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Nova Scotia Museum

Today, the Nova Scotia Museum, consisting of 28 museum sites, is the most decentralized museum in Canada. It is also one of the oldest provincial museums in the country.

Children viewing a museum exhibit

Museum of Natural History

Haifax
View of pond in front of Balmoral Grist Mill Museum

Balmoral Grist Mill

Tatamagouche
Blacksmith at work

Sherbrooke Village

Sherbrooke
Prescott House Museum

Prescott House

Port Williams
Two yellow dory boats

Dory Shop Museum

Shelburne
Shand House Museum

Shand House Museum

Windsor
View of Perkins House museum

Perkins House Museum

Liverpool
Piano and lounge chair inside a yellow room

Uniacke Estate Museum Park

Mount Uniacke

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Museum exhibit titled "Mission to the Gully"

Collections

Our collections, over a million objects and growing, reflect the incredible diversity of Nova Scotia’s human and natural histories. Curators, researchers, interpreters and collections care professionals work with artifacts and specimens representing archaeology, ethnology, botany, geology, cultural history, and zoology. Take some time to explore and learn about our collections, research, exhibits, publications, and behind the scenes work at the Nova Scotia Museum.

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Stories

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An important early step in soil development is the growth of a biological soil crust – a mixture of microflora (mosses, lichens, algae, bacteria) and microfauna (nematodes, insects, mites, protists) that…
Inside view of Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
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In Canada the first day of August is designated Emancipation Day, recognizing the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. In Nova Scotia, Minister of African Nova Scotian…
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