Baie Verte Miners’ Museum

The Baie Verte Peninsula Miners’ Museum brings to life a typical mine from the late1800s to present day. A tunnel, much like a mine shaft, starts the tour and brings you out into a room that shows the tools of the mining trade and gives a glimpse into the home

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Bishop’s Falls Heritage Museum

This Heritage Museum displays artifacts from the local history with emphasis on the railway, logging, sports, and community. There are railways artefacts, as well as those from the logging and forestry industries. The Museum also has profiles of major floods and other disasters in the area. There is also an

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Bleak House Museum

The Bleak House, built around 1816 for John Slate of Poole, England, was the principle house of the fish merchant Henry J. Earle and Family from 1897 – 1967. Restored in 1986-87 with many original items belonging to the Earle family and other artifacts depicting the heritage of Fogo. The

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Bonavista Museum

The Bonavista Museum, located at the Ryan Premises National Historic Site, showcases various aspects of local culture dating back to the late 19th century such as domestic life and entertainment, school, church, mercantile activity and occupations such as fishing, sealing, logging, carpentry, cooperage and cobbling. The collection also includes an

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Bonavista North Regional Museum and Gallery

People of the Wesleyville area were heavily involved in the Labrador fishery and the seal fishery, which is reflected in the large collection of domestic and fishery related artifacts of the Bonavista North Regional Museum. Savour the unique atmosphere of a Victorian bedroom setting, a colonial style of life and

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Botwood Flying Boat Museum

Botwood’s pioneer role in aviation spanned a period from 1921-1946. This museum houses photos, murals, and models which reveal that Botwood was an airport in the early 1920’s, that Charles and Anne Lindbergh were here in 1933, that we were the North American terminus for Transatlantic flights, and that we

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Botwood Heritage Centre

Housed in the former crash-boat terminal for the first Trans-Atlantic Passenger Flights, the Botwood Heritage Center is dedicated chiefly to the preservation of the community’s heritage. Exhibits and artefacts reflect themes including World War I & II, the Botwood Cottage Hospital, Shipping and boatbuilding, the Beothuk, Antique Snowmobiles, a 1940’s

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Brett House Museum

The original section of the Brett House is at the back of the present structure. It was built in the early 1870s by John Brett (1851-1935), and was situated directly across the road from the present house. It was a very small house with an enclosed entry porch, a modest

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Dorset Museum

The Dorset Eskimo Soapstone Quarry Site consists of an interpretation centre and abandoned quarry site which was utilized by the Middle Dorset Paleoeskimo culture approximately 1,600 to 1,200 years ago. Through a number of exhibits, the centre focuses on two themes: the occupation and quarrying of the site by the

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Durrell Museum and Crafts

Built with free labour in 1910 as the Training Barracks and Armoury for a prestigious paramilitary organization in Durrell known as the Arm Lads Brigade. The museum is perched on the top of Old Maid Hill overlooking the picturesque town of Durrell. It provides a panoramic view overlooking the ocean

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