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A distinctive A-frame building with a dark shingled facade and a large glass skylight roof, situated on a rocky shoreline with trees and people nearby.

Coastal & Maritime

Maritime Museums

Maritime Museums in Canada

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  • across 6 destinations
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Maritime Museums in Canada

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A tall, slender lighthouse tower painted with red and white vertical stripes stands on a rocky headland next to a white keeper's house with a red roof, overlooking the ocean under a clear blue sky.

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Cape Forchu Lighthouse

1839 lighthouse with keeper’s museum and grounds

Free

A wooden boardwalk path lined with distinctive green curved lampposts runs alongside a rocky harbor edge, with a large multi-story building on the right and people walking or sitting along the path.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk

Free

A large modern cultural building with two prominent gabled wings and a central glass atrium, featuring a white sign in the foreground lawn that reads "The Rooms".

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Rooms
Red wooden buildings of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic on the Lunenburg waterfront

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg Maritime Heritage Centre
The red Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic on the Lunenburg waterfront

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

Maritime museum in UNESCO World Heritage Lunenburg
Lock 3 of the Welland Canal beside the St. Catharines Museum

Niagara Falls, Ontario

St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals

Museum and lock viewing at St. Catharines
A large, weathered grey wooden building with red trim and shutters, situated on a rocky shore, with a yellow dory boat visible on the grass nearby.

Shelburne, Nova Scotia

Dory Shop Museum

1865 warehouse preserving Shelburne's dory heritage

Maritime Museums Overview

Interest Maritime Museums
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Maritime Museums in Canada

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Nova Scotia (5) Ontario (1) Newfoundland and Labrador (1)

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