Keillor House Museum

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

CREDIT : UNB Archives & Special Collections
is all about sharing food and recipes! Even though food is not permitted in Archives, we do have a wide selection of recipes and cookbooks! 🍳 Association of Canadian Archivists

05/22/2026

The Albert County Historical Society is hosting an Exhibit Opening and Fundraising Evening at the Albert County Museum in Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick on Saturday, June 6th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm to support the establishment of a new permanent display. The Hillsborough Mastodon Exhibit will share the discovery of the rare mammal found in 1936. The fundraiser is to assist in supporting the Exhibit, and to help share the Natural History of New Brunswick.

The event begins with a reception at 6:00 pm in the Exhibition Hall with appetizers, beverages, bar (by donation), live music and activities, including a unique mastodon scavenger hunt. The Court House and County Jail will also be open to explore that evening.

Tickets are $50 each and are available at the Museum gift shop; by calling 506-734-2003, or by purchasing online: https://www.albertcountymuseum.com/onlinegiftshop/mastodon-opening-event Donations are also welcome, and tax receipts provided for donations over $20.

For information or media inquiries, contact 506-734-2003 or 506-588-4508 or email: [email protected]. The Albert County Museum is located at 3940 Route 114 in Hopewell Cape, NB. Information can be found at: www.albertcountymuseum.com

05/11/2026

(Une version française suivra)

It's time to get excited! Summer of History is back, and you're invited to the official launch next week at MR21!

This program is presented by Association Heritage New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Museum, and supported by Tourism, Heritage, and Culture NB. Big thanks to MR21 for hosting and sponsoring this event!

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, May 13
🕓 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
📍 Location: MR21, 224 St. George St, Moncton, NB

Enjoy a complimentary reception with appetizers and refreshments. There will be a short presentation introducing the campaign.

Come celebrate the stories, people, and places that have shaped our province. We can’t wait to see you there!

For more info, contact Erin Jeffries at [email protected] or 506-454-3561.

04/07/2026

Join us for the season - we are hiring! Check out the job postings on Indeed https://ca.indeed.com/jobs?q=museum&l=dorchester+%2C+NB&from=searchOnHP%2Cwhatautocomplete%2CwhatautocompleteSourceStandard&vjk=ec74b286ddea94d1
Apply with a resumé, two references, cover letter detailing how you meet the eligibility criteria. E-mail to: [email protected] on or before April 19th, 2026.

02/25/2026

CREDIT: Souvenirs de la Péninsule acadienne - Jean-Guy Cormier
Winters of the Past. Caraquet, March 1967.

02/24/2026

Heritage is an important industry sector bringing dollars into the province..support your local museum!

🪧 History in New Brunswick is an endangered species. Already the lowest funded heritage sector in the country, it faces extinction in the coming budget.

Meanwhile, New Brunswick is literally surrounded by examples of places that don’t just preserve history, but profit from it. Nova Scotia, PEI, Maine and the Gaspe all invest in their tourism sectors and see massive financial returns.

New Brunswick, not so much.

(📸 Pictured: Visiting the museum for Andrew Bonar Law, the New Brunswicker who was elected Prime Minister of Britain. OR is it a ghost of heritage future if these cuts go through?)

Let’s talk numbers.

In 2022, the arts and culture budget was $13 million. Sounds like a lot, right? Well, the return on this investment, according to ArtsLinkNB, was a whopping contribution of $609.6 million to New Brunswick’s GDP, supporting 7,311 jobs.

Funding our culture, heritage and yes, our museums is not mere nostalgia — it is good economic sense!

Every dollar invested in museums multiplies through the local economy, hiring staff, supporting local authors and artisans, maintaining historic buildings, and keeping visitors here longer. That money flows to hotels, restaurants, cafés, pubs, and shops.

If you don’t like these cuts, you need to tell the people making the decisions. And angry Facebook reacts don’t count! But the Association Heritage New Brunswick has made it easy.

Using this spiffy site, it only takes seconds to generate an email to contact your MLA:

➡️ saveourmuseums.ca

Download that letter and email it to your MLA. You can find their contact information here:

➡️ legnb.ca/en/members/current

That’s it. It's like three clicks. It'll take like thirty seconds plus one email to stand up for more than 100 museums across this province. You can do it, I believe in you! And it really does matter to these MLAs!

As Canadian economist John Ralston Saul put it: “Cuts can’t produce growth or prosperity or effectiveness … We must force ourselves to concentrate on the content that is at stake.”

And what’s at stake is our story.

02/22/2026

Heritage is important preserving our stories for the future. When these assets are gone it will be an incredible loss. Let your government know..the few dollars they spend on heritage will not impact the budget but the loss is there forever.

Fisherman's Life Museum. 'It represented a lot of us.'

"It strikes me as extremely short-sighted and it's such a dangerous precedent that a museum that is in public hands … can just be disregarded and kind of cast to the side," said Matthew Hughson, who worked as the site supervisor at the Fisherman's Life Museum for eight years.

Former employees at the museum on the province's Eastern Shore said closing it will be a blow to tourism in the rural community and to the preservation of the area's heritage. The museum represented a traditional fishing family's home, and a way of life that included both hardships and charm.

"It represented a lot of us," said Amanda D**e, who worked at the museum for nine summers as a heritage interpreter. "It's where a lot of us came from — fishing families, rural, living-off-the-land type of people and professions.

For the full article see the story by Frances Willick · CeeBeeCee News · Posted: Feb 20, 2026.

02/14/2026

Interesting info on the Acadian story that sculpted our geography and community.