Museum of Industry

Nova Scotia


A fitting museum for industrial New Glasgow, this hands-on place has lots to interest the kids, including a working water tower, a machine shop and assembly line, loads of vintage machinery and vehicles, a model railway, and Samson, one of the oldest locomotives in Canada.

It's covered by the Nova Scotia Museum Pass.


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