Doon Heritage Village is closed for the season.

Our main gallery exhibit is called "What Makes Us Who We Are?" and traces the 12,000 year human history of Waterloo Region, from Indigenous peoples, to community settlement at the start of the 1800s, to the manufacturing heydays of the 1900s, to the high tech sector boom of recent years.

Visitors will discover the reasons why people from around the world have immigrated to this region of Canada - whether they came for love, education, a better life, a new job or to find freedom.

Tickets are available for 90-minute bookings and capacity is limited to enable safety protocols that include physical distancing and cleaning. Reduced hours of operation will be Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. The last available admission begins at 2:30 p.m. Please note, Doon Heritage Village is closed for the season.

Tickets must be purchased in advance.

COVID-19 Precautions in Place for Your Visit:

• Reduced visitor capacity
• One-way direction flow through exhibit and village
• Physical distancing maintained for all visitors and staff
• Increased cleaning of common area surfaces
• Availability of alcohol-based hand sanitizer throughout the museum
• We ask all visitors to wear a face mask to protect our staff and other visitors. Face masks, combined with hand washing and physical distancing can reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Information for Region of Waterloo Museums Members:

• All current memberships have been extended to account for the time the museum was closed.
• Book your visit in advance to reserve your place. Walk-in visits may be unavailable due to reduced visitor capacity.
• Choose the date and time for your visit, then enter your 8-digit membership number (on the back of your membership card, underneath the barcode) as the Promo Code to access free membership tickets.
• If you are having trouble accessing your free member tickets, please call us at 519-748-1914.

Please call us to inquire about applicable discounts, including members from reciprocal museum partners - 519-748-1914 (Saturday and Sunday).

As per the Province of Ontario’s document A Framework for Reopening our Province: Stage 2 they recommend that heritage institutions like the Region of Waterloo Museums collect this information for the purposes of contact tracing. This information would only be shared with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in the event that an individual who attended the museum tests positive for Covid-19, on our about the time you attended.