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Joseph Schneider Haus Museum & Gallery

The Joseph Schneider Haus Museum and Gallery is a community museum located in downtown Kitchener. The heart of the complex is the Georgian frame farmhouse built by one of the area's first pioneers, Joseph Schneider, a Pennsylvania-German Mennonite. A local landmark and Kitchener's oldest dwelling, the c. 1816 homestead was restored and furnished to period and opened as a living history museum in 1981. Adjacent to the Museum is a modern wing which houses administrative support areas, exhibit ga lleries, programming space, artifact vault and resource library. Among the Museum's stored collections is the prestigious Canadian Harvest Collection of German-Canadian Folk Art which preserves significant artifacts from areas of Germanic settlement across Canada.

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