The impressive-looking Seamen's Museum depicts both the era of the banking schooner and the changes in the fishery over the years. Some rooms are given over to farm implements and Burin's odd history of supplying some of the province's best soccer players.
Provincial Seamen's Museum
Eastern Newfoundland
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