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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.
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.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the oldest and largest Maritime Museum in Canada. The original concept of the Museum can be credited to a group of Royal Canadian Navy officers who envisioned a maritime museum where relics of Canada’s naval past could be conserved.
This letter offers a glimpse of life aboard the greatest steamship of its age, and of the excitement of its first—and final—Atlantic crossing. Written in haste on the ship’s first-class stationery, it is the only extant evidence of his presence aboard, and so of the man’s ultimate fate.
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. Visit Canada's la...
Immerse yourself in the rich marine history depicted by this museum's vast collection from binnacles and buoys to anchors and armaments. Duration: 2-3 hours.
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.
Apr 19, 2024 - Immerse yourself in the rich marine history depicted by this museum's vast collection from binnacles and buoys to anchors and armaments.
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is ranked #4 out of 19 things to do in Halifax. See pictures and our review of Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
As Canada's largest maritime museum, we have been in existence since 1948 at our current location since 1982. Our maritime exhibits range from Nova Scotia's role in the ill-fated RMS Titanic disaster to the Halifax Harbour Explosion of 1917.
