Marystown Heritage Museum

The Museum holds a wide variety of exhibits featuring items from the town’s long and rich history, including artifacts used in everyday life and the tools that people used in earning their livings. There is also a display of shipbuilding in the Marystown area. Admission: free Gift shop Guided tours

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Mizzen Heritage Museum

Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society Housed in the Mizzen Hall, the Mizzen Heritage Society produces various exhibits every summer which aim to educate and promote the heritage of the community. The Society’s collection consists of artifacts and archival materials which outline the community’s early occupational heritage, including the seal, inshore

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MUN Botanical Garden

MUN Botanical Garden is a place to explore and play, with cultivated gardens and meandering trails nestled in our spectacular boreal forest. You’ll discover beautiful displays of native and exotic plants, perennial and vegetable gardens, and a few surprises along the way! Explore five breathtaking trails that wander through trees,

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Museum of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

Crypt Tea Room and ToursDuring the middle of the summer, our Crypt Tea Room is a popular destination for visitors. By the way, our Crypt has never been used for its original purpose! During weekdays in the middle of the summer, the Cathedral operates a Tea Room in the Crypt,

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Museum of the Flat Earth

The Museum of the Flat Earth is currently closed. Situated precariously at one of the corners of the flat earth, the Museum of the Flat Earth welcomes tourists, visitors, and residents to view and contemplate its curious collection of artifacts. The museum sits at the intersection of fact and fiction

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NL Pharmacy Museum

The NL Pharmacy Museum, formerly the James J. O’Mara Pharmacy Museum is housed in Apothecary Hall, home to the Peter O’Mara Drug Store from 1922 to 1986. In 1922, Peter O’Mara decided that he had outgrown his location at 484-486 Water Street and decided to construct a new drug store

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North Atlantic Aviation Museum

The Museum’s collection focuses on North Atlantic aviation history as it pertains to Gander and Gander International Airport from the 1930’s to the present, with the bulk of artifacts, photos and text centering on the WWII years through the early jet age. Highlights of the collection include a 1940 Hudson

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Nurse Myra Bennett Heritage House

Nurse Myra Bennett Foundation Known throughout the province as “Florence Nightingale of the North,” Nurse Myra Bennett provided more than 50 years of nursing and medical services along the rugged coastline of the Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula. The museum is located in the 1922 built two-story traditional house which was home

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O’ Brien Farm

O’ Brien Farm Foundation O’Brien Farm is an active, working farm where people learn about and practice sustainable food production. It also tells the story of Irish settlement in St. John’s, NL through the story of the O’Brien family. Situated in the Freshwater Valley in the middle of St. John’s,

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O’Reilly House Museum

Placentia Area Historical Society The O’Reilly House was built in 1902 as a residence for William O’Reilly. In the 1940s, it became a government-owned residence for the local magistrate, and filled that role until 1984. In 1986, it was turned over to the Placentia Area Historical Society for development as

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