Firefighters' Museum of Nova Scotia	Yarmouth	Year Round
You can see almost every kind of fire engine ever used in Nova Scotia in this Museum, from an 1819 Hopwood and Tilley hand-drawn hand pumper to an 1863 Amoskeag steam fire engine, to a 1933 motor-driven Chev pumper. Smaller items on display include photos of famous fires, rubber and leather water buckets, and antique toy fire engines.

The Acadian Village of Nova Scotia / Le Village Historique Acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse	West Pubnico	June 15-Oct.15
Located on a 17-acre panoramic site overlooking the Pubnico Harbour, the Acadian Village presents and interprets Nova Scotia's Acadian heritage. On site, visit houses, a fish shed and a blacksmith shop. The Village is located in Pubnico, the oldest Acadian region still inhabited by descendants of its founder, Baron Philippe Muis-d'Entremont. Learn an Acadian phrase from bilingual guides. Tour the site, interpretive displays, and Visitors Reception Centre.
Perkins House Museum	Liverpool	June 1 - Oct.15
This house was built in 1766 for Simeon Perkins, merchant, judge and Member of the Assembly. Perkins also kept a remarkable diary in which he recorded events in his large family's life such as their vaccinations for smallpox, just at the period when this procedure was first being used.
Ross-Thomson House Museum	Shelburne	June 1 - Oct.15
Built about 1785, this double building served as house and store for George and Robert Ross (and later their clerk Robert Thomson and his family) during the Loyalist boom in Shelburne, when the community was twice the size of Halifax and larger than Montreal.
North Hills Museum	Granville Ferry	June 1 - Oct.15
Enter this simple 200-year-old farm house and be amazed at the elegant Georgian decor created by antiques collector Robert Patterson, who lived here among his fine collection of 18th-century paintings, furniture and furnishings. Imagine living a comfortable life surrounded by beautiful things, like the dresser filled with New Hall dishes from the1700s, rare Worcester and Spode china, and superb glass.
Ross Farm Museum	New Ross	Year Round
Capture the flavour of country life in early Nova Scotia. Savor the delicious aromas of good food cooking over an open hearth or the fresh smell of wood shavings in the Cooper Shop. Walk alongside a team of oxen at work and touch cows, sheep, hens, pigs and more kittens than you can count. Explore living history and agriculture on an 1800s family farm.
Prescott House Museum	Starrs Point	June 1 - Oct.15
Built as the home of the Honourable Charles Prescott about 1814, this is one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in Nova Scotia. The house was restored by Mary Allison Prescott in the 1930s. She added a fine collection of oriental rugs, and a selection of early needlework samplers. The Museum also has an elegant garden and extensive grounds with some unusual trees.
Shand House Museum	Windsor	June 1 - Oct 15
With its original indoor plumbing, electricity, and factory-made furniture, Shand House provides an excellent link with Nova Scotia's industrial and economic history. The house has wonderful woodwork throughout and a tall tower from which visitors can see the Avon River and surrounding countryside for miles.
Haliburton House Museum	Windsor	June 1 - Oct.15
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was a lawyer, judge, historian, and member of the Legislative Assembly and the British House of Commons, but he is best remembered as the creator of Sam Slick, the fictional Yankee clock peddler, whose witty sayings are still used. Haliburton's villa, set in a 16-hectare (40-acre) estate overlooking Windsor, was built in 1836. A series of walking trails now wind throughout this extensive estate with its tall trees and old apple orchard.
Uniacke Estate Museum Park	Mount Uniacke	June 1 - Oct.15 (Trails Open Year Round)
Experience a grand country mansion and its parkland. Imagine you are visiting Richard John Uniacke, who built this wonderful estate nearly 200 years ago. There are 7 walking trails and a very special house to explore. Antique lovers will delight in the early Wedgwood china, fine George Adams furniture, colonial portraits and furnishings. Birdwatchers will love the Piliated Woodpeckers.
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.
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.
Highland Village/ An Clachan Gàidhealach	Iona	May 20-Oct. 15
The Highland Village is a 43 acre living history museum and cultural centre that interprets, presents and celebrates Nova Scotia's Gaelic language and culture. Overlooking the world famous Bras d'Or Lakes, costumed staff in 10 period buildings take visitors on a journey through 140 years of cultural evolution in Scotland and Nova Scotia. In addition to the museum, the site also features Gaelic programming, special cultural events, Roots Cape Breton Genealogy & Family History Centre, a music research centre and outdoor amphiteathre.
Cossit House	Sydney	June 1 - Oct.15
In 1787 the Reverend Ranna Cossit, the first Anglican minister assigned to Cape Breton, built what is believed to be the oldest surviving house in Sydney. Today his simple one-and-a-half-storey home with its gable roof has been restored to its late-18th-century appearence.
Sherbrooke Village	Sherbrooke	June 1 - Oct.15
Discover the peace and tranquility of village life in old Nova Scotia, unruffled by the gold rush that brought Sherbrooke instant prosperity in the 1860s. Hear the splash of the water-powered sawmill, the squeak of a horse-drawn wagon passing by, the muffled thump of the weaver at her loom or smell newly-shaved wood in the woodturner's shop. Explore more than 25 authentic buildings, from the rare Ambrotype photography studio to the pottery shop.
Fisherman's Life Museum	Jeddore Oyster Ponds	June 1 - Oct.15
This modest house is a typical Nova Scotia inshore fisherman's house of the early 1900s. It has been furnished with the ordinary things of rural living in Nova Scotia fishing communities: a parlour pump organ, hooked mats, grandmother's favorite dishes, and a wood stove.