Social history museum focuses on the history of the Halifax Regional Municipality, with emphasis on Dartmouth and surrounding district. Archival resource centre open by appointment. Special school programs available upon request. The Historical Association encourages research, disseminates information and publishes books about the history of Dartmouth, and discusses future plans and policies affecting Dartmouth's heritage. In 2001, underground bunker tours will be conducted on the third weekend of the month beginning in June and continuing to October.
Interactive exhibits explore natural treasures in one of Canada's oldest museums.
The museum, set in the town's 25-acre park, also features temporary and travelling exhibits on a wide vareity of themes from history, science and the arts. The museum also operates Wile Carding Mill Museum for the Nova Scotia Museum. Discovery Centre's permanent collection includes chemistry and remote sensing exhibits, math and logic puzzles, The Room for Small Wonders and Bubbleworks. There's so much to discover at the Discovery Centre. When this shop was established in 1880 by John Williams, dories were in great demand for use in the fishery on the Grand Banks.