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Nova Scotia Museum - The Family of Provincial Museums

Museums in these areas: Halifax Metro, Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley, South Shore, Northumberland Shore, Yarmouth & Acadian Shores, Cape Breton Island, Eastern Shore.

Nova Scotia Provincial Library

Ottawa House By-The-Sea Museum

Home of the Parrsborough Shore Historical Society, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Parkdale - Maplewood Community Museum

Located inland from the Lighthouse Trail on the south shore of Nova Scotia.

Pier 21

Between 1928-1971, at Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront, 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil. During World War II, 3,000 British evacuee children, 50,000 war brides and their 22,000 children, over 100,000 refugees and 368,000 Canadian troops bound for Europe passed through Pier 21.

Planter Studies Centre

Queens County Museum

Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada. Home of the Thomas H. Raddall Research Centre.

Shelburne County Archives and Genealogical Society

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The Beaton Institute | Cape Breton University - Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Repository of Cape Breton history and the archives of the University College of Cape Breton.

The Shelburne Museum Complex

Includes the Ross-Thomson House, which has the oldest restored store in North America; the Shelburne County Museum, which has the oldest fire pumper in North America; the Dory Shop, where the art of dory-making is demonstrated each day during the summer; the Coyle House, where Tottie's Crafts sell their wares, and the Muir-Cox Shipyard, where the time-honoured craft of wooden boat building is on display daily and where the shipbuilding heritage of the community is portrayed.

Yarmouth County Museum and Archives