Museums in Canada

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

This Novia Scotia museum showcases local history through miniature models built by one man.

Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

The former site of the world's largest paper mill is now a museum preserving the heritage of Canada's pulp and paper industries.

An exhibit dedicated to a physicist who dedicated his life to proving the existence of UFOs.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

A wonderful museum on the site of the historic Black Bear Mine on the back of Red Mountain.

A community-owned museum that celebrates the history of the shipbuilding industry in this part of Nova Scotia.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

Everything in this two-story house—down to the mounted deer head on the wall—was carefully crafted from concrete.

One of Whitby's first homes is now a showcase of the lifestyle of early Canadian families.

A small museum in Newfoundland is home to a 227-foot tapestry that preserves the remote region's colorful history.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.