Dildo Interpretation Centre

Newfoundland & Labrador


This little museum has a whale skeleton and exhibits on the ongoing Dorset Eskimo archaeological dig on Dildo Island. It's not terribly exciting, but outside you can snap a picture with a fisherman in a yellow rain slicker dubbed Captain Dildo, and a giant squid, and really, how many times do you get to say that happened?


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