This list of museums in Nova Scotia, 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 | County | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia University Art Gallery | Kings | Art | website, located in the Beveridge Arts Centre | ||
| History | Local history, period room displays | ||||
| Acadian Museum | History | Local history and Acadian culture[1] | |||
| Southern Nova Scotia | History | Historic house with 19th-century-period rooms, local maritime and cultural history displays, clothing and children's items | |||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | History | website, Museum about the Africville community that was situated on the northern shore of Halifax Harbour until the 1960s | |
| Fundy Shore | Maritime | www.ageofsailmuseum.ca Area's shipbuilding and lumbering heritage | |||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | Includes an art gallery | ||
| Cape Breton Island | Biographical | Life and works of inventor Alexander Graham Bell | |||
| Amos Seaman School Museum | Cumberland | Fundy Shore | History | Local history exhibits in a former one room schoolhouse[2] | |
| Cape Breton Island | History | Local history and Gaelic culture, also known as the Bridge Museum | |||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | website, part of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, three galleries with exhibitions of contemporary studio and media art, craft and design | ||
| Annapolis Valley | Multiple | website, local history, Nova Scotia Museum's clock and pocket watch collection, art gallery, 1940s general store and early 20th century schoolroom displays, operated by the Annapolis Valley Historical Society | |||
| Cumberland | Fundy Shore | Biographical | Life of singer Anne Murray | ||
| Northumberland Shore | History | website, local history | |||
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | History | Local history and area apple industry | ||
| Archelaus Smith Museum | Southern Nova Scotia | History | Local history and culture of Cape Sable Island, life of Archelaus Smith[3] | ||
| Southwestern Nova Scotia | Prison | website, restored 19th century courthouse and jail | |||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | Includes house and folk art by Maud Lewis | |
| Southwestern Nova Scotia | Art | Western branch | |||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Aviation | Atlantic Canada's aviation heritage | ||
| Avon Heritage Museum | Fundy Shore | Multiple | website, local maritime history, New England Planters, local house histories, family histories and Avon River ecology; operated by the Avon River Heritage Society | ||
| Baird's Tradesmen Museum | History | Antique tools from different trades[4] [5] | |||
| Northumberland Shore | Mill | Water-powered grist mill, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | |||
| Bangor Sawmill Museum | Digby | Southern Nova Scotia | Technology | Restored 19th-century water-powered turbine lumber sawmill[6] | |
| Barney's River Station School Museum | Northumberland Shore | Education | website, typical one room school | ||
| Colchester | Fundy Shore | History | website, local history, period room displays | ||
| Bayhead Radio Museum | Colchester | Fundy Shore | Technology | Antique radios, also hubcaps, license plates[7] | |
| Bear River Heritage Museum | Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | History | website, local history, operated by the Bear River Historical Society | |
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Ethnic | Black Nova Scotian history and culture | ||
| Black Loyalist Heritage Centre | Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Ethnic | website, local history of the Black Loyalists | |
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | History | Area agriculture industry and local history | ||
| Fundy Shore | Natural history | website, fossil tetrapods, fish, invertebrates and plants | |||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | History | Canadian immigration experience, located at a historic immigration entry point | |
| History | website, information, visitor center exhibits about local history and history of Grassy Island Fort | ||||
| Candle in the Window | Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | History | Local history, collectibles and craft shop; may be closed[8] | |
| Canning Heritage Centre | Kings | Annapolis Valley | History | website, local history, memorabilia and artifacts of country singer Wilf Carter, operated by the Fieldwood Heritage Society[9] | |
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Natural history | website, plant fossils from the Sydney coal field | ||
| Cape Breton Centre for Heritage and Science | Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | website, operated by the Old Sydney Society, local history | |
| Cape Breton Highlanders Museum | Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Military | website, history of the 2nd Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders | |
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Mining | website, coal mining, mining village and underground tour of the Ocean Deeps Colliery | ||
| Cape Breton University Art Gallery | Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Art | website, located in the Student, Culture and Heritage Centre | |
| Southwestern Nova Scotia | Maritime | Museum in the lighthouse keeper's quarters | |||
| Cape George Heritage School House | Antigonish | Cape George | History | Historic school house displaying artifacts from life in a fishing community.[10] | |
| Carmichael Stewart House Museum | Northumberland Shore | History | Historic house with local history and antiques displays[11] [12] | ||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Music | website | ||
| Chapel Hill Museum | Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | History | Local history, located in a historic church building[13] | |
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | Art | Art and home of Nova Scotia artist Charles Macdonald | ||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history | ||
| Fundy Shore | Historic house | 19th century Victorian period house | |||
| Fundy Shore | History | website, local history, operated by the Colchester Historical Society | |||
| Cole Harbour Heritage Farm | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Agriculture | website, historic working farm museum, farmhouse with household artifacts from three centuries, farm machinery | |
| Cornwallis Military Museum | Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Military | website, history of the CFB Cornwallis | |
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Historic house | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, 18th century period house with costumed guides, operated by the Old Sydney Society | ||
| Colchester | Northumberland Shore | Multiple | website, includes Giantess Anna Swan Museum, Sunrise Trail Museum with local history and culture exhibits, Brule fossils exhibit of conifers and footprints of amphibians and reptiles older than the dinosaurs, and a creamery exhibit | ||
| Crombie House | Northumberland Shore | Art | website, display of 19th- and 20th-century Canadian art, paintings by Cornelius Krieghoff, the Group of Seven (artists) and their contemporaries | ||
| Cumberland | Northumberland Shore | Multiple | website, industrial and social history of Cumberland County, art exhibits | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | Part of Dalhousie University, includes a contemporary art gallery | |
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Historic house | website, operates the late 18th century Quaker House with whaling ties, and the Victorian period Evergreen House | ||
| Fundy Shore | Military | Military artifacts and history of CFS Debert | |||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Art | |||
| Southern Nova Scotia | History | Local history | |||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Science | ||
| Shelburne | Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, dory shop | |
| East Hants Historical Society Museum | Fundy Shore | History | website, local history, also known as the Lower Selma Museum | ||
| Southwestern Nova Scotia | Firefighting | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, vintage firefighting equipment, artifacts, memorabilia | |||
| Design Fort Computer Museum | Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Technology | Vintage microcomputers and video games[14] | |
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Historic house | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, early 20th century period fishermen's house | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Military | Fort ruins and museum of over 400 years of military history | ||
| Fundy Shore | Military | 18th century blockhouse with exhibits | |||
| Fort Petrie Military Museum | Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Military | [15] | |
| Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, lighthouse, keeper's house, costumed interpreters, maritime history | |||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | History | website, local history | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Living | Reconstructed 18th-century French fortified town | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Historic house | website | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | History | Local history | ||
| Cumberland | Fundy Shore | Natural history | Geology, rocks, minerals, fossils, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | ||
| Fundy Tidal Interpretive Centre | Fundy Shore | Multiple | website, natural history of the Bay of Fundy tides, local history and maritime heritage | ||
| George and Mary Lynch Heritage Museum | Berwick | Kings | Annapolis Valley | Transportation | Carriages, sleighs and equipment[16] |
| Victoria | Cape Breton Island | Biographical | Life history of Angus MacAskill and the local Scottish heritage | ||
| Digby | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, lighthouse museum operated by the Gilberts Cove and District Historical Society | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | Local history | ||
| Goldboro Interpretive Centre | Guysborough | Eastern Shore | History | Local history and mining[17] | |
| Wolfville | Kings | Annapolis Valley | History | History and culture of the Acadians and the story of the Acadian deportation | |
| Great Hall of Clans Museum | Victoria | Cape Breton Island | Ethnic | website, part of The Gaelic College, social and military history of the Scottish Highlanders who settled in Nova Scotia | |
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | Aviation | website, military aviation in Atlantic Canada | ||
| Gut of Canso Museum | Inverness | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history, formerly the Port Hastings Museum | |
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Military | 19th-century fort with living history demonstrations | |
| Hants | Fundy Shore | Biographical | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, home of author Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Railway | website, 1940s period stationmaster's office, model railroad layout, artifacts | ||
| Hank Snow Home Town Museum | Queens | Southern Nova Scotia | Music | website, musician Hank Snow, includes Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame, railroad exhibit room | |
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Maritime | 1940s WW II-era museum ship, open in summer | |
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Maritime | website, includes replica 18th-century ship Hector, interpretive center of Scottish settlers, a working blacksmith shop, rigger's shop, carpentry shop, resident artist's studio | ||
| Victoria | Cape Breton Island | Living | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, early 19th century pioneer Scottish Gaelic village | ||
| Hildaniel Brown House | Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Historic house | 19th century period house[18] | |
| Inverness Miner's Museum | Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Mining | Coal mining and area pioneer history, located in a railway station, operated by the Ned MacDonald Historical Society[19] [20] | |
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | History | website, local history, military and art exhibits | ||
| Cumberland | Fundy Shore | Natural history | Fossils from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, area coal mining | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Historic house | website, 18th-century house with rooms from different periods, operated by the Old Sydney Society | ||
| Southwestern Nova Scotia | Maritime | Operated by the Yarmouth County Museum & Archives, restored 19th century period shipping office | |||
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | History | Local history | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | Contemporary art centre | |
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Historic house | Operated by the Lunenburg Heritage Society, early 19th century period house | ||
| Digby | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, 98' fishing vessel museum ship | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, history of the inshore fisheries and life on LaHave Islands | ||
| Hants | Fundy Shore | History | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, mid-19th century Victorian period mansion of a shipbuilder | ||
| Yarmouth | Southwestern Nova Scotia | Open air | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, early 20th century Acadian village | ||
| Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history | |||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Multiple | website, Acadian cultural centre including Museum of the Hooked Rug and Home Life, local history and culture | ||
| Victoria | Cape Breton Island | Maritime | information, local fishing industry | ||
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Education | website, 19th century one room schoolhouse | ||
| Colchester | Fundy Shore | Education | website, located in a one-room school, history of education in Nova Scotia from the mid-19th century to the early 1970s | ||
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Religious | information, photos, replica of the first church built in Pictou County in the 1780s | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Historic house | website | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Maritime | website, marine life, shipwreck artifacts, fishing | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Art | website | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history, operated by the Old Sydney Society | ||
| Cape Breton Island | Historic house | website, 20th century period home of marine photographer Wallace MacAskill | |||
| MacDonald House Museum | Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Historic house | 1850s period house, barn with agriculture equipment, one room school, operated by the Lake Ainslie Historical Society[21] | |
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | History | Domestic and institutional life on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia from about 1850 to 1950 | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | History | website, local history | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Maritime | information | ||
| Cumberland | Northumberland Shore | History | information, site of the first rock salt mine in Canada, salt industry, fishing, farming, local history | ||
| Marble Mountain | Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Mining | information, history of the marble quarry | |
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Technology | Site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station | ||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Sports | website, trout and salmon fishing, life of the salmon[22] | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Military | History of the Canadian Forces Maritime Command | |
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Maritime | Includes small craft and the CSS Acadia, a 180-foot steam-powered hydrographic survey ship launched in 1913, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | |
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | website, contemporary crafts, operated by the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design | |
| Colchester | Fundy Shore | Natural history | website, roadside attraction that includes a craft store, toy store, mini golf, and an interpretive centre which displays area mastodon bones and a Bay of Fundy exhibit | ||
| Northumberland Shore | History | website, local history | |||
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Ethnic | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, story of Dr. Thomas McCulloch and his roles in education and politics in Pictou in the early 19th century | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Living | website, 1940s period village | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Railway | |||
| Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre | Fundy Shore | First Nations | website, Mi'kmaq heritage and culture, formerly known as the Glooscap Heritage Centre | ||
| Queens | Southern Nova Scotia | Technology | website, blacksmith shop with tools and equipment | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Mining | information under attractions, park and gold mining museum | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Education | One room schoolhouse | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | website, part of Mount Saint Vincent University, contemporary art with a focus on the representation of women as cultural subjects and producers | |
| Shelburne | Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, area shipbuilding industry | |
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | History | information, local history | ||
| Berwick | Kings | Annapolis Valley | Toy | information | |
| Yarmouth | Southwestern Nova Scotia | Multiple | website, Acadian history and culture, located in an 1864 historic house, collection of cameras | ||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Maritime | website, fishing industry | ||
| Digby | Southern Nova Scotia | Religious | Early 20th century wooden church, largest wooden church in North America | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Railway | information | ||
| Richmond | Cape Breton Island | Biographical | website, New France leader Nicolas Denys | ||
| Victoria | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history and rural life | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Historic house | website, website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, operated by the Annapolis Heritage Society, 1764 farmhouse with collection of 18th-century paintings, ceramics, glassware and furniture | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | History | information under Attractions, local history, period room displays | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history | ||
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Maritime | website, area fishing industry and sea heritage; 3 sites in town, including a Canadian former National Railway Station, a lobster hatchery, and a replica lighthouse | ||
| Cumberland | Northumberland Shore | Military | website, history of The Nova Scotia Highlanders | ||
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | Maritime | information, information, located at the Port Bickerton Lighthouse, restored 1930s keeper's house and lighthouse, exhibits on lighthouses in Nova Scotia | ||
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Industry | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, includes mines, factories, railroads, home-based industries, computers, railroads and more | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Natural history | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | |
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Sports | Outstanding athletes, teams and sport builders in Nova Scotia | |
| Annapolis Royal | Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Historic house | website, operated by the Annapolis Heritage Society, Victorian period stagecoach inn and tavern | |
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | History | website, information, local history | ||
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | History | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, 18th century meeting house and non-conformist house of worship, managed by the Cape Sable Historical Society | ||
| Digby | Southern Nova Scotia | History | information, local history | ||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history | ||
| Orangedale Railway Museum | Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Railway | 1886 railroad station with artifacts, model railroad and equipment[23] | |
| Cumberland | Central | History | website, local history | ||
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | Maritime | information, information, way of life on a lightstation | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | History | website, local history, rural life from 1840 to present | ||
| Parrsboro | Cumberland | Central | Natural history | website, fossils, rocks, minerals | |
| Yarmouth | Southwestern Nova Scotia | Historic house | website, operated by the Yarmouth County Historical Society, late Victorian period summer home of Alfred Fuller, the original "Fuller Brush Man" | ||
| Queens | Southern Nova Scotia | Historic house | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, 18th century period house, history of early Nova Scotia pre-Loyalist culture and colonial lifestyle | ||
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Military | information, area's military past | ||
| Pictou | Northumberland Shore | Sports | information | ||
| Richmond | Cape Breton Island | History | information, local history | ||
| Port Bickerton Lighthouse | Guysborough | Eastern Shore | History | website, local history and area maritime history | |
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | website, part of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University's Port Campus | |
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Agriculture | information, farm implements and tools, farm household utensils, rural household items | ||
| Granville Ferry | Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Open air | Recreated early 17th-century French colony with costumed interpreters | |
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | Historic house | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, mid-19th-century manor home of horticulturalist Charles Ramage Prescott | ||
| Queens | Southern Nova Scotia | History | information, local history | ||
| Wolfville | Kings | Annapolis Valley | Historic house | 19th century period house, operated by the Wolfville Historical Society | |
| Cumberland | Central | Mining | information, coal mining | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Textiles | information, folk costumes and artifacts from over 90 countries | ||
| Kings | Annapolis Valley | Art | website, art centre with gallery | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Agriculture | 19th century working farm | ||
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Historic house | website, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, 18th century period store and house | ||
| Queens | Southern Nova Scotia | Multiple | website, complex includes the Apothecary Museum; Museums of Hunting, Fishing, Guidesports & Mi’kmaq History; Wildlife Museum; Folk Art Museum; open air Cultural Village; Laing Art Gallery; Wildlife Art Gallery; Outhouse Museum | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Military | information | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Art | website, part of Saint Mary's University (Halifax), contemporary art | |
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | History | information, local history | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Historic house | 18th-century house with local history artifacts | ||
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, operated by the Cape Sable Historical Society, 1/2 size replica of original lighthouse, exhibits of artifacts and memorabilia from lighthouses in the area | ||
| Hants | Fundy Shore | Historic house | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, late 19th century Victorian period house | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Aviation | Canadian maritime military aviation | ||
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | History | website, local history | ||
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | Living | website, depicts a typical Nova Scotian village from 1860 to pre-WW1, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | ||
| Queens | Southern Nova Scotia | Photography | website, images, cameras and artifacts from key figures in Nova Scotian photography | ||
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Historic house | website, operated by the Annapolis Heritage Society, 18th century inn | ||
| Yarmouth | Southwestern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, equipment, memorabilia and photos of sport tuna angling | ||
| Cumberland | Central | Mining | information, area coal mining | ||
| Halifax Regional Municipality | Eastern Shore | Art | website, interpretive center with recovered artifacts and monument at site of 1873 sinking of the transatlantic ocean liner SS Atlantic | ||
| Northumberland Shore | Art | information, part of St. Francis Xavier University | |||
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | Natural history | website, salmon angling, life cycle of salmon, local wildlife, river ecology | ||
| St. Patrick's Church Museum | Sydney | Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history exhibits in an 1828 church, operated by the Old Sydney Society |
| Fundy Shore | History | website, website, local history | |||
| Colchester | Northumberland Shore | Technology | Restored steam woodworking mill from the 1890s, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Railway | website, coal-hauling times of the Sydney & Louisburg Railway and its marine connections | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history, located in a former railway station | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Industry | website, history of the Sydney Steel Corporation | ||
| Halifax | Halifax Regional Municipality | Metro Halifax | Natural history | website, part of Dalhousie University, preserved bird specimens, ceramic mushrooms, corals, shells, insects, butterflies | |
| Annapolis | Annapolis Valley | Education | information, one room schoolhouse | ||
| Hants | Fundy Shore | Historic house | Part of the Nova Scotia Museum, early 19th century period Georgian estate with fine antiques | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | Ethnic | website, history and contributions of African Nova Scotians | ||
| Kentville | Kings | Annapolis Valley | Medical | information, history of the former Nova Scotia Sanatorium | |
| Victoria | Cape Breton Island | First Nations | website, history and culture of the Mi’kmaq People | ||
| Cumberland | Northumberland Shore | History | website, information, local history | ||
| Hants | Fundy Shore | History | website, also known at the Shubenacadie Tin Shop Museum, includes 1890s tin shop, a hardware store from the 1920s,an artisans room, local handcrafts, period living rooms and clothing, farm relics, military tribute | ||
| Cumberland | Metro Halifax | History | website, local history exhibits in a former church | ||
| Hants | Fundy Shore | History | website, local and county history | ||
| Shelburne | Southern Nova Scotia | Military | website, operated by the Cape Sable Historical Society | ||
| Digby | Southern Nova Scotia | History | website, local history | ||
| Inverness | Cape Breton Island | Natural history | information, natural history of whales | ||
| Guysborough | Eastern Shore | History | information, information, local history | ||
| Cape Breton | Cape Breton Island | History | website, local history, located in a former synagogue | ||
| Lunenburg | Southern Nova Scotia | Textile | Water-powered wool carding mill, part of the Nova Scotia Museum | ||
| Hants | Fundy Shore | Sports | information, information, history of ice hockey | ||
| Yarmouth | Southwestern Nova Scotia | Maritime | website, includes simulation of a traditional fishing wharf with fishing, processing and ship repair sheds, wharf decks and a coastal freighter, marine art, maritime gear and equipment | ||
| Yarmouth | Yarmouth | Southwestern Nova Scotia | History | Local history | |