A museum exhibit display within a rustic room with dark wood-paneled walls and a wide-plank wood floor. Centrally located is a large, detailed model of a two-masted schooner with sails raised, enclosed in a glass case on a wooden stand.

Build Your Own

Program Highlights

Build Your Own is your way to customize your students educational experience. Your day can be planned to have a marine theme, a fishing focus, or a combination. Your museum visit can be filled with a variety of guided mini programs, be self-guided, or a combination of both. 

Curriculum Outcomes

Curriculum outcomes will vary depending on your selections, but all options have taken into consideration how your students museum experience can connect to curriculum outcomes. 

Program Length

Length varies depending on how you Build Your Own Museum experience. 

Capacity

60 +/ - 

Cost

$4 per student

Activities

Your selections of museum experiences may include demonstrations, activities, crafts, and fun. 

  • Family Fun Tour (30 min.)
  • Scavenger Hunt (30 min.)
  • History of the Cod Fishery (20 min.)
  • Squid: Jig’s Up (15 min.)
  • 5 W’s of Bluenose & Bluenose II (20 min.)
  • Mikma’ki’s Season of Life (20)
  • Dogs on Schooners (10 min.)
  • Kooky Crustaceans (20 min.)
  • Marine Communication Before Technology (20 min.)
  • Scallop Talk (20 min.)
  • Model Schooner Launch (10 min.)
  • Sea Stars (10 min.)
  • Turtle Travel (15 min.)
  • Whales Tales (15 min.)

Upon request some activities can have a craft activity added

Availability

May to October

Information and Reservations

We recommend calling to confirm availabilities of school programming. If you select the Build Your Own option, we will work with your choices to create a seamless itinerary for you and your students to enjoy.

To reserve your program please call Hilda Russell at 902-634-4794, ext.228 or email [email protected].