Events
June 27, 2019 to February 1, 2020
The Sea in Her Blood Special 2019 exhibit
Living in Mi’kma’ki-Acadie-Alba Nuadh-Nouvelle-écosse-Nova Scotia means living with the sea. Like the land we call home, every generation of maritime women is shaped by the sea – through...
November 19, 2019
Nautical Rope Wreath Workshop
6:00 pm
A popular favourite for many years, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is pleased to offer three rope wreath workshops this November. The workshops are $25.75 each, with spaces for twenty...
November 19, 2019
Book Launch: Atlantic Canada’s Greatest Storms by Dan Soucoup
7 pm
Join author Dan Soucoup for the launch of his latest book, a gripping narrative history of the most devastating storms to strike the East Coast, from the eighteenth century to the present day....
November 23, 2019
Nautical Rope Wreath Workshop
11:00 am
A popular favourite for many years, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is pleased to offer three rope wreath workshops this November. The workshops are $25.75 each, with spaces for twenty...
December 3, 2019
The Sister Ships:
The Sister Ships: SS Mont-Blanc and SS Whangape SS Imo and SS Cufic with Joel Zemel
7 pm
Author and historian Joel Zemel will discuss the genesis of SS Mont-Blanc, SS Imo (Runic 1) and their sister...
January 21, 2020
Fisheries: Photographing Fisheries in Mexico and Canada with Sylvia Calatayud
7 pm
Sylvia Calatayud began photographing fisheries in her native Mexico in 1988. Her first experience was on the coast of Baja California with the yellowfin tuna fisheries, when she was working as a...
January 28, 2020
The Mary Celeste and Sherlock Holmes
7 pm
The legend of the Mary Celeste was born in December 1872, when the ship was found adrift and empty in the North Atlantic near the Spanish Azores. No sign of the 10 people on board, including...
February 11, 2020
Book Launch: Watermark by Christy Ann Conlin
7 pm
In these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax’s moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman...