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.
2024-2028 Strategic Plan

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.