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Fundy Geological Museum

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162 Two Islands Road

PO Box 640

Parrsboro, NS B0M 1S0

Open year-round

Tel: 902 254 3814

Toll-free: 1 866 856 DINO (3406)

Fax: 902 254 3666

Day Programs

Have fun learning geology! Through exhibits, stories, hands-on fun, photos, and more, students explore the geology of the area with the help of trained interpreters and then visit the museum to discover how the earth has changed over the last billion years.

The day’s tide times determine whether the program begins with a beach tour or with a museum tour, lab, and souvenir-making workshop.

Prices depend on the program chosen.
Programs begin at 10 am; duration of programs varies from 1 to 5 hours, depending on class size and tides.
Choose from two educational themes, fossils or minerals, and customize the experience for your students. Focus on a museum visit only, or include a beach tour, lab, and hands-on workshop!

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Theme One: Fabulous Fossils

Find out about local dinosaur discoveries and the unique, rich geological history of the area. Customize this package to include

a guided tour of the museum, with a focus on fossils, their creation, and preservation.
a beach tour, with a focus on the geology of cliffs at either Wasson Bluff, which features the site of Canada’s oldest dinosaurs. Wasson Bluff is also famous for its chabazite mineral deposits. Students visit a place where dinosaurs and ancient amphibians walked millions of years ago and search for fault lines within the cliffs. Or East Bay, where geological history pre-dates the dinosaurs. Look at actual marks left by the shifting earth and discover ripple and mud cracks. See the ocean bottom standing upright. Students may discover marine fossils or footprints, too.
a fossil lab, where students learn about dinosaurs and fossil finds in the local area, meet the Lab Manager, hear a 10- to 15-minute presentation on the science of fossils, and see some of the recent finds currently being uncovered and studied
a workshop, which could include painting a ceramic dinosaur, painting a wooden dinosaur name tag, making a dinosaur pendant, and/or making a plaster cast of a fossil

Theme Two: Marvelous Minerals

Did you know that Nova Scotia is a treasure chest of rich minerals? This program includes:

a guided tour of the museum, with a focus on minerals
a beach tour of Partridge Island, including a search for minerals such as stilbite, calcite, agate, and amethyst
mineral-based labs where students learn to identify and classify minerals. It features rocks and minerals common to our everyday lives, such as gypsum, or minerals common to Partridge Island, the destination for mineral beach tour. Depending on the age of the students, the hands-on mineral stations allow students to identify minerals by magnetism, colour, streak, density, texture, hardness, and crystal shape
a mineral workshop, where students create a necklace using Bay of Fundy agate, polished at

Fundy Geological Museum, or complete a specimen card of local minerals.

Day Program Prices

Please note: Chaperones and teachers receive free admission to the museum; however, chaperones pay the cost of materials if participating in other activities. All prices include taxes.

Complete Package

$6.60 per person; allow 3–5 hours

Includes museum video, guided museum tour, a $3 workshop, guided beach tour, and lab or activity. (Workshop/tour/lab activity choices are described below.)

Build Your Own Package

$2.60 per person; allow 45 minutes–1 hour

Includes museum video and guided tour of museum

$3.75 per person for each 30-minute workshop

Make jewellery
Paint a dinosaur
Make a plaster fossil

$1.50 per person for each 15- to 30-minute workshop

Paint a dino pin
Paint a dino pendant
Complete specimen cards

$ .50 per person for each 15- to 30-minute activity

Fossil Grid
Mineral Stations
Time Line

$ .50 per person for a 15- to 30-minute lab activity

Mineral lab
Fossil lab
FGM lab staff (as available)

$1 per person guided beach tour

A Night At The Museum!

Join us for a night with the dinosaurs! Set up your bedroll in the museum gallery, roast marshmallows around the campfire or go for a hike with your guide. Then, settle in for a night at the Museum!

After breakfast, look for minerals at a local beach, learn about rocks and minerals of the Bay of Fundy AND see Canada’s oldest dinosaur bones! At noon, enjoy a lunch of T-Rex toes.

Can’t join us for the night? We are only 100 kms from Truro or 60 kms from Amherst. Take advantage of our 3-5 hour day. This includes a museum tour, a workshop, and a field trip for $5.75.

All prices are before tax.

All overnight groups pay a fee of $115 for sleeping at the museum.

The food fee for our new 20-hour (7 pm - 3 pm) is $25 per person. This includes meals, a museum tour, a field trip to a mineral or fossil beach and two workshops.

The food fee for our 24-hour (1 pm -1 pm) overnight is $30. This includes meals, a museum tour, two field trips and three workshops.

We welcome your calls and are happy to individualize your program. Book now! We look forward to seeing you at the Fundy Geological Museum in Parrsboro, N.S.

Your FGM Education Team,

Carol Corbett

Pat Welton