"It's good to be here again... There's something about Park Corner that isn't in other places..."
-L.M. Montgomery
The Anne of Green Gables Museum is located at Park Corner. It's in the Campbell home that was built by Montgomery's aunt and uncle in 1872. The house still belongs to the Campbell family some 230 years later. This is the house that Montgomery called Silver Bush and it provides the inspiration for her descriptions of the house in her novel Pat of Silver Bush.
The museum houses many antique pieces that were in the house at the time Montgomery would have visited it. There is also a great collection of some of Montgomery's belongings, some original family photos and also first editions of Montgomery's books.
The rooms are small but very well laid out and the house is more spacious than it might appear from the outside.
Three years after Anne of Green Gables was published Montgomery married Ewan Macdonald in the parlour of this house. Tourists still come from all over the world to be married in that room or on the grounds near the Lake of Shining Waters. Montgomery's wedding dress is housed at her birthplace.
I found the museum to be a wonderful tribute to Montgomery's life and work. The grounds are beautiful and it's well worth visiting if you're on PEI.
