Discovery Centre is Nova Scotia's hands-on science centre and the Maritimes' premiere destination for interactive, informal learning. Spend an hour or spend the entire day checking out over 90 interactive exhibitions that are sure to amaze and spark curiosity.

Discovery Centre is an interactive science museum located in the Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is owned and operated as a not-for-profit charitable organization whose mission is to stimulate interest, enjoyment and understanding of science and technology. In October of...

The Khyber building at 1588 Barrington Street, was originally erected as The Church of England Institute in 1888, and was designed by architect Henry Busch in an eclectic Victorian style with strong Gothic Revival influences. The building was commissioned by Bishop...

The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is the largest art museum in Atlantic Canada. With locations in downtown Halifax and downtown Yarmouth, the Gallery houses the Province's art collection and offers a range of exhibitions and programming.

The HMCS Sackville was part of the 1939-40 building program. Constructed at Saint John, New Brunswick, and commissioned in late 1941, she had the short forecastle "whaler" appearance characteristic of early construction. During periodic refits she was altered -as...

The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 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 one ship: the CSS Acadia, a 180 foot steam-powered...

The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame came into existence through the work of J.E. (Gee) Ahern, the mayor of Halifax in the 1950's,Earl Morton, Harry Butler and Alex Nickerson. The Hall was initiated in response to Kingston Ontario's claim on the origin of hockey as...

A series of four different defensive fortifications have occupied the summit of Citadel Hill since this time, with the construction and levelling resulting in the summit of the hill being dropped by ten to twelve metres. The first fort was simply a small redoubt...

Named after NSCAD’s Victorian founder—feisty heroine of film and theatre productions of The King and I—the Anna Leonowens Gallery is the public exhibition space and resource centre on campus. Three public galleries are devoted to the exhibition of contemporary...

The museum was responsible for ‘the natural and applied sciences’ and ‘human activities in Nova Scotia’ as well as local museums throughout Nova Scotia. By 1993, the Nova Scotia Museum underwent a sweeping reorganization. The museum as a single entity would...