点评:In my opinion, Canadian museums outside of Ottawa and Montreal are generally relatively mediocre and often poor value for money. This museum unfortunately fit both categories, though that wasn't particularly surprising given its location in a smaller medium-sized Canadian city. The combo ticket cost $14.25 when I visited in August 2025; individually, the museum and art gallery cost $6 and $10 respectively. (The staff didn't mention whether those prices were inclusive of tax, and I didn't ask, though any Canadian museum that clearly displays or has staff knowledgeable about whether its prices are inclusive of tax or not deserves a special mention, because this is so infuriatingly inconsistent across the country.)
The museum is worth it by Canadian standards but the art gallery isn’t really: while the exhibition space is very large and spread over two floors, there isn’t a lot to see. When I went, the second floor was a seemingly random collection of sports-related art, including portraits of the 2018-19 Toronto Raptors, a dozen papier-mache soccer balls, and a big I AM THE GREATEST button, none of which were particularly engaging or interesting. I read the exhibition guide front to back to front and again and I still had no idea how these works of art related to the concepts the artists described (which weren't exactly groundbreaking in the first place). The third floor consisted of a series of dark photos of the Canadian wilderness, some richly decorated Hudson’s Bay related drawings and two random 16th century Italian paintings, as well as a view of the Detroit River. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the highlight of the gallery for me was the view. I'd recommend skipping this since the City of Windsor's budget problems aren't going to make it better any time soon.
翻译:在我看来,渥太华和蒙特利尔以外的加拿大博物馆普遍水平一般,而且往往性价比不高。这家博物馆不幸地符合这两个条件,不过考虑到它位于加拿大一个中等规模的小城市,这也不算太意外。我2025年8月参观时,联票价格为14.25加元;单独参观博物馆和美术馆分别需要6加元和10加元。(工作人员没有说明这些价格是否含税,我也没有问,不过任何一家加拿大博物馆如果能清楚地标明价格是否含税,或者工作人员能清楚地说明价格是否含税,都值得特别表扬,因为加拿大各地的票价标准实在太不一致了,令人恼火。)
以加拿大的标准来看,这家博物馆还算值得一去,但美术馆就有点让人失望了:虽然展厅很大,横跨两层,但没什么可看的。我去的时候,二楼似乎杂乱无章地摆放着一些体育相关的艺术品,包括2018-19赛季多伦多猛龙队的肖像画、十几个纸浆足球,以及一枚巨大的“我是最棒的”徽章,这些作品都乏善可陈,毫无吸引力。我把展览指南从头到尾读了好几遍,仍然不明白这些艺术品与艺术家们所描述的概念(其实这些概念本身也并不新颖)有何关联。三楼展出了一系列加拿大荒野的暗色调照片、一些装饰华丽的哈德逊湾公司相关画作、两幅随机挑选的16世纪意大利油画,以及一幅底特律河的风景画。不出所料,对我来说,画廊最大的亮点是那景色。鉴于温莎市的预算问题短期内恐怕难以改善,我建议大家还是别去了。