List of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This list of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador, 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.

To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.

Name Town/City Region Type Summary
Bonavista Bonavista Peninsula Natural history information
Admiralty House Museum Mount Pearl History Local history, wireless communication and Guglielmo Marconi, the tragedy of the and other shipwrecks and maritime artifacts
Musgrave Harbour History website, life of Sir Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, who was killed in a local 1941 airplane crash
Newtown Open air website, includes a schoolhouse, sealing interpretation center, fisherman's stage, theatre, art gallery, and visitor reception center
Battle Harbour Labrador Open air website, restored salt fish premises and community
Eastport Eastport Peninsula Art website, arts centre with art gallery, theater
Old Perlican Avalon Peninsula Historic house information, mid-19th century - mid-20th century fishery homestead
Bell Island Avalon Peninsula Mining website, artifacts, equipment and tour of iron ore mine
St. John's History information, open by appointment, 1879 chapel that was originally constructed as a one-room school
Bird Cove Great Northern Peninsula History website, local history including pre-historic cultures, explorers and settlers
Fogo History information, local history
Wesleyville Bonavista Peninsula Multiple website, local history, contemporary art gallery
Boyd's Cove First Nations website, archeological artifacts and exhibits about the Beothuk settlers
Burin Burin Peninsula Multiple information, includes 1910 Bank of Nova Scotia Museum with local history and culture exhibits, 1920 Reddy Heritage House with period furnishings and the Burin Cottage Hospital Exhibit
Bonavista Bonavista Peninsula Maritime website, lighthouse technology and lightkeepers' lifestyles
Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site Cape Spear Avalon Peninsula Maritime Lighthouse and 1939 period keeper's residence
Carbonear Avalon Peninsula History website, local history
Castle Hill National Historic Site Placentia Avalon Peninsula History Fort ruins, exhibits on the fort and the fishing village
Bay Roberts Avalon Peninsula Art website, located in the Western Union Cable Station building, works by artist Christopher Pratt and changing exhibits
Ferryland Avalon Peninsula Archaeology website, history and artifacts from the Province of Avalon, reproduction 17th century room with kitchen, archaeology dig site
St. John's Historic house website, 1830s period house built to supply the city's garrison
Harbour Grace Avalon Peninsula History website, local history, pirates, aviation
Cupids Avalon Peninsula History website, local history and culture
Grand Falls-Windsor Multiple website, local history, artifacts and culture of the Beothuk and other are settlers; branch of The Rooms. Formerly Mary March Provincial Museum.
Dildo Avalon Peninsula History information, local history, archaeological artifacts from Maritime Archaic Indians, Dorset Eskimo, recent Indians and Beothuk; interpretation of the 19th Century cod fish hatchery
Cow Head Great Northern Peninsula History website, local history and culture
Durrell Museum Durrell History Local history
Port de Grave Avalon Peninsula Multiple website, includes exhibits on life and work of the Newfoundland inshore fisherman, Porter House, a typical fisherman's home, and a one-room school
Job's Cove Avalon Peninsula History information, local history
Fluvarium St. John's Natural history Freshwater ecosystems
Conche Great Northern Peninsula History website, area history and culture, artifacts from shipwrecks
Labrador City Labrador History website, local history including aboriginal inhabitants, fur trading pioneers, mining, railroads, hydropower
Glovertown Museum Glovertown History local history
Green Family Forge Trinity Avalon Peninsula History website, historic working blacksmith shop
Grenfell Campus Art Gallery Corner Brook Art website, part of Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site Brigus Avalon Peninsula Historic house 19th century period home of Arctic explorer Bob Bartlett, exhibits about his life and travels
Heart's Content Cable Station Heart's Content Avalon Peninsula Media website, information, site of the end of Cyrus West Field's first Transatlantic telegraph cable
Trinity Avalon Peninsula Historic house website, 1910 period house
Hopedale Labrador History information, information, local history, Moravian and Inuit artifacts from the 19th century
St. John's Medical website, operated by the Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board, 1895 drug store with equipment
Johnson Geo Centre St. John's Natural history Geology of the earth and the province, including volcanoes, earthquakes, rainstorms, climate changes, impact on humans
North West River Labrador History information, local history
North West River Labrador First Nations website, founding peoples of Labrador, including Innu, Inuit, Metis and settlers; branch of The Rooms
Happy Valley-Goose Bay Labrador Aviation information, items from the Canadian, American, Dutch, German, and British Air Forces
L'Anse-au-Loup Labrador History website, local history with a focus on domestic life and the role of women in communities
Lamaline Burin Peninsula History website, local history, 1929 tidal wave disaster
L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site L'Anse aux Meadows Great Northern Peninsula Living Reconstructions of three Norse buildings, archaeological remains
Lawn Burin Peninsula History website, local history
Trinity Avalon Peninsula Historic house website, reconstructed 1819/1820 period brick house
Victoria Avalon Peninsula History website, information, blacksmith and cooper tools and equipment
St. Lewis Labrador History information, local history and fishing industry heritage
Grand Falls-Windsor Forestry website, recreated 1920s logging camp; branch of The Rooms
Bonavista Bonavista Peninsula Industry website[permanent dead link], 1939 period fishing plantation house, fish store, carpentry shop, cod liver oil factory
Musgrave Harbour Maritime website, fishing industry artifacts
Rigolet Labrador History information, information, local history, tools and equipment of the fishing industry
Newfoundland Insectarium Reidville Natural history Mounted and live insect displays
Victoria Avalon Peninsula Technology information, former hydro power station and replica sawmill
Norstead: A Viking Village and Port of Trade L'Anse aux Meadows Great Northern Peninsula Living Viking era port of trade village
North Atlantic Aviation Museum Gander Aviation Historic aircraft and the history of aviation in the province
Point Amour Lighthouse L'Anse Amour Labrador Maritime Mid 19th-century lighthouse, exhibits on the maritime history of the Labrador Straits
Pouch Cove Avalon Peninsula Technology website, local history
Grand Bank Burin Peninsula Maritime website, fishing industry and life along the coast; branch of The Rooms
St. John's Military website, artillery battery during the War of 1812
Railway Coastal Museum St. John's Railway
Red Bay Labrador History website, local history
Red Bay Labrador History website, information, information, 16th century whaling artifacts, archaeological finds
Bay Roberts Avalon Peninsula History website, turn-of-the-20th-century store and business displays, local history, located in the Western Union Cable Station building
The Rooms St. John's Multiple Includes the Rooms Art Gallery
Carbonear Avalon Peninsula History website, information, local history of the store, town's people and the fishing industry
Grand Falls-Windsor Military information, information, operated by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 12
St. John's Law enforcement website, open by appointment
Pleasantville Military information, history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Bonavista Bonavista Peninsula Open air website, restored merchant's premises with exhibits about: inshore, Labrador, international and seal fisheries; traditional Newfoundland outport furniture; local history museum about the inshore fishing community
Signal Hill National Historic Site St. John's Multiple Exhibits about the fort site and a Marconi wireless station
Torbay Avalon Peninsula History website, local history
Trinity Avalon Peninsula History website, local history
Trinity Avalon Peninsula History website, local history
Twillingate Museum Twillingate History Local history and culture
Whitbourne Avalon Peninsula History information, local history
Makkovik Labrador History website, local history
Hant's Harbour Avalon Peninsula History information, information, local history
Winterton Avalon Peninsula Maritime website
Fogo History information, local history, in particular the old Fogo wireless station
Bonavista Bonavista Peninsula Maritime website, i5th Century replica of John Cabot's ship Matthew, exhibits about his voyage to Newfoundland

References[]

Retrieved from ""