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The Acadian Village of Nova Scotia / Le Village Historique Acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse	West Pubnico	June 15 - Oct.15
Located on a 17-acre panoramic site overlooking the Pubnico Harbour, the Acadian Village presents and interprets Nova Scotia's Acadian heritage. On site, visit houses, a fish shed and a blacksmith shop. The Village is located in Pubnico, the oldest Acadian region still inhabited by descendants of its founder, Baron Philippe Muis-d'Entremont. Learn an Acadian phrase from bilingual guides. Tour the site, interpretive displays, and Visitors Reception Centre.
Ross Farm Museum	New Ross	Year Round
Capture the flavour of country life in early Nova Scotia. Savor the delicious aromas of good food cooking over an open hearth or the fresh smell of wood shavings in the Cooper Shop. Walk alongside a team of oxen at work and touch cows, sheep, hens, pigs and more kittens than you can count. Explore living history and agriculture on an 1800s family farm.
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic	Lunenburg	Year Round. Limited Winter Services.
Visit us on Lunenburg's waterfront and experience Atlantic Canada's seafaring heritage! Explore fresh and saltwater aquariums filled with neat native fish, our large Bluenose exhibit, the Banks Fisheries Gallery, the Hall of Inshore Fisheries, the Dory Shop, our Whales & Whaling and August Gales exhibits, the Fishermen's Memorial Room, and lots of other exhibits about shipbuilding, rum-running, life in fishing communities & old marine engines. Experience demonstrations of seafaring skills, lobster traps & traditional crafts.
Wile Carding Mill	Bridgewater	June 1 - Sept.30
Dean Wile built his wool carding mill in 1860 and charged five cents a pound for picking and carding. He also made wool batts, which were used to stuff wool beds and quilts. Sense the power of the waterwheel and hear stories of women who worked at the mill.
Perkins House Museum	Liverpool	June 1 - Oct.15
This house was built in 1766 for Simeon Perkins, merchant, judge and Member of the Assembly. Perkins also kept a remarkable diary in which he recorded events in his large family's life such as their vaccinations for smallpox, just at the period when this procedure was first being used.
Ross-Thomson House Museum	Shelburne	June 1 - Oct.15
Built about 1785, this double building served as house and store for George and Robert Ross (and later their clerk Robert Thomson and his family) during the Loyalist boom in Shelburne, when the community was twice the size of Halifax and larger than Montreal.
The Dory Shop Museum	Shelburne	June 1 - Sept. 30
When the John Williams dory shop was established in 1880 dories were in great demand for use in the Banks fishery. This shop was a "dory factory": its five to seven workers were organized into an elementary production line and produced hundreds of dories each year.
Barrington Woolen Mill	Barrington	June 1 - Sept. 30
Begun by local citizens in 1882 and taken over by Robert Doane in 1894, this water-turbine-powered mill made yarn and cloth from local wool for nearly 80 years. In 1968 its carding machines, spinning mule, loom, twister, and skeiner became part of the Nova Scotia Museum.
Old Meeting House	Barrington	June 1 - Sept.30
The Old Meeting House is the oldest nonconformist house of worship still standing in Canada. Framed in 1765 by the Cape Cod founders of Barrington, it was used by the local Council until 1838 and by various religious groups until 1934.
Firefighters' Museum of Nova Scotia	Yarmouth	Year Round
You can see almost every kind of fire engine ever used in Nova Scoita in this Museum, from an 1819 Hopwood and Tilley hand-drawn hand pumper to an 1863 Amoskeag steam fire engine, to a 1933 motor-driven Chev pumper. Smaller items on display include photos of famous fires, rubber and leather water buckets, and antique toy fire engines.