Skip this place and go to the discovery centre instead.

The whole museum takes less than an hour to see in its entirety, most of the exhibits felt pretty dated, and the interactive sections were extremely well-used and many were glitchy, broken, too quiet to hear, or just worn out in general.

Other museums around Nova Scotia find creative ways to engage children with unique interactive elements, enthusiastic presenters, etc, but this museum mostly just had a few TV screens with buttons that (if they worked) change the video being displayed (Which again, you can't hear), and some drawers/flaps that reveal animal bones next to large blocks of text for the children to ignore. The few more interesting elements (the microscope, the whale-sound phone, etc) were poorly maintained and kids were lining up for turns on them.

The coolest part was the planetarium room, which projected images of planets/moons onto a big sphere in the middle of the room, but the controls were glitchy and the projector display was so low-res it just felt lame; You could make out far more features of the planets on the little touchscreen display than you could on the 8 foot wide projection. My child is obsessed with astronomy and was bored of it in less than a minute.

The reptiles were fun, and they weren't just the usual lizards/snakes you see at a pet shop, which was refreshing. There was a lot of beautiful taxidermy, and one presenter teaching kids about starfish anatomy.

Parking was plentiful and cost $1.50/30 mins, which felt steep.

Staff were friendly, and the facility felt clean. Several areas were under construction when we toured through.

The gift shop didn't have much in it, and the museum didn't offer any food or refreshments, other than some junk food in the gift shop.