page_title: Cobourg Museum Foundation
section_title: Purpose
hierarchical_section_title: Cobourg Museum Foundation / Purpose
caption_attribution_description: English: This limestone building, commonly known as the "barracks", is being restored by the Cobourg Museum Foundation for use as the Exhibition Hall of the Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre scheduled to open in 2012. Located at the south-east corner of Durham and Orr Streets in downtown Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
context_page_description: The Cobourg Museum Foundation was incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario on November 22, 1999. Letters Patent of Incorporation were issued on November 22, 1999 with Douglas Sifton, Muriel Edwards and Joan Chalovich as the first directors. The Foundation's creation grew out of the gradual deterioration of a limestone building believed to be the oldest building in the Town of Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
context_section_description: The first of the objects of incorporation was "to acquire, restore and preserve the ancient limestone building known as 'The Barracks', located in the Town of Cobourg in the County of Northumberland, and to dedicate it to public use".  In 2000 the old building was purchased and restoration work begun.  On June 9, 2012 the building was opened to the public as the Exhibition Hall of the Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre, named after two of the founding members.
caption: Cobourg "Barracks" - east view
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