With 27 provincial museums and interpretive centres, 13 national historic sites, and dozens of community-based museums, Nova Scotia offers plenty of history to explore. Our museum network celebrating everything from the fisheries to fossils, and whales to woollen mills. This ensures that an exciting excursion into our vivid history is waiting around every corner.

Museum Exhibitions for all Interests

There are hundreds of temporary and permanent exhibits that will captivate, enlighten, and amaze you. With a calendar full of workshops, tours, celebrations, and demonstrations, our award-winning museums offer deep experiences into living history.

• At the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, take a guided ghost story and marine folklore tour with an interpreter. 
• At the Cape Breton Miners Museum, get in a coal car and go far beneath the surface of the Earth as a retired coal miner guides you through the deeps. 
• Board a salt bank schooner tied wharf-side and sit in the galley when you visit the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Lunenburg. 
• Sherbrooke Village’s "Hands to History" program offers a unique opportunity to spend two days living in the 1860s. 
• At the award-winning Fundy Geological Museum, go on a Triassic-Jurassic Dinosaur Field Trip where Canada’s oldest dinosaurs once roamed.

From military museums to historic gardens, there’s an epic adventure back in time for everyone here in Nova Scotia's museums.