Provincial Museums Open for 1999 Season

Most provincially-owned museums in the Nova Scotia Museum family open for the 1999 season on Tuesday, June 1. McCulloch House Museum in Pictou, however, is closed for structural renovations throughout 1999.

Open year-round are the following: Museum of Natural History and Maritime Museum in Halifax; Museum of Industry in Stellarton; Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg; Firefighter's Museum in Yarmouth; and Fundy Geological Museum in Parrsboro. All other museums remain open until Oct. 15.

Three museums --Shand House, Haliburton House and Prescott House

• open Saturday, May 29.

Plan to visit the Nova Scotia Museum family when you travel in the province this summer and fall. Museums can be found in the following locations:

Marine Drive:
Fisherman's Life Museum, Jeddore/Oyster Ponds Sherbrooke Village, Sherbrooke

Metro Cape Breton:
Cossit House, Sydney

Sunrise Trail:
Museum of Industry, Stellarton Balmoral Grist Mill, Balmoral Mills Sutherland Steam Mill, Denmark (McCulloch House, Pictou, is closed in 1999, but interpreters will walk visitors through the grounds of Hector Centre next door)

Glooscap Trail:
Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro Lawrence House Museum, Maitland

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

Lighthouse Route:
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg Ross Farm Museum, New Ross Ross Thomson House & 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

Metro Halifax:
Maritime Museum, Halifax Museum of Natural History, Halifax

arc May 28 1999 12:27 p.m.