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Visit us on the Halifax waterfront where summer festivals, exciting outdoor programs, and food and music awaits! Our museum brings alive maritime heritage and stories of Nova Scotia history, past and present. Enjoy live museum views right on the waterfront With Nova Scotia webcams.
For more information on the Museum’s hours of operation, visit our Holiday Hours Page. The Museum’s Library is open Monday through Friday, by appointment only. Admissions Info. Prices are subject to change. All prices include HST. Group Rates are available Discounts are available. Maritime Museum Season Passes are available.
The museum is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection of over 30,000 artifacts including 70 small craft and a steamship: the CSS Acadia, a 180-foot steam-powered hydrographic survey ship launched in 1913.
Situated in the heart of Halifax’s historic Waterfront, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is located on Lower Water Street, at the base of Prince Street. The Museum is also accessible from the Halifax Harbourwalk, a 3-km boardwalk that spans the length of the city’s downtown core.
Located in the heart of Halifax’s historic waterfront, there’s no better place to get immersed in Nova Scotia’s rich maritime heritage than the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 10,023 likes · 157 talking about this · 21,299 were here. Sun. - Sat. 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, Tues. free admission community nights from 5 pm to 8 pm!
This was an outstanding museum, covering a wide array of maritime topics, both related to local history (Halifax and Nova Scotia) and maritime industry writ large, as well as a section dedicated to the loss of the RMS Titanic.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the oldest and largest Maritime Museum in Canada. Having celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998, the Museum has developed a unique history of its own.
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Sea dogs will love this briny museum on the waterfront, which houses a huge collection of maritime memorabilia relating to Atlantic Canada's many nautical activities, from merchant shipping and small-boat building to the days of the world-war convoys.
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Located on Halifax’s waterfront, the museum displays models of many different types of boats with explanations of how they were used, plus an exhibit dedicated to the catastrophic Halifax Explosion in 1917.
