Best Museums In Kingston To Visit

Daizsanto
3 min readMay 18, 2023

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The best time to book flights to Kingston is between June to August, when the weather is comfortable.

Martello Alley

Stop by our store at 203 Wellington St., or anytime on our new 360 interactive website. It is accessible via the”Virtual Shop” “Virtual Shop” on our website. A fun and quirky art gallery situated in an old alleyway located situated in the heart of central Kingston Ontario. It’s Ontario’s only alley art gallery. The gallery’s indoor location is near the at the end of the alley just behind the courtyard. There are other “shops” you will see aren’t really shops in the sense that they’re facades designed to create a small “village”. Presently, there’s an “fleuriste” (flower shop) as well as an “poissonnerie” (fish shop). Actually, these are the walls behind the restaurant that is next to it. The entrance to”fleuriste “fleuriste” is not a door, but the door leading to”poissonnerie “poissonnerie” is the back door that delivers food into the eatery. “The “lighthouse” and the “buoy” complete with nest and seagull serve to house and protect the restaurant’s garbage cans and the kitchen oil drum. The theme “shops” serve as backdrops for outdoor art pieces which are displayed in the area.

Military Communications and Electronics Museum

The Main Gallery of the Military Communications and Electronics Museum includes a variety of exhibits that focus on the history of Military Communications and Electronics Branch starting in the late 19th century until the present day.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Agnes Etherington The Art Centre, which is located in the city of Agnes Etherington highly-researched art museum that is located on the historical campus at Queen’s University. It reveals the most significant art traditions of the past as well as the latest innovations by offering a variety of year-round events and outreach that are staged over eight gorgeous galleries and which include the Bieler Studio, and assorted public spaces, including the elegant rooms from the period of the Etherington House. Its superb collections — numbering over 17,000 works — include cutting edge contemporary art and fine examples of Canadian historical art, Indigenous art and artifacts, and material culture including an unusual collection of Canadian Historical Dress and the Lang Collection of African Art. Its Bader Collection, focusing on Rembrandt and his school, is centered around more than 200 works that date back to his time in the Dutch Golden Age, including two exquisite portraits and portraits by Rembrandt.

Peter Tosh Museum

The museum honors the works and life and work of Peter Tosh, Jamaica’s global music icon and the founder of the popular reggae band, the Wailers. Visitors will experience a multi-dimensional experiences that include narratives, visual and interactive elements to look into what happened to Peter Tosh. The collection includes Tosh souvenirs is displayed open to the public.

Trench Town Culture Yard

This museum is a real site that was home to Bob Marley when he first arrived in Kingston. It’s not all about Bod Marley, there is more to what we can offer, the authentic the History about the community of Trench Town. It’s as well about other artists and other personalities who devoted their time to music, and also for putting the Trench Town name on the map.

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