Victoria Castle

It was terrible. We felt unsafe in both rooms because of the crowd size. Very disappointing.

Some students left scrambling as Tim Houston’s budget cuts axe their summer jobs - Halifax Examiner Gwendolyn Williams discovered she couldn't return to Perkins House Museum when she called to inquire about her return, but no one answered. Later, she learned the Liverpool museum had closed.

Some students left scrambling as Tim Houston’s budget cuts axe their summer jobs

reported by @mmughees.bsky.social

As the powerful burn it all down, regular people are the source of decency, humanity, and common sense - Halifax Examiner Seemingly all the guiding institutions — religion, law, media, political parties, and more — have shamelessly abandoned their moral responsibilities.

As the powerful burn it all down, regular people are the source of decency, humanity, and common sense

Morning File by me

There is a connection between progress of a society and progress in the Arts.

Evergreen.

I could not care less about sports today

Fair.

What fresh hell awaits?

Today was the worst

We put our fanciest spoon under our pillow and ice cube in the toilet.

Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From acr...

Sadly more relevant than ever.

A red Honda civic parked on the sidewalk near Victoria Park.

Halifax at lunch

A photograph of Roger Lewis, former Mi’kmaq Cultural Heritage Curator, kneeling in a wooded area. He is looking down at a large stone on the forest floor. A white paper with a black circular line drawing of a Mi'kmaq petroglyph design is placed on the ground next to the stone. He is wearing glasses, a brown jacket, and blue jeans.

The Nova Scotia Museum extends its heartfelt congratulations to Roger Lewis, former Mi’kmaq Cultural Heritage Curator, on his appointment to the Order of Canada.

Graphic with the text Nova Scotia Museum Collections Online and a Plate Of Baleen

NEW - Explore Our Collections

This new site, Nova Scotia Museum Collections Online, allows users to explore of some of the highlights in the Nova Scotia Museum collection. We will be adding content regularly.

collections.novascotia.ca

#NSMCollections #NovaScotiaMuseum #novascotia

Watercolour from the Nova Scotia Museum’s Cultural History collection painted in Halifax, ca.1819, by Christian Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie, depicts couples dancing and Lady Dalhouise being greeted at a ball. (1786-1839). 85.119.32 D-2

On December 16th, we’re joining readers around the world in celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth — with a Halifax twist in a blog post from Lisa Bower, History Collections Curator. (Image 85.119.32 D-2)

museum.novascotia.ca/blog/jane-au...

Graphic with the text “Hold up the train. Munitions ship on fire and making for Pier 6 ... Goodbye boys.”

Vincent Coleman sends his final message. His station 750 ft from the centre of the blast, disappeared. #HalifaxExplosion “Hold up the train. Munitions ship on fire and making for Pier 6 ... Goodbye boys.”

Crowds on the Halifax waterfront.

December 1917 - Fully embroiled in the First World War Halifax was quickly evolving into a world class port and major base of naval operations. /thread #HalifaxExplosion

Thank the maker. I thought it was just mine.

A fish box filled with pieces of a green turtle specimen.

Conservation Technician, Christian Demmings has begun the puzzling work of reassembling the skeleton with Dr. Brenna Frasier, Curator of Zoology at the Nova Scotia Museum.

#novascotia #behindthescenes #turtle

A close-up, slightly blurred vertical shot of the internal structure of a dried turtle shell (carapace) fragment. The focus is on the center, showing the vertebral column fused to the shell's underside. The bone is a light beige color, and the individual vertebrae segments are visible. The edges of the shell fragment fan out into sharp, thin projections or spines.

Specimen NSM 55678 is a green turtle (Chelonia mydas), that was found dead, presumably cold-stunned, in Morden, Nova Scotia in 2009. This species is usually found in subtropical and tropical regions, but is more frequently being seen in Nova Scotia waters.

Residents are invited to the annual Halifax Explosion Memorial Service on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 9 a.m. at the Bell Tower in Fort Needham Memorial Park.

This event will honour those who were lost and recognize the resiliency, recovery and rebirth of our community.

Learn more: buff.ly/G1IT1oO

A part of the AIDS quilt with the name Raymond Clarke

A part of the AIDS quilt with the name Terry

A part of the AIDS quilt with the name Leigh Le Roy

A part of the AIDS quilt with the name Denny

Part of the AIDS quilt is on display at the Halifax Central Library. It was a privilege to witness it and read their names. #halifax #novascotia #worldAIDSday

blue lobster.

blue lobster, close up of the side of the face.

blue lobster, close up of the face, looking down.

This blue lobster is about one in two million, and displays the beautiful blue colouring due to a genetic mutation. This mutation suppresses other colours (red, yellow, green).

#NovaScotia #Lobster

Curator Lisa Bower holding a purple quilt.

Lisa Bower is a museum curator and historian who specializes in material culture studies about Nova Scotian samplers, needlework and 19th century African Nova Scotian schools.

#Museum30 #specialist #novascotia

Owl’s claw, clenched.

Owl claw. Unlike humans, in a relaxed state an owl’s claws are clenched.

Thanks to Dr. Brenna Frasier Curator of Zoology for these posts.

#halloween #spooky #nsmstrange #novascotia

Raven.

Raven (Corvus corax) taxidermy specimen. One of the primary ways to distinguish a raven from a crow is by their larger beak.

Thanks to Dr. Brenna Frasier Curator of Zoology for these posts.

#halloween #spooky #nsmstrange #novascotia

Our Senior Conservator, Ian Loughead sitting is a chair vacuuming a robot vacuum with a small handheld vacuum.

Our Senior Conservator, Ian Loughead took some time this morning to vacuum our robot vacuum, Todd, with his tiny handle vacuum.

#museumlife #novascotia

Bringing workers back to the office full time won’t save our downtowns - Halifax Examiner Business and public leaders are jumping on the back-to-office bandwagon, embracing the slide backwards from remote work. The question is why?

Bringing workers back to the office full time won’t save our downtowns

There are so many personal, professional, social, and environmental benefits to working from home.

This commenter shares their thoughts:

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/b...

Jesus Christ.

A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons.

You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.