
Accessibility Lens
Undertakings of the Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol will be developed with accessibility as a core component, in alignment with County and departmental accessibility plans.
Sustainability Lens
Undertakings of the Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol will be developed with sustainability as a core component, in alignment with County and departmental sustainability goals.
Strategic Priorities
Welcoming & Inclusive
Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol strives to be equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible.
Goals
- Evolving exhibits to grow a deeper understanding of Huron County’s stories.
- Reflecting local community through diversified collections.
- Empowering a wide range of voices and building knowledge through engaging programming.
Storytelling
Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol creates and provides opportunities to share diverse cultural stories and histories.
Goals
- Sharing exhibits to connect Huron County’s people, places, and past.
- Curating a comprehensive collection of artifacts, archives, and stories.
- Developing programs that reexamine existing narratives and diversify interpretations.
Capacity
Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol explores opportunities to build capacity and strengthen core services.
Goals
- Identifying resources and space to develop and deliver evolving exhibitions.
- Securing appropriate spaces and allocating resources and staff to preserve collections.
- Aligning staff, resources, and tools with strategic priorities to offer programming that engages and serves the community.
Youth Strategy
The Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol Youth Strategy builds upon the 2019-2023 Strategic Plan 2019-2023 which identified the goal to “Engage and inspire the next generation of Huron County by sparking an interest in their heritage and culture.” Identified actions at that time included a strategy to engage with every Huron County student before their graduation and to accomplish this by implementing a strategy targeted towards youth and schools. This strategy provides guidance and description for work already ongoing to achieve these objectives.
Diversity Statement
The Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol designs its exhibits, programs, events, and services through a lens that includes a wide range of ideas, voices and viewpoints that reflect and engage Huron County’s diverse community.
Land Acknowledgement Statement
We acknowledge that the land we stand upon today is the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples and is connected to the Dish with One Spoon wampum, under which multiple nations agreed to care for the land and its resources by the Great Lakes in peace.
We also acknowledge the Upper Canada Treaties signed in regards to this land, which include Treaty #29 and Treaty #45 ½.
We recognize First Peoples’ continued stewardship of the land and water as well as the historical and ongoing injustices they face in Canada. We accept responsibility as a public institution and as treaty people to renew relationships with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit people through reconciliation, community service, and respect.