Sights in South Shore
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Knaut-Rhuland House
Knaut-Rhuland House is considered the finest example of Georgian architecture in the province. This 1793 house has costumed guides who point out its features.
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Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
The knowledgeable staff at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic includes a number of retired fisherfolk who can give firsthand explanations of the fishing industry. A cute aquarium on the 1st floor lets you get eye-to-eye with halibut, a 6kg lobster and other sea creatures. Film screenings and talks are scheduled throughout the day.
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Lunenburg Academy
Lunenburg Academy is the huge black-and-white turreted hilltop structure visible on your way in from Halifax. Built entirely of wood in 1895 as a prestigious high school, it is now a public school that can be toured daily in summer at 15:00.
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Captain Angus J Walters House
Donated to the town by the descendants of Captain Walters, who skippered the famous Bluenose, Captain Angus J Walters House is dedicated to preserving the history of the man and the schooner.
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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Practical Yarmouth is the unexpected home to the refreshingly cosmopolitan Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The new three-story building has well-selected works from mostly Maritime artists.
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Yarmouth Light
Yarmouth Light is at the end of Cape Forchu, a left on Hwy 304 from Main St. The lighthouse affords spectacular views and there's a tearoom below. Stop at Stanley Lobster Pound, where you can get a fresh-cooked lobster at market-value price to take and eat on the beach.
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Yarmouth County Museum
This museum, in a former church, contains five period rooms related to the sea. A regular single admission ticket (adult/student $3/0.50) includes Pelton-Fuller House next door, which is filled with period artwork, glassware and furniture.
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Sherman Hines Museum of Photography
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Rossignol Cultural Centre
Local character Sherman Hines' most fabulous endeavor is a must-see for anyone who enjoys the offbeat. There are lifelike halls of taxidermy animals, cases of gorgeous aboriginal beadwork, walls of Hines' beautiful photography (including his Mongolian adventures) and a room dedicated to outhouses around the world. If you love it so much you don't want to leave, an authentic Mongolian yurt (with en-suite bathroom) is for rent adjacent to the museum for a $100 per night donation. Admission to the museum includes entry to the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography.
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Queen's County Museum
This museum has First Nations artifacts and more materials relating to town history as well as some writings by early citizens.
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Perkins House Museum
Perkins House Museum displays articles and furniture from the colonial period. Built in 1766, it's the oldest house belonging to the Nova Scotia Museum.
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Pelton-Fuller House
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Hank Snow Country Music Centre
The Hank Snow Music Centre sheds light on Nova Scotia's status as a northern Nashville. In the old train station, it captures the history of Snow, Wilf Carter and other crooners and yodelers.
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Fort Point
At Fort Point a cairn marks the site where Frenchman Samuel de Champlain landed in 1604. You can blow the hand-pumped foghorn in the lighthouse , at the end of Main St.
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