The Thunder Bay Historical Museum, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada is operated by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society founded in 1908 by Peter McKellar as the Thunder Bay Historical Society. Presently it is housed in the renovated former Fort William police station near the city hall. The building has three storeys and a storage annex.

The first floor gallery features permanent exhibits on various aspects of local history (medical, mining, military, photography etc.). The second floor gallery known as the James Murphy Room is dedicated to meetings and programming, including workshops for children. The third floor gallery features the McKellar Games Room and special exhibits.

The museum collects objects of local interest from ceramics, dolls, furniture, military memorabilia, and pictures to vehicles like a fire truck. The archives has 130 metres of linear records, 1900 maps and plans, 150,000 photographic images and a 2200 volume library.

The Society produces an annual volume Papers and Records and issues publications on a variety of local and regional interest such as Lake Superior to Rainy River : three centuries of fur trade history and In Search of a Better Life : Emigration to Thunder Bay from a small town in Calabria.

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• Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society