Visitors to the Ingersoll Cheese and Agricultural Museum will be transported to 1917 France this weekend.
INGERSOLL - The Ingersoll Cheese and Agricultural Museum is hosting a special event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
On Sunday the museum grounds will be transformed into a World War One site from the enlistment office and Parade Square to trench warfare training and the 'Battle for Hill 290' (dubbed after the museum's address). Curator Scott Gillies tells Heart FM they are going to have some authentic WWI planes flying overhead that day as well.
"We have aircraft flying in from the Great War Flying Museum out of Brampton, so we have put in a request for the Red Baron and Snoopy to swoop in over the grounds, so watch the skies on Sunday June 11th."
Gillies says this immersive interactive public event is just one way they are commemorating the centennial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and Oxford's own 168th Battalion.
"The Cheese Factory is going to be turned into an enlistment office, so you can go in and sign on to protect king and country. The museum school is going to be transformed into a French Tavern, we have exhibits and hands on activities in the main building relating to the home front. In the park you can do anything from calisthenics and physical training classes to enjoying a narrated fashion show that explains all of the different types of uniforms and clothing that people wore during the first world war."
Everyone is invited to stop by and check it out and experience what life was like during the Great War. Admission is $2 for people 14 years of age and older.
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