Gold Winner Museum of Natural History Silver Winner Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 If you’ve lived in this city for any length of time, you’ll have definitely heard of Gus, the 90-year-old tortoise and longtime resident of the Museum of Natural History. However, Gus is but […]
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
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Gold Winner Museum of Natural History Silver Winner Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 According to the comments they leave while casting their votes, readers love the Museum of Natural History for all kinds of reasons: “Costumes.” “Bees.” “Batman.” “Gus the tortoise.” Needless to say, we’re not […]
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Map of notable Titanic sites
View Titanic sites in Halifax in a larger map Related Stories
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Halifax exhibit celebrates communications revolution
Opening of Halifax exhibit that celebrates city’s role in supporting the transatlantic telegraph cable.
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Hello Sailor! reveals the secret gay life of the sea
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic’s latest exhibit, Hello Sailor! Gay Life on the Ocean Wave—a joint project with the Merseyside Maritime Museum and National Museums Liverpool—explores the idea of merchant and commercial ships being little slices of “gay heaven” on the open sea in the 1950s and 60s. Dr. Jo Stanley is the co-author […]
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Holiday hours for the Victoria Day Long Weekend
Queen Victoria will be 191 on Monday—and she’s still lookin’ good. We’re all thrilled about it, for the day off work many of us will enjoy. May 24 will be a Statutory Holiday for the feds—lucky bastards—but it’s not statutory for the rest of us. That said, it’s a holiday for most, while tourist-related businesses and museums will be open. The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (1675 Lower Water Street, 424-7490), for example, is open 9:30am to 5:30pm. Biscuit General Store (1661 Argyle Street, 425-5436) will help you look more stylin’ from 12 noon to 6pm, and the Atlantic News