Nova Scotia Museum

The Nova Scotia Museum ( Neuschottlandmuseum ) is the umbrella name for a consortium of 27 museums in Nova Scotia, one of Canada's provinces on the Atlantic. It was built on the basis of the Nova Scotia Museum Act as an institution in the province. In 1989, the Nova Scotia Museum of Science, its current name.

History

The museum dates back to collections of the Mechanics Institute in the provincial capital of Halifax, which was created in December 1831 and this is 1868 Museum since October. His first curator was Dr. David Honeyman, Harry Piers of 1899 followed by 1940. Piers was beyond provincial librarian since 1900 and Deputy Keeper of Public Records of the Province of 1899 until 1931. On Piers followed Donald Crowdis as curator, J. Lynton Martin 0 this from 1965. Managing Director from 1983 was Candace Stevenson.

1947, the Provincial Museum of Nova Scotia the name Museum of Science. Only in 1951 was the Museum of the Department of the Department of Public Works and Mines in the Department of Education (now the Department of Education and Culture ) above, ie by the Ministry of Public Works and Mines to the education ( and culture).

His character as only science museum lost the house in 1955 with the founding of the History Branch ( History Department ), which was settled in the urban Citadel (Halifax Citadel ). On a legal basis this change was made ​​in 1960, when the museum was given the task, human history and culture perform, create collections and to ensure their preservation.

Cable and associated museums

The total line carries a Board of Governors, which manages ten museums directly, while the remaining 17 are led by local boards. Executive Director is Bill Greenlaw, a further five employees manage the library and various collections, in addition to twelve curators share the areas of archeology, anthropology, botany, zoology, natural history, history and maritime history.

The associated museums, plus the locations are as follows:

  • The Acadian Village of Nova Scotia, Isle Madame
  • Balmoral Grist Mill Museum, Nova Scotia Trunk 6 ( street name )
  • Barrington Woolen Mill, Barrington
  • Barrington Old Meeting House, Barrington
  • Cossit House, Sydney
  • Dory Shop Museum, Shelburne
  • Firefighters ' Museum of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth
  • Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg
  • Fisherman's Life Museum, Oyster Pond
  • Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro
  • Haliburton House Museum, Windsor
  • Highland Village Museum / An Clachan Gaidhealach, Iona
  • Lawrence House Museum, Maitland
  • Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax
  • McCulloch House Museum, Pictou
  • Nova Scotia Museum of Industry, Stellarton
  • Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax
  • North Hills Museum, Granville Ferry
  • Perkins House Museum, Liverpool
  • Prescott House Museum, Starrs Point
  • Ross Farm Museum, New Ross
  • Ross -Thomson House Museum, Shelburne
  • Shand House Museum, Windsor
  • Sherbrooke Village, Sherbrooke
  • Sutherland Steam Mill Museum, Denmark
  • Uniacke Estate Museum Park, Mount Uniacke
  • Wile Carding Mill, Bridgewater
Halifax Regional Municipality Ethnology Barrington (Nova Scotia) Shelburne (Nova Scotia) Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) Windsor (Nova Scotia) Liverpool (Nova Scotia) Bridgewater (Nova Scotia)
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