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Nova Scotia Museums Listed by Location
| Lawrence
House Museum |
Maitland,
Hants County |
June
1 - Oct.15 |
Lawrence House
is representative of the homes of Nova Scotia's prosperous small-town
shipbuilders, owners, and captains in the Golden Age of Sail. Built
in about 1870, it overlooked William D. Lawrence's shipbuilding yard
on Cobequid Bay.
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| Fundy
Geological Museum |
Parrsboro |
Year
Round |
This important
and exciting museum exhibits minerals, fossils, and models that help
the visitor explore prehistoric landscape and life in the Bay of Fundy
region. The Museum is set against a natural backdrop featuring the
world's highest tides, rich mineral deposits, and the famous fossil
cliffs. Learn about Canada's oldest dinosaurs and reptiles.
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Balmoral Grist Mill |
Balmoral Mills |
June
1 - Oct.15 |
In the 1880s, Alexander
MacKay's water-powered grist mill was just one of five mills on Matheson's
Brook grinding wheat, oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat into flour
and meal. Today it is one of the few mills left in the province
and offers visitors the opportunity to see flour being ground and
to examine the mill's unique Scottish oat-drying kiln.
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| Sutherland
Steam Mill |
Denmark |
June
1 - Oct.15 |
By the late 1800s,
steam was replacing water as the motive force for industry in Nova
Scotia. Alexander Sutherland built his mill in 1894, near the railway
rather than by water. The Sutherland operation supplied the local
community with rough-sawn wood, dressed lumber, wagons, carriages,
windows, doors and fancy trim for houses.
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| McCulloch
House Museum |
Pictou |
call between June1-Oct.15 for special events
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Historic McCulloch
House, built about 1806, was home to Reverend Dr. Thomas McCulloch,
father of non-sectarian education in Nova Scotia and a leading naturalist.
On display are some of McCulloch's furnishings, an original Audubon
bird print, and samples from his scientific collection.
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| Museum
of Industry |
Stellarton |
Year
Round |
Built on the site
of the Foord Pit of the Albion Mines, this museum chronicles the impact
of industry on the people, economy and landscape of the Province.
The museum's exhibits tell the story of how changes in technology
and the ways people worked affected their lives and their communities.
See Canada's oldest surviving locomotives, Samson and Albion, an historic
model railway layout, a belt-driven working machine shop, and a collection
of Nova Scotia's unique Trenton glass.
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