 |
Maritime Museum of Atlantic |
B3J 1S3 Halifax, Canada (Nova Scotia) |
|
| Address |
1675 Lower Water Street
|
| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Navy / Watercraft
- Model Ships
- Military ships and submarine
|
Opening times
|
see http://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/visit-us/hours-admissions | ||||||||
|
Status from 12/2013
|
May 1 - Oct 31: Adult: $9.25; Senior 65+: $8.25; Youth: 6-17: $5 Nov 1 - April 30: Adult: $5; Senior 65+: $4.25; Youth: 6-17: $3 |
||||||||
| Contact |
|
||||||||
| Homepage | maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca | ||||||||
gov.ns.ca 
Our page for Maritime Museum of Atlantic in Halifax, Canada, is not yet administrated by a Radiomuseum.org member. Please write to us about your experience with this museum, for corrections of our data or sending photos by using the Contact Form to the Museum Finder.
| Location / Directions |
Situated in the heart of Halifax’s historic Waterfront, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is located on Lower Water Street, at the base of Prince Street. The Museum is also accessible from the Halifax Harbourwalk, a 3-km boardwalk that spans the length of the city’s downtown core. |
| Description | ExhibitsPublic galleries include the Days of Sail, the Age of Steam, Small Craft, the Canadian Navy, the Halifax Explosion, and Shipwrecks. A special permanent exhibit explores the sinking of RMS Titanic with an emphasis on Nova Scotia's connection to recovering the bodies of Titanic victims. The museum has the world's foremost collection of wooden artifacts from Titanic, including one of the few surviving deck chairs. The Titanic exhibit also includes a child's pair of shoes which helped identify Titanic's "unknown child" as Sidney Leslie Goodwin. The Age of Steam gallery includes a special display on Samuel Cunard, the Nova Scotian who created the Cunard Line. The restored 1880s Robertson building includes the fully restored Roberston ship chandlerly which features hands on foghorns, ropes and ship fittings.The Navy gallery includes the "Convoy Exhibit" about the Battle of the Atlantic which includes the Canadian Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Monuments to the Canadian and Norwegian Merchant Navy are located just outside the museum along with a unique children's playground in the shape of a submarine. The museum also has a changing exhibits gallery. A 2009 exhibit Ship of Fate: The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis was the first Canadian exhibit to explore the 1939 voyage of the Jewish refugee ship MS St. Louis. The Museum became the first museum in North America to present an exhibit about the lives of gay seafarers in 2011 when it presented Hello Sailor: Gay Life on the Ocean Waves, adapted from an exhibit developed at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool, England. The 2012 exhibit explores the experiences of the cable ships based in Halifax who recovered most of the victims of the RMS Titanic sinking. The corvette HMCS Sackville (K181) is not part of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic but is located adjacent to the museum in the summer and works with the museum to interpret the Royal Canadian Navy. |
Radiomuseum.org presents here one of the many museum pages. We try to bring data for your direct information about all that is relevant. In the list (link above right) you find the complete listing of museums related to "Radio & Co." we have information of. Please help us to be complete and up to date by using the contact form above.
[dsp_museum_detail.cfm]
| Data Compliance | More Information |