Hay River Museum Society Heritage Center

Located in Hay River’s Old Town, this museum occupies the community’s former Hudson’s Bay store, built in 1949. In it, you’ll find displays showcasing the various eras of the town’s history, as well as exhibits on Métis and K’atl’odeeche Dene culture.

When you visit our Museum, one of our Staff will provide a  friendly relaxed tour of our Old Hotel Building – Zoo and all the outdoor exhibits.

Ice Cream Shack

Every Saturday from 11am – 4pm we operate a small Ice Cream Shack, Ice Cream Cones for a Toonie.  Surrounding the Ice Cream Shack, we have in a small park like area with Picnic tables where  people tend to linger.

Summer Camps Morning at the Museum

We have and are hosting the English and French Summer Camp Kids  at the Museum.  Their time here includes a Museum Tour, lawn games, art project, Scavenger Hunt and of course Ice Cream Cones.

Art at the Museum

All summer long we have tables set up with art supplies, visitors can paint a rock, a fish or a Bird House.

We have a Friendship Rock Garden (paint a rock and add to the garden, or take a rock if you are feeling down) and a Wiggles the Rock Snake (paint a rock and add to Wiggles, lets see how long he can grow) which our local Girl Guides created and presented to the Museum.

We are slowly covering our fence with painted wooden fish,(originally an idea by the Town’s Beautification Committee, they gave away fish to be painted then put them up all over town).

We have erected a frame to hold approximately 100 Wooden Bird Houses, built by staff and painted by visitors and community members to create a Bird House Hotel.  We build and dispersed over 40 bird houses in one week last season, we will start attaching the bird houses tomorrow.