The Parma Hilton Historical Society Museum, located at the north end of the Parma Town Park Complex, will open for the summer season on Sunday, April 11.
A number of display improvements were made between November 2019 and April 2020, but COVID restrictions kept the museum closed until just before Labor Day last year. Despite the closure, a large number of new artifacts were donated to the museum.
Through its Memorial Fund, the museum was also able to acquire another B. Aylsworth Haines painting. This one, titled “Asters,” was shown at the 33rd Annual Exhibition of the Rochester Art Club at the Memorial Art Gallery in June of 1916. Mr. Haines was a local artist of some note from the late 1800s through the 1930s, and according to a partial list that was discovered, he did over 100 paintings. In addition to his artwork, he was also commissioned to paint the street signs in the village of Hilton, one of which is on display at the Hilton Village Historian’s office.
During the winter of 2019-2020, volunteers also built a demonstration section of timber frame to use as the entryway into the museum’s agriculture display room, which has such items as a Hercules hit-miss engine, donated by Joe Lee and his family, and also a two-person sleigh that was originally owned by the Berridge family on Curtis Road.
The museum will be open on Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m., with the exception of federal holidays. Admission is free. Visitors are asked to adhere to the usual COVID-19 protocols of face masks and social distancing.
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