News release

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