This list of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
| Name | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural history | information | |||
| History | Local history, wireless communication and Guglielmo Marconi, the tragedy of the S.S. Florizel and other shipwrecks and maritime artifacts | |||
| History | website, life of Sir Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, who was killed in a local 1941 airplane crash | |||
| Open air | website, includes a schoolhouse, sealing interpretation center, fisherman's stage, theatre, art gallery, and visitor reception center | |||
| Open air | website, restored salt fish premises and community | |||
| Art | website, arts centre with art gallery, theater | |||
| Historic house | information, mid-19th century - mid-20th century fishery homestead | |||
| Mining | website, artifacts, equipment and tour of iron ore mine | |||
| History | information, open by appointment, 1879 chapel that was originally constructed as a one-room school | |||
| History | website, local history including pre-historic cultures, explorers and settlers | |||
| History | information, local history | |||
| Multiple | website, local history, contemporary art gallery | |||
| First Nations | website, archeological artifacts and exhibits about the Beothuk settlers | |||
| Multiple | information, includes 1910 Bank of Nova Scotia Museum with local history and culture exhibits, 1920 Reddy Heritage House with period furnishings and the Burin Cottage Hospital Exhibit | |||
| Maritime | website, lighthouse technology and lightkeepers' lifestyles | |||
| Maritime | Lighthouse and 1939 period keeper's residence | |||
| History | website, local history | |||
| History | Fort ruins, exhibits on the fort and the fishing village | |||
| Art | website, located in the Western Union Cable Station building, works by artist Christopher Pratt and changing exhibits | |||
| Archaeology | website, history and artifacts from the Province of Avalon, reproduction 17th century room with kitchen, archaeology dig site | |||
| Historic house | website, 1830s period house built to supply the city's garrison | |||
| History | website, local history, pirates, aviation | |||
| History | website, local history and culture | |||
| Multiple | website, local history, artifacts and culture of the Beothuk and other are settlers; branch of The Rooms. Formerly Mary March Provincial Museum. | |||
| History | information, local history, archaeological artifacts from Maritime Archaic Indians, Dorset Eskimo, recent Indians and Beothuk; interpretation of the 19th Century cod fish hatchery | |||
| History | website, local history and culture | |||
| History | Local history | |||
| Multiple | website, includes exhibits on life and work of the Newfoundland inshore fisherman, Porter House, a typical fisherman's home, and a one-room school | |||
| History | information, local history | |||
| Natural history | Freshwater ecosystems | |||
| History | website, area history and culture, artifacts from shipwrecks | |||
| History | website, local history including aboriginal inhabitants, fur trading pioneers, mining, railroads, hydropower | |||
| Glovertown Museum | History | local history | ||
| History | website, historic working blacksmith shop | |||
| Art | website, part of Grenfell Campus, Memorial University | |||
| Historic house | 19th century period home of Arctic explorer Bob Bartlett, exhibits about his life and travels | |||
| Media | website, information, site of the end of Cyrus West Field's first Transatlantic telegraph cable | |||
| Historic house | website, 1910 period house | |||
| History | information, information, local history, Moravian and Inuit artifacts from the 19th century | |||
| Medical | website, operated by the Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board, 1895 drug store with equipment | |||
| Natural history | Geology of the earth and the province, including volcanoes, earthquakes, rainstorms, climate changes, impact on humans | |||
| History | information, local history | |||
| First Nations | website, founding peoples of Labrador, including Innu, Inuit, Metis and settlers; branch of The Rooms | |||
| Aviation | information, items from the Canadian, American, Dutch, German, and British Air Forces | |||
| History | website, local history with a focus on domestic life and the role of women in communities | |||
| History | website, local history, 1929 tidal wave disaster | |||
| Living | Reconstructions of three Norse buildings, archaeological remains | |||
| History | website, local history | |||
| Historic house | website, reconstructed 1819/1820 period brick house | |||
| History | website, information, blacksmith and cooper tools and equipment | |||
| History | information, local history and fishing industry heritage | |||
| Forestry | website, recreated 1920s logging camp; branch of The Rooms | |||
| Industry | website, 1939 period fishing plantation house, fish store, carpentry shop, cod liver oil factory | |||
| Maritime | website, fishing industry artifacts | |||
| History | information, information, local history, tools and equipment of the fishing industry | |||
| Natural history | Mounted and live insect displays | |||
| Technology | information, former hydro power station and replica sawmill | |||
| Living | Viking era port of trade village | |||
| Aviation | Historic aircraft and the history of aviation in the province | |||
| Maritime | Mid 19th-century lighthouse, exhibits on the maritime history of the Labrador Straits | |||
| Technology | website, local history | |||
| Maritime | website, fishing industry and life along the coast; branch of The Rooms | |||
| Military | website, artillery battery during the War of 1812 | |||
| Railway | ||||
| History | website, local history | |||
| History | website, information, information, 16th century whaling artifacts, archaeological finds | |||
| History | website, turn-of-the-20th-century store and business displays, local history, located in the Western Union Cable Station building | |||
| Multiple | Includes the Rooms Art Gallery | |||
| History | website, information, local history of the store, town's people and the fishing industry | |||
| Military | information, information, operated by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 12 | |||
| Law enforcement | website, open by appointment | |||
| Military | information, history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment | |||
| Open air | website, restored merchant's premises with exhibits about: inshore, Labrador, international and seal fisheries; traditional Newfoundland outport furniture; local history museum about the inshore fishing community | |||
| Multiple | Exhibits about the fort site and a Marconi wireless station | |||
| History | website, local history | |||
| History | website, local history | |||
| History | website, local history | |||
| History | Local history and culture | |||
| History | information, local history | |||
| History | website, local history | |||
| History | information, information, local history | |||
| Maritime | website | |||
| History | information, local history, in particular the old Fogo wireless station | |||
| Maritime | website, i5th Century replica of John Cabot's ship Matthew, exhibits about his voyage to Newfoundland | |||