Museums, including Geological Sites and Archaeological Digs in the Northern Avalon, brought to you by Northern Avalon Members: The Killick Coast, The Admirals' Coast, and The Baccalieu Trail. The listing of Museums is almost complete; however, please inform us of any Museums, Geological Sites, and/or Archaeological Sites that need to be added to the list. In addition, we will add any additional information or links those already listed.
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• Archaeological Digs
• Geological Sites
• Museums

From about 5000 years ago to the 18th century.
FMI: www.baccalieudigs.ca

Anderson's Cove, near New Harbour - Maritime Archaic Indians (3200-5000 years ago) - A site where artifacts were found from the Maritime Archaic Indians, the first known people to live in Newfoundland. Site not currently active. Artifacts are displayed at the Interpretation Centre in Dildo and the Whaling & Sealing Museum. South Dildo. Tel: 582-3339
Community of New Harbour with photos >>
Community of Dildo with photos >>

Blaketown - Russell's Point - Beothuk and Recent Indian Site (Starting about 1000 years ago and lasting until the 17th century) - Beothuk and Recent Indian (ancestors of the Beothuk) Caribou hunting site - 23 major
features and 1226 artifacts were recovered. Site not currently active. Artifacts can be viewed at the Dildo and Area Interpretation Centre and the Whaling & Sealing Museum South Dildo. Tel: 582-3339 Off Season 582-2687
Community of Blaketown with photos >>
Community of Dildo with photos >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.49403043 Long -53.55105886

Cupids - John Guy's Colonists (Early 17th century) - Ongoing excavations at Cupids since 1995 have uncovered a number of buildings, related features and over 110,000 artifacts. The site is open daily while the dig is in progress. Information can be obtained at the Cupids Museum where a number of artifacts are on display. In 2006, the Cupids dig was designated one of the ”Top Ten Active Archaeological Sites in Canada" by The Beaver, ‘ Canada’s History Magazine’ Tel:528-3500
Community of Cupids with photos >>
Cupids Dig - Geo Questing - Lat 47.54559556 Long -53.23208 344

Dildo Island - Dorset Eskimo and Recent Indian Sites (Starting almost 2000 years ago) - A site inhabited by Dorset Eskimo people from the Arctic between AD 100 and AD 750, inhabited by ancestors of the Beothuk
between AD 720 and AD 960, and inhabited by Beothuk when colonists arrived in 1612. Historical tours of the island are available through Dildo Island Adventure Tours. Artifacts are displayed at the Interpretation Centre
in Dildo and the Whaling & Sealing Museum, South Dildo. Tel: 582-3339 Off Season 582-2687
Dildo Island with photos >>
Dorset Site - Geo Questing Lat 47.56446831 Long -53.59144903

New Perlican - Early English Settlers ( Later 17th century) - Since its discovery in 2001, over 12,300 artifacts have been recovered, many dating to the last quarter of the 17th century. Artifacts are displayed at the Fred
Grant Memorial Building in New Perlican. Tel:583-2016
Community of New Perlican with photos >>

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Bacon Cove, Conception Harbour has a site that is of great interest to geologists. A particularly good example of unconformity between Late Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks is exposed, representing an interval of about 100 million years.
Community of Conception Harbour with photos >>

Manuels River Linear Park Fossil beds make the Manuels River one of the most geologically significant areas in North America. The beds and the river area were formed in Africa, before the African and North American continents split during continental drift over two hundred million years ago. Manuels River Linear Park >>

Spaniard's Bay- 560-575-million-year old marine organisms called rangeomorphs from the Ediacaran period have been found. Science magazine reported they are preserved in three dimensions, unlike many that have become two dimensional over eons of time. Town of Spaniard's Bay >>

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Avondale - Avondale Railway & Community Museums - Old Railway Station, Tel: 368-8268. The building itself, over 100 years old, has been declared a Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of NL. A five-car static train display contains an operating dining and cook car. A mini-train is also in operation, offering visitors the chance to ride over the old narrow gauge track. Community Museum has artifacts of the fishing & agricultural community.
Community of Avondale with photos >>

Bay de Verde - Bay De Verde Heritage House and Story Board - 7 Blundon's Point, Tel: 587-2766. Exhibits showcase the difference between the lifestyles of the mercantile and fishing classes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, has a display on the Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve.
Community of Bay de Verde with photos >>
Heritage House and Story Board - Geol Questing - Lat 48.08626729 Long -52.89757744
Baccalieu Island with photos >>
Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve - Geo Questing - Lat 48.13355617 Long -52.80138821

Bay Roberts - “Road to Yesterday” Mercantile Museum - Cable Building, Water Street, Tel: 786- 2005, After Hours: 786-3482. Email: ejerrett@nf.sympatico.ca Registered Historic Building contains exhibits depicting lifestyles and commerce in the late 19th/ early 20th century. Also, contains rare intact artifacts from 17th century shipwreck in Bay Roberts Harbour.
Road to Yesterday Museum with photos >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.59629074 Long -53.25432105

Brigus - Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site Irishtown Road, Tel: 528-4004. Hawthorne Cottage is the home of Captain Robert Bartlett. Born in 1875, the famous arctic explorer was involved in Peary's North Pole expeditions and commanded the Karluk in the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-14). Both the historical significance of Bartlett's work and the architectural quality of Hawthorne Cottage have been recognized by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. The home is furnished with memorabilia from his voyages. “Live on the Lawn", theatre performances by the Baccalieu Players, take place each summer on the Cottage grounds. Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.53536193 Long -53.20988473
Brigus - St. George's Heritage Museum Janes' Hill, Tel: 528-4713 The church contains religious artifacts of church history and is the site of theatrical and musical events during the summer.
St. George's Heritage Museum >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.53591958 Long -53.20645091
Brigus - Ye Olde Stone Barn Museum Tel: 528-4982 Displays Brigus history, with photographs dating back to 1876 and artifacts covering a period of over 200 years.
Attractions in Brigus - Ye Olde Stone Barn Museum >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.53538623 Long -53.20831463

Bell Island - Community Museum and #2 Mine Tour. 1 Compressor Hill, Tel: 488-2880 The #2 Mine site was the deepest submarine mine in the world and is a first class underground tour facility. The museum consists of two parts. First there is the Museum itself, which opened in the summer of 2000. It displays many of the artifacts from the Islands mining past. On the walls the history is told in pictures. Of particular note is the display of work by renown photographer Yousuf Karsh. The second part involves a walking tour of the underground shafts. Here you will experience what it was like to work underground. Museum and No. 2 Mine >>

Carbonear - Carbonear Museum Water Street Tel -596-0714 Holds railway artifacts, community memorabilia and a permanent exhibit "Going Foreign" which interprets the schooner trade between Carbonear and Atlantic &
Mediterranean ports. Attractions in Carbonear - Carbonear Museum >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.73738557 Long -53.22948656
Carbonear - Rorke Stores Water Street Tel 596-4949. Contains “ Balancing The Scales,” artifacts tell the story of the generations-old connection to the Labrador fishery from the days of the merchant to the life of the stationer. Attractions in Carbonear - Rorke Stores >>
Geo Questing Lat 47.73812511 Long -53.22831226

Freshwater, Carbonear -"Shades of the Past" Museum, Flatrock Road, Freshwater -Contains a photo museum of resettled communities of Conception and Trinity Bays and a reconstructed one room school complete with school books, photos of students, desks, etc.
Geo Questing - Lat 47.76107820 Long -53.18335466

Clarke's Beach Lewis Roberts Artistic Electronic Creations, Museum, and Repairs is a unique experience. Contains a replica of a royal glass coach complete with miniatures of people, a miniature railway, and historic photos of Bareneed. Previously located in Bareneed, the business has combined with Roberts' Sleepy Hollows B&B.  A new era has taken place when the two businesses combined. We are hoping it will be better for customers in the future. Contact: Lewis Roberts, PO Box 509, Glam Road, Clarke's Beach, NL A0A 1W0 Tel: 786-1307 Toll Free: 1-877-786-1307 Email: lewisrobertsac@persona.ca
Geo Questing - Lat 47.54699307 Long -53.29502089

Cupids - Cupids Museum UC Hall, Seaforest Drive, Tel:528-3500. Artifacts from the Cupers Cove dig. Exhibits from Cupids (a typical rural Newfoundland community), Newfoundland postal history, and 'Present, Miss,' an exhibit of school-days in Cupids.
Cupids Museum >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.54749993 Long -53.22830010

Dildo - Dildo and Area Interpretation Centre, Front Road Tel: 582-3339 Off Season 582-2687 Exhibits depicting the prehistory and history of the area for over 4000 years. Open: June - Sept   Daily: 10:00am to 6:00pm; Admission:
Adults $2.00, children $1.00, Family Pass -$5.00 -Wheelchair Accessible.
Mailing Address: Front Road, Dildo NL A0B 1P0. Contact: Rowena Smith
Community of Dildo with photos >>
Geo Questing Lat 47.638.85 Long -53.232207

South Dildo - Whaling & Sealing Museum - Photographic material and artifacts are on display relating to the whaling industry, prominent local whaling skippers, and the sealing industry. In addition, aspects of Beothuk
culture with archaeological finds are on display at the museum.

Hant’s Harbour - Willow Tree Heritage Museum, the Willow Tree Cemetery, and the Registered Historical Fishing Premises Tel: 586-2820. Hant's Harbour has a history that dates back to the migratory fishery in the early 17th century.
Community of Hant's Harbour with photos >>
Geo Questing - Lat 48.01500234 Long -53.26077051

Harbour Grace - Conception Bay Museum - Water Street, Tel 596-3631 Exhibits on Peter Easton, the history of early aviation including some on Amelia Earhart's first Trans-Atlantic Flight 75 years ago; an exhibit of 19th
century furniture and a photographic display depicting old "Harbor Grace." Conception Bay Museum >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47. 69366322Long -53.21143311

Heart's Content- Cable Station Provincial Historic Site Tel: 583-2160, Off Season:729-0592, heartscontent@nf.aibn.com Visitor information center and equipment displays explaining the important role Heart's Content played in the Transatlantic Communication for over 100 years.
Cable Station Provincial Historic Site >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.87262993 Long -53.36876630
Heart’s Content - Mizzen Heritage Society, Mizzen Hall, Tel: 709-583-2160 heartscontent@nf.aibn.ca Photographs, artifacts, and archival material on occupational heritage, domestic artifacts, as well as artifacts relating to the Mizzen Society’s history. The museum also provides visitors with a walking tour of the community.
Community of Heart's Content with photos >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.87009197 Long -53.36478657

Job's Cove - Flambro Head Museum and Café, Tel:584-3161 rjewers@persona.ca The museum has displays, artifacts, photos, tools and implements depicting the early lifestyles of the area.
Community of Job's Cove with Flambro Head Museum and Café>>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.9855 4020 Long -53.00784775

Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Museum Tel: 726-5272 Exhibits showcase community history, also highlight the laying of a trans-Atlantic cable at Middle Cove Beach in 1953 and the Royal St. John’s Regatta
record of 9:13, set by the Outer Cove crew of 1901.

Marysvale. Turks Gut Heritage House Tel: 528-1310 tghc@nf.aibn.com Displays on the history of Marysvale.
Community of Marysvale with photos>>

New Perlican Orange Museum, Main Road, Center of town, Tel: 583-2196, jrowe@personainternet.com. History of Orangemen, with replicas and parade dress on display.
Geo Questing - Lat 47.90852434 Long -53.35823251

Old Perlican. Beckett Heritage House Tel: 587-3028 The house, which is a Registered Heritage Structure, has mid 1800s - mid 1900s fishery homestead exhibits. Near the house is a root cellar, garden, and a boardwalk to a fishery display.
Geo Questing - Lat 48.08292786 Long -53.00485466

Port de Grave - Fishermen's Museum Hibb’s Cove Tel: 786-3900 Artifacts depict the life and work of the Newfoundland inshore fisherman. Porter House, which is furnished as a typical fishermen's home of that period
and Hibb's Hole School, one of the few remaining one room schools are part of the museum. The school has a photographic display showing different aspects of the fishery and the way of life in a small outport. FMI: www.baccalieutourism.com/baccalieu/muspdg.htm
Geo Questing - Lat 47.60054623 Long -53.218413326

Pouch Cove Museum 658 Main Road Tel: 335-2849. This museum interprets the history of the community from its earliest settlers in the eighteenth century to the present. Pouch Cove Museum >>

Sibley's Cove - Lifestyle Museum Tel: 583-2016 The Museum depicts the lifestyle of a fishing community in the 1930s
Geo Questing - Lat 48.04129201 Long -53.09927529

Torbay Museum 1288 Torbay Road Tel:437-6532 The Torbay Museum houses an array of common and curious artifacts dating from the early 1800's. The museum began its collection with a donation from the Presentation Sisters from St. Michael’s Convent in honour of their 121st anniversary. For more information see the Museum
Torbay Museum >>

Victoria - Newfoundland Lifestyle Museum. Houses the original turbines and equipment from the original hydro electric plan in the periods of 1904,1907, and 1914. Near-by are a reconstructed replica Water Powered Sawmill with an operational water wheel, a Lifestyle Museum, and a stable sanctuary for the Newfoundland pony and Newfoundland goats.
Geo Questing - Lat 47.77243886 Long -53.21435530

Whitbourne - Heritage Museum / Railroader's Memorial Station Road, Tel: 759-2345. Local artifacts particularly relating to Sir Robert Bond, a former Newfoundland prime minister, who owned an estate in Whitbourne; the
Newfoundland Ranger Force; the railway; sawmill industry.
Geo Questing - Lat 47.41514616 Long -53.52940078

Winterton - Boat Building Museum Winterton Tel: 583-2044 Exhibits include the process of boat building, the province’s oldest English headstone, and other local artifacts. Winterton Boat Building Museum >>
Geo Questing - Lat 47.95746Long -53.32920942