Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Maritime museum in downtown Halifax, Canada.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a building on Lower Water Street holding over 30,000 maritime artifacts, including ship portraits, models, and the CSS Acadia steamship. The collection spans several floors and includes equipment from shipyards, navigation instruments, and personal items belonging to sailors.
The institution was founded in 1948 at HMC Dockyard and relocated several times. In 1981, it moved into its current building near Halifax Harbour.
The museum's changing gallery has hosted travelling shows on maritime social history: in 2009 it presented Ship of Fate, the first Canadian exhibit on the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, and in 2011 it became the first museum in North America to mount an exhibit on the lives of gay seafarers, Hello Sailor, adapted from the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
The facility opens on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 20:00 and Wednesdays through Sundays from 9:30 to 17:30. Admission is free on Tuesday evenings.
The collection includes one of the few surviving deck chairs from RMS Titanic. Numerous wooden objects recovered from the vessel are also held here.
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