The Nova Scotia Museum of Industry collects, preserves and interprets the industrial heritage of Nova Scotia.
The Museum is an 80,000-square foot, state-of-the-art facility built above the historic location of the Albion Mine, the first major coal mine in Nova Scotia.
Exhibits at the Museum are highly interactive. Visitors of all ages become involved in discovering how industrial processes work. They can also see industrial tools and machines operating in a simulated historical environment.
The collection includes the two oldest steam locomotives in North America (Samson and Albion), a 1912 McKay car, the first Volvo assembled in Canada, Nova Scotian bottles and pressed glass, coal-mining implements, and some 14,000 other artifacts ranging in size from locomotives to fraternal pins.
