fundy geological museum

A small museum but lots of information. Great explanations for local tides and rocks. Nice play/learn areas for children. Interesting gift shop with unique items. Nice little facility out front for dogs.

The staff were very friendly & helpful. We learned more about the tides and the area. Worth the stop.

The rocks rock. Carrie rocks. We enjoyed the museum and made some purchases. Upon making some purchases, we asked the gift shop if it was possible for them to ship our rocks. I noticed blueberries were native to the area and asked if they had blueberry syrup. I wanted a non-perishable native product to bring back home to the USA. They told me to come back tomorrow and give Carrie our shipping information. I returned the next day and gave Carrie our shipping info and credit card. I happened to mention to Carrie that I was disappointed that they didn't have blueberry syrup. When I received my package in New Hampshire, USA, there was a gift of blueberry syrup from Carrie. She is a delight! It's a small but enlightening museum.

This museum is an easy to follow, step-by-step, informative museum. Not very big, but full of information about the geology, and history in and around Nova Scotia.Well done.

I really enjoyed this museum! It's creatively organized, has interactive exhibits, and children's activities I wanted to do too. We would have gone on a beach tour had we known in advance what the timing is. The gift shop is great!

I'm married to a geologist and so this sort of thing is always on our list. We've seen many wonderful museums over the years and this one is very nice. It is small, but everything is hands on and the kids had a great time.We were arriving very shortly before closing time so they waved our fee. After viewing the small place I was especially appreciative as it was a lot of money to spend on what was accidentally a short visit.One of the coolest things to see was what goes on behind the scenes. There are 2 windows where you can see specimens that are being worked on a cataloged before being put on the floor for viewing. This was a very interesting peak! There were several packages of bones - different sizes and different wrapping and several machines and tools used for prep. Fascinating.Also, there is a fossil dig. I've seen these before, but never one with a grid. This makes so much sense to kids to try and explain that you need to work with a pattern and a plan. This way no one disturbs the wrong spot, digs somewhere twice, or worse - misses a spot! I hid the 'fossils' several times so my little geologists would find them. They loved this part.This was educational and fun - the best of both worlds. The ladies in the entrance/gift shop area could not have been nicer - polite, patient, cheerful.I highly recommend this place for the little travelers in your midst!!

Very child-friendly, but could do with more for adults, took about 45 mins to see. Great tour to Wasson's Bluff with two geology students the following day.Very friendly staff

I was disappointed in this place. I am interested in geology, so I was really excited to travel from Halifax... but the place was much smaller than I expected, and the exhibits are too few for the entrance fee they charge. I am sure they can do better to make more people come. It is a far place to visit, but a lot more people love to travel if they can do better presentation about rocks, minerals, and fossils. There were some events going on when I visited but they are mostly for little kids.

We had been passing over rocks on the beach with small black marks and/or white dots. Come to find out they were fossils. Would have loved them for my classroom. Come here first instead of last on your Fundy Beach vacation.

The Museum offers opportunities for visitors to explore the gallery, and offers tours of the exhibits by students during the summer months. There are also guided walks that the museum offers to provide experiences that expand the exhibits to rocks seen outside along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. There are plans to develop more exhibits that involve interactive exploration features, including new exhibits and educational programs that focus on the importance of sedimentation in preserving the dinosaurs from the Bay of Fundy.If there are specific exhibits or activities you would like to see more of please contact the museum and share your thoughts. We are always interested in improving the experience of our visitors.

Today we spent the day in Parrsboro, our primary destination being the Fundy Geological Museum, since my 7 year old is a huge dinosaur guy. As soon as we walked in, he was greeted by a "real life" Palaeontologist, who proceeded to give him a personalized tour. I don't know that he realizes the impact this made on my boy, he was overwhelmed at the time and didn't say a whole lot, but took everything in. What a wonderful place to visit, take the time to read all the info and experience all the exhibits, it's a great spot. Even I (who has little interest in dinosaurs) learned some cool stuff. We will be back, at low tide so we can check out the beach and walk where the dino's walked. Thank you!

We are glad that your kids continued to talk about their museum experience. The Fundy Geological Museum renovated the exhibit gallery a couple of years ago, and design for young visitors was given considerable attention. We are also continuing to add new displays and exhibits. Just a week ago we reorganized the Fossil Research Lab, and it is now possible to look into the lab to see museum staff preparing fossils. There are new exhibits that will be added over the next year as well. Hopefully you will enjoy exploring these new features when you visit us again.

Sorry to hear you found your visit disappointing. The Museum has updated the exhibit gallery two-years ago with new displays that increase accessibility of the content to a wide audience, including children and adults. I recently joined the Museum as the new Director/Curator. During the past couple of weeks we have reestablished the Fossil Research Lab, and visitors can now look into the research lab and see museum staff exposing and cleaning real dinosaur bones. We are planning new exhibits that will increase the scope of the scientific content including adding more fossil taxa, extinctions and exhibits about phylogenetics and evolution. I hope you will visit the museum again sometime soon.

We are glad you had a good visit to the museum. The Fossil Research Lab has recently been reorganized and we are glad that you enjoyed watching the museum staff (Acadia student) expose the dinosaur bones and they were able to interact with you in the exhibit gallery. The Curatorial staff are studying the bones of Canada's oldest dinosaurs, 200 million year old fossils found on the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Hope to see you again sometime soon.

This is the second time I have visited this museum, first time without my kids. This is a great display of the prehistoric era of Parrsboro and that area of Nova Scotia. This was a wet day so I didn't go down to the rocks, but the staff was very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommend as an activity for a couple of hours, with or without kids.