Nova Scotia Museums Open for the Season
Most provincially owned museums in the Nova Scotia Museum family opened for the 1998 season Monday, June 1. McCulloch House Museum, Pictou, is closed for renovations this year.
Open year-round are the Museum of Natural History and Maritime Museum (Halifax), Museum of Industry (Stellarton), Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic (Lunenburg), Firefighters' Museum (Yarmouth), and Fundy Geological Museum (Parrsboro). All others are opened until Oct. 15.
The museums:
ON MARINE DRIVE
Fisherman's Life Museum, Jeddore/Oyster Ponds
Sherbrooke Village, Sherbrooke
IN CAPE BRETON
Cossit House, Sydney
ON THE SUNRISE TRAIL
Museum of Industry, Stellarton
Balmoral Grist Mill, Balmoral Mills
Sutherland Steam Mill, Denmark
McCulloch House Museum, Pictou (closed in 1998)
ON THE GLOOSCAP TRAIL
Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro
Lawrence House Museum, Maitland
ON THE EVANGELINE TRAIL
Uniacke Estate Museum Park, Mount Uniacke
Haliburton House Museum, Windsor
Shand House Museum, Windsor
Prescott House Museum, Starr's Point
North Hills Museum, Granville Ferry
ON THE LIGHTHOUSE ROUTE
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg
Ross Farm Museum, New Ross
Ross Thomson House and Store, Shelburne
The Dory Shop, Shelburne
Barrington Woolen Mill, Barrington
Old Meeting House Museum, Barrington
Wile Carding Mill, Bridgewater
Perkins House Museum, Liverpool
Firefighters' Museum, Yarmouth
IN HALIFAX
Maritime Museum, Halifax
Museum of Natural History, Halifax