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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.
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.
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.
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.
McCulloch House Museum Pictou call between June1-Oct.15 for special events
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.
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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