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

There are literally hundreds of temporary and permanent exhibits that will captivate, enlighten, and amaze you. With a calendar full of workshops, tours, celebrations, demonstrations, parties and more, the experience waiting for you in our award-winning museums goes as deep into living history as you can get.

• Take a guided ghost story and marine folklore tour with an interpreter from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. 
• Go far beneath the surface of the Earth in a coal car with a retired coal miner guiding you through the deeps at the Cape Breton Miners Museum. 
• Sit down in the galley aboard a salt bank schooner tied wharf-side at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Lunenburg. 
• Spend two days living in the 1860s through Sherbrooke Village’s "Hands to History" program. 
• Go on a Triassic-Jurassic Field Trip with the dinosaur-loving crowd from the award-winning Fundy Geological Museum.

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

Related links

• Heritage Directory of Nova Scotia
• Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
• Museum Events Guide
• NS Museum family
• Museum of Natural History