The purpose of the Foundation is to enhance the care of the artifacts.

Since 1996, the all volunteer Pickering Museum Village Foundation
has partnered with businesses, community groups and volunteers with heritage projects large and small at the museum village.

The Foundation has:

• funded research and feasibility projects for the Brougham Central Hotel and a condition assessment of the BCH to reflect its many roles throughout time from its probable origin as a single home in 1822 through its time as a temperance hotel to the present.
• enlisted the talents of Ajax Creative Arts to provide drawings of the buildings and produced “If walls could talk”, a collection of the drawings and short history of each building.
• invited Glendale Tennis Club to assist with interior lighting of the schoolhouse.
• installed a cairn and bell in front of the Puterbaugh Schoolhouse.
• formed a partnership with Benjamin Moore Paints to fund the interior restoration of the 1853 Bible Christian Chapel. Its interior walls, ceiling and floor were patched and painted by Foundation members and friends. New pews were constructed and appropriate lighting was donated by a local blacksmith.
• launched our first joint project with the city. In 1996 an early 1800s log house was donated to Pickering Museum Village by the Puterbaugh family and descendant Louise Parkes. This building officially opened in June, 2000 as our schoolhouse.
• obtained a grant from Canada Trust Friends of the Environment and assisted with heritage tree and shrub planting in the museum village.
• funded the installation of cairn and donated bell in front of the Puterbaugh Schoolhouse.
• provided assistance to Bloomers and Britches, the museum village heritage gardeners. They, in return, have made substantial donations back to the Foundation.
• supported volunteers when they made a replica of the 1837 Rebellion Banner
• funded repairs and cleaning of the 1890 reed pump organ in the Chapel.
• funded the purchase of computer hardware and a digital camera to the museum village for cataloguing artifacts.
• purchased the Harry Foster document collection and presented it to the museum village in 2003.
• partnered with Sears for new maintenance tools for the Gas and Steam Barn.
• presented the City of Pickering with a cheque for $250,000
• funded relocation of the drive shed to make way for the Brougham Central Hotel
• funded studies on the Brougham Central Hotel