The Museum of Natural History
1747 Summer Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
(902) 424-7353
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Winter Hours Oct 16 - May 31
Tuesday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Free after 5:00 p.m.)
Thursday to Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday Museum closed
Open some Holidays: refer to special hours
Summer Hours June 1 - Oct 15
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Free after 5:00 p.m.)
Sunday 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Open all holidays
Sept. 4th (Mon.) Labour Day: open 9:30pm-5:30pm
Special Hours
Oct.8th (Sun.) Thanksgiving Sunday: open 1:00pm - 5:30pm
Oct. 9th (Mon.) Thanksgiving Monday: open 9:30pm-5:30pm
Nov.11th (Sat.) Remembrance Day - open 1:00-5:00pm
Dec. 23rd (Sat.) Open 9:30am-5:00pm
Dec. 24th (Sun.) Christmas Eve Closed
Dec. 25th (Mon.) Christmas Day - closed
Dec. 26th (Tues.) Boxing Day -closed
Dec. 27th - 31st Regular operating hours
Jan. 1st (Mon.) New Year’s Day - closed
Jan. 2nd (Tues) Regular hours resume
The Museum of Natural History
Get nose to nose with a Pilot Whale skeleton or the world's most accurate life-size Sei Whale model. Check out the fossil evidence for North America's oldest dinosaurs - 100 million years older than Tyrannosaurus rex. Be playful in the Bone Zone or peer down into a Bald Eagle's nest. Live displays vary with the season - local wild mice, snakes and turtles, frogs and salamanders, fish, bats, spiders, bugs, poison ivy, carnivorous plants. Kids love Gus the Gopher Tortoise, the Museum's unofficial mascot for more than 50 years. Naturalists are on duty to explain and assist. Got a question about something you saw or heard? Found something at the beach that you can't identify? We'll help you figure it out.
