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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[permanent dead link], 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 |
