List of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador
Introduction This '''list of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada''' contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Name Town/City Region Type Summary Abbott's Wildlife Museum  Bonavista  Bonavista Peninsula   Natural history   information Admiralty House Museum  Mount Pearl     History    Local history, wireless communication and Guglielmo Marconi, the tragedy of the S.S. Florizel and other shipwrecks and maritime artifacts Banting Interpretation Center  Musgrave Harbour     History   website, life of Sir Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, who was killed in a local 1941 airplane crash Barbour Heritage Village  Newtown     Open air   website, includes a schoolhouse, sealing interpretation center, fisherman's stage, theatre, art gallery, and visitor reception center Battle Harbour Heritage Properties  Battle Harbour  Labrador   Open air   website, restored salt fish premises and community Beaches Heritage Centre  Eastport  Eastport Peninsula  Art   website, arts centre with art gallery, theater Beckett Heritage House  Old Perlican  Avalon Peninsula  Historic house   information, mid-19th century - mid-20th century fishery homestead Bell Island Mine Museum  Bell Island  Avalon Peninsula    Mining   website, artifacts, equipment and tour of iron ore mine Blackhead One Room School and Church Museum  St. John's     History     information, open by appointment, 1879 chapel that was originally constructed as a one-room school Bird Cove Interpretation Centre  Bird Cove  Great Northern Peninsula   History   website, local history including pre-historic cultures, explorers and settlers Bleak House Museum  Fogo     History   information, local history Bonavista North Museum & Gallery  Wesleyville  Bonavista Peninsula    Multiple   website, local history, contemporary art gallery Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation Centre  Boyd's Cove     First Nations   website, archeological artifacts and exhibits about the Beothuk settlers Burin Heritage Museums  Burin  Burin Peninsula   Multiple    information, includes 1910 Bank of Nova Scotia Museum with local history and culture exhibits, 1920 Reddy Heritage House with period furnishings and the Burin Cottage Hospital Exhibit Cape Bonavista Lighthouse  Bonavista  Bonavista Peninsula    Maritime   website, lighthouse technology and lightkeepers' lifestyles Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site  Cape Spear  Avalon Peninsula  Maritime  Lighthouse and 1939 period keeper's residence Carbonear Railway Station Museum  Carbonear  Avalon Peninsula    History   website, local history Castle Hill National Historic Site  Placentia  Avalon Peninsula   History   Fort ruins, exhibits on the fort and the fishing village Christopher Pratt Art Gallery  Bay Roberts  Avalon Peninsula   Art    website, located in the Western Union Cable Station building, works by artist Christopher Pratt and changing exhibits Colony of Avalon Interpretation Centre  Ferryland  Avalon Peninsula  Archaeology    website, history and artifacts from the Province of Avalon, reproduction 17th century room with kitchen, archaeology dig site Commissariat House  St. John's     Historic house    website, 1830s period house built to supply the city's garrison Conception Bay Museum  Harbour Grace  Avalon Peninsula    History   website, local history, pirates, aviation Cupids Museum  Cupids  Avalon Peninsula  History    website, local history and culture Demasduit Regional Museum  Grand Falls-Windsor     Multiple    website, local history, artifacts and culture of the Beothuk and other are settlers; branch of The Rooms. Formerly Mary March Provincial Museum. Dildo Area Interpretation Centre  Dildo  Avalon Peninsula    History   information, local history, archaeological artifacts from Maritime Archaic Indians, Dorset Eskimo, recent Indians and Beothuk; interpretation of the 19th Century cod fish hatchery Dr. Henry N Payne Community Museum  Cow Head  Great Northern Peninsula  History    website, local history and culture Durrell Museum  Durrell     History   Local history Fishermen's Museum  Port de Grave  Avalon Peninsula    Multiple   website, includes exhibits on life and work of the Newfoundland inshore fisherman, Porter House, a typical fisherman's home, and a one-room school Flambro Head Museum and Café  Job's Cove  Avalon Peninsula    History   information, local history Fluvarium  St. John's     Natural history   Freshwater ecosystems French Shore Interpretation Centre  Conche  Great Northern Peninsula  History    website, area history and culture, artifacts from shipwrecks Gateway Labrador  Labrador City  Labrador   History    website, local history including aboriginal inhabitants, fur trading pioneers, mining, railroads, hydropower Glovertown Museum  Glovertown     History   local history Green Family Forge  Trinity  Avalon Peninsula    History    website, historic working blacksmith shop Grenfell Campus Art Gallery  Corner Brook     Art   website, part of Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site  Brigus  Avalon Peninsula   Historic house   19th century period home of Arctic explorer Bob Bartlett, exhibits about his life and travels Heart's Content Cable Station  Heart's Content  Avalon Peninsula    Media    website,  information, site of the end of Cyrus West Field's first Transatlantic telegraph cable Hiscock House  Trinity  Avalon Peninsula   Historic house    website, 1910 period house Hopedale Mission National Historic Site  Hopedale  Labrador   History     information,  information, local history, Moravian and Inuit artifacts from the 19th century James J. O'Mara Pharmacy Museum  St. John's     Medical    website, operated by the Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board, 1895 drug store with equipment Johnson Geo Centre  St. John's     Natural history   Geology of the earth and the province, including volcanoes, earthquakes, rainstorms, climate changes, impact on humans Labrador Heritage Museum  North West River   Labrador   History    information, local history Labrador Interpretation Centre  North West River  Labrador    First Nations    website, founding peoples of Labrador, including Innu, Inuit, Metis and settlers; branch of The Rooms Labrador Military Museum  Happy Valley-Goose Bay  Labrador   Aviation    information, items from the Canadian, American, Dutch, German, and British Air Forces Labrador Straits Museum  L'Anse-au-Loup  Labrador    History    website, local history with a focus on domestic life and the role of women in communities Lamaline Heritage Museum  Lamaline  Burin Peninsula   History    website, local history, 1929 tidal wave disaster L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site  L'Anse aux Meadows  Great Northern Peninsula   Living    Reconstructions of three Norse buildings, archaeological remains Lawn Heritage Museum  Lawn  Burin Peninsula   History    website, local history Lester-Garland House  Trinity   Avalon Peninsula    Historic house    website, reconstructed 1819/1820 period brick house Lifestyles Museum and Cooperage  Victoria  Avalon Peninsula   History    website,  information, blacksmith and cooper tools and equipment Loder's Point Premises  St. Lewis  Labrador    History    information, local history and fishing industry heritage Logger's Life Provincial Museum  Grand Falls-Windsor     Forestry    website, recreated 1920s logging camp; branch of The Rooms Mockbeggar Plantation  Bonavista  Bonavista Peninsula   Industry    website, 1939 period fishing plantation house, fish store, carpentry shop, cod liver oil factory Musgrave Harbour Fisherman's Museum  Musgrave Harbour     Maritime   website, fishing industry artifacts Net Loft Museum  Rigolet  Labrador   History    information,  information, local history, tools and equipment of the fishing industry Newfoundland Insectarium  Reidville     Natural history   Mounted and live insect displays Newfoundland Power Electrical Museum  Victoria  Avalon Peninsula   Technology     information, former hydro power station and replica sawmill Norstead: A Viking Village and Port of Trade  L'Anse aux Meadows  Great Northern Peninsula   Living    Viking era port of trade village North Atlantic Aviation Museum  Gander     Aviation   Historic aircraft and the history of aviation in the province Point Amour Lighthouse  L'Anse Amour  Labrador    Maritime   Mid 19th-century lighthouse, exhibits on the maritime history of the Labrador Straits Pouch Cove Museum  Pouch Cove  Avalon Peninsula   Technology     website, local history Provincial Seamen's Museum  Grand Bank  Burin Peninsula  Maritime    website, fishing industry and life along the coast; branch of The Rooms Quidi Vidi Battery  St. John's     Military    website, artillery battery during the War of 1812 Railway Coastal Museum  St. John's     Railway   Red Bay Community Museum  Red Bay  Labrador   History    website, local history Red Bay National Historic Site  Red Bay  Labrador   History   website,  information,  information, 16th century whaling artifacts, archaeological finds Road to Yesterday Museum  Bay Roberts  Avalon Peninsula  History    website, turn-of-the-20th-century store and business displays, local history, located in the Western Union Cable Station building The Rooms  St. John's     Multiple   Includes the Rooms Art Gallery Rorke Store  Carbonear  Avalon Peninsula    History   website,  information, local history of the store, town's people and the fishing industry Royal Canadian Legion Military Museum  Grand Falls-Windsor     Military    information,  information, operated by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 12 Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Police Museum  St. John's     Law enforcement    website, open by appointment Royal Newfoundland Regiment Museum  Pleasantville     Military    information, history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Ryan Premises National Historic Site  Bonavista  Bonavista Peninsula    Open air   website, restored merchant's premises with exhibits about: inshore, Labrador, international and seal fisheries; traditional Newfoundland outport furniture; local history museum about the inshore fishing community Signal Hill National Historic Site  St. John's     Multiple    Exhibits about the fort site and a Marconi wireless station Torbay Museum  Torbay  Avalon Peninsula   History    website, local history Trinity Interpretation Centre  Trinity  Avalon Peninsula    History    website, local history Trinity Museum  Trinity   Avalon Peninsula    History    website, local history Twillingate Museum  Twillingate     History   Local history and culture Whitbourne Heritage Museum  Whitbourne  Avalon Peninsula    History    information, local history White Elephant Museum  Makkovik  Labrador   History    website, local history Willow Tree Museum  Hant's Harbour  Avalon Peninsula   History    information,  information, local history Winterton Boat Building Museum  Winterton  Avalon Peninsula  Maritime    website Wireless Relay and Interpretation Centre  Fogo     History    information, local history, in particular the old Fogo wireless station Ye Matthew Legacy  Bonavista  Bonavista Peninsula   Maritime   website, i5th Century replica of John Cabot's ship ''Matthew'', exhibits about his voyage to Newfoundland
References *  Museum Association of Newfoundland & Labrador