Our Mission, Vision and Impact
OUR MISSION
The Niagara Falls Museums is a team of staff and volunteers who are resourceful and enthusiastic in telling the story and preserving the ongoing culture and history of Niagara Falls. We are dedicated to promoting pride of place and engaging the community.
OUR VISION
We will be the centre for historical and cultural activities in Niagara Falls through community awareness, participation and engagement.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Our Current Strategic Plan (2016-2018) sees us achieving this through creating partnerships, improving our image and developing and delivering quality programmes and events for the community. For details about our current plan, please contact the Museum.
2020 COMMUNITY REPORT
2018 COMMUNITY REPORT
Contact the Museum to receive a copy of the report. Below you will find the important statistics and information contained in the report.
NEW PROGRAMMES FOR 2018
Behind the Scenes "Touch Tours"
Drum & Rattle Making Workshop
Podcast taping of "One Dish, One Mic"
ECT - Seniors Stories "Once in a Blue Moon"
Library run Thursday morning pre-school programme
Carousel Players - "Hare & Tortoise" and "One Thing Leads to Another"
Developed new college level education programme
"MEMORyAL" Community Art Project by Dougie Hayz
Real Time Twitter feed of 100th anniversary of the SCOW rescue
BY THE NUMBERS
2018 DONORS
Don Johnson
Cindy Milner in memory of Brian Milner
Brooke Skelton
Heritage Canada
Niagara Investment in Culture
Province of Ontario
Ontario Power Generation
Patterson Funeral Home
Royal Linens
Carolyn Askeland
Beth McKitrick
Ohio History Connection
Ayo Adewumi
John Ainslie
Brenda Rae Skinner
Larry Lemelin
Alonzo Blake Robertson III
Hamilton Public Library, Archives
Al Leake
Lynn Niemi
Todd Arseneault
Anna Large
Niagara Historical Society
Don Jackson
Ron Morel Memorial Museum
Beverly Jewson
Michael Kirchmer
Tony Rotherham
Julia Cossitt
James Healey
Rowena Alsey
Donald Combe
Pamela Willson
Orville Dillenbeck
David Youngs
John Sayers
Charles Hill
Jo Lehman
Paul Hlady
Gordon Jones
Mary Jane Beccaria
2014 COMMUNITY REPORT
Check out our report to find out about what we got up to, statistics and information about our achievements.
2013 ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT
OUR MUSEUMS:
- Employ 13 people in our community (9 FTEs)
- Spends over $300,000 each year on goods and services in our community
- Served over 12,000 visitors on site and over 30,000 virtual visitors in 2013
- Served over 2100 schoolchildren in 2013
- 450 schoolchildren attended our Medieval Week program
- Provides access to all on Thursday nights with free admission after 5pm
- 77% of our casual visitors are from out of town
- Provided interesting and relevant co-op placements to Stamford Collegiate, Niagara College, Brock University and Fleming College Students in 2013
EVENT ATTENDANCE
Has brought residents to the Main and Ferry area to events during:
- Niagara Falls Night of Arts - over 500 attendees
- Family Day (new event) - over 1000 attendees
- March Break (new event) - over 700 attendees over 4 days
- Hear the Cannons Roar (new event) - over 400 attendees
MUSEUMS IN CANADA
- 47.8% of all Canadians 15 or older visited a museum in 2010
- The percentage of Canadians visiting museums has increased by 15.1% since 1992
MUSEUMS IN ONTARIO
- 9.5 million overnight tourists participated in arts and culture activities during their trips in 2010 -representing 22% of all Ontario’s overnight visitors
- The average Ontario arts and culture tourists spends twice as much per trip as does a typical tourist - $667 per trip versus $374
- 44% of North American tourists say that arts and culture was their main reason for travelling for at least one of their trips
For a PDF version of our 2013 Economic Impact Statement, please contact the Museum.