3 Best Places To See in Kingston

“Canada's Penitentiary Museum is devoted to preserving and explaining the history of federal prisons. Canada's Penitentiary Museum is one of the award-winning museums. The museum is located within Kingston Penitentiary's former Warden's quarters. They also provide general institutional histories for all Canadian federal penitentiaries and information on specific operations, practices, customs, descriptions, and more. Many visitors admire the limestone architecture that has made Kingston world-famous as "the Limestone City." Canada's Penitentiary Museum attracts more than 50,000 visitors each year. The volunteer group, "Friends of the Penitentiary Museum", is dedicated to preserving and interpreting this fascinating history.”

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“PumpHouse Museum is a 19th-century pumping station with a discovery center. PumpHouse Museum is home to Kingston's original waterworks and pumping station and hosts several exhibits each season. The museum is situated in one of the oldest original waterworks in Canada, where steam-powered pumps provided the first hot water for Kingston. Throughout North America, only six equally preserved water pumping stations exist. The history follows the conditions that contributed to the development of the PumpHouse Museum as infrastructure. The museum offers outdoor group walking tours, indoor private children's education programs, and indoor private guided museum tours.”

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“Military Communications & Electronics Museum provides expansive gallery space spanning over twenty thousand square feet. The museum tells the exciting narratives of past and present Military Communications and Electronics Branch members and pays homage to the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Military Communications & Electronics Museum maintain the integrity of its mission, and the museum selectively adds objects to its collection that align with its mandate. This impressive collection contains military artifacts and archival materials intricately linked to the Military Communications and Electronics Branch and the museum's predecessors. Military Communications & Electronics Museum's ongoing operations are made possible through the generous support of CFB Kingston and the Department of National Defence, which provide yearly grants.”

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