Knaut-Rhuland House Museum

06/18/2026

The Nova Scotia’s Halftime 50-50 Draw tickets for Week 60 are now on sale! Please consider supporting us by selecting "Lunenburg Heritage Society/Knaut-Rhuland House Museum" at checkout. We receive a portion of all such earmarked sales. The Knaut-Rhuland House Museum's operations rely on your donations. Purchase your tickets here: https://nsshf.com/nova-scotias-halftime-50-50-draw/

06/16/2026

The easiest way to support the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum is by purchasing or renewing your Lunenburg Heritage Society membership. For only $10/year, you will help the Society promote, preserve, and interpret Lunenburg's heritage, including by operating and improving the Museum. Membership also enables you to vote at Annual General Meetings and you will be updated on the Society's activities through regular newsletters. Renew or purchase your membership here: https://lunenburgheritagesociety.ca/pages/become-a-member

06/15/2026

06/14/2026

The gift shop at the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum has been restocked! The popular Lunenburg Doors puzzle can only be purchased directly from us. We also have a selection of books on folk art and local history for both children and adults, as well as notecards for any occasion. Our new cards featuring the Knaut-Rhuland House and an interior view of the "Knaut Room" are made by a fifteen-year-old artist, Claude Fulton of LaHave. Last but not least, the raffle tickets for Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival have arrived! Open daily 11-5.

06/12/2026

The Nova Scotia’s Halftime 50-50 Draw tickets for Week 59 are now on sale! Please consider supporting us by selecting "Lunenburg Heritage Society/Knaut-Rhuland House Museum" at checkout. The Knaut-Rhuland House Museum's operations rely on your donations. Purchase your tickets here: https://nsshf.com/nova-scotias-halftime-50-50-draw/

06/11/2026

Many people come to the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum to learn about the settlement and early history of Lunenburg, while others are interested in Georgian and early Victorian architecture and furnishings. These birdcage Windsor chairs made by the renowned chairmaker George Gammon of Cole Harbour (ca. 1838) are on loan from the Nova Scotia Museum and can be viewed in the "Knaut Room" on the ground floor of the museum. We are open 11-5 daily until the end of August, admission by donation.

06/10/2026

This lecture organized by the South Shore Genealogical Society might be of interest to anyone researching their family history!

School registers reveal a great deal. When I looked up my father’s school records it taught me a lot about the way their family lived when his dad was at sea. Hope you will join us for Joan’s very interesting lecture ⚓️

06/09/2026

There is still time to purchase your Halftime 50-50 tickets before tonight’s draw (June 9 at 7:30 pm). Please support us by selecting Lunenburg Heritage Society/Knaut-Rhuland House Museum when you enter your payment details. (Link in the original post) Your support makes our mission to preserve, interpret, and promote Lunenburg's unique heritage possible!

06/07/2026

The Knaut-Rhuland House is all ready for Founders' Day! Open 11-5 today and free walking tours to Rous Brook leave from the museum at 11:30 and 2:30. All are welcome!

06/06/2026

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow, June 7, which is Lunenburg's annual Founders' Day! This Founders' Day come learn about the settlement of Lunenburg at the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum. The museum will be open 11am to 5pm with costumed interpreters, rhubarb punch, and cookies. Admission by donation.
At the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum, you can see how Benjamin Knaut, Conrad Rhuland, and other Lunenburg settlers would have lived and entertained between the 1790s and the early twentieth century.
At 11:30am and 2:30pm, join our curator and historian Jay Lalonde for a guided walk to Rous Brook, where the first settlers landed in 1753.
The walk is about 1.6 km on mostly flat, paved terrain, and takes between 1hr and 1hr 15 minutes. (Bring an umbrella!)

This Founders' Day (June 7) come learn about the settlement of Lunenburg at the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum !
The museum will be open 11am to 5pm with costumed interpreters, rhubarb punch, and cookies. Admission by donation.
At the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum, you can see how Benjamin Knaut, Conrad Rhuland, and other Lunenburg settlers would have lived and entertained between the 1790s and the early twentieth century.
At 11:30am and 2:30pm, join our curator and historian Jay Lalonde for a guided walk to Rous Brook, where the first settlers landed in 1753.
The walk is about 1.6 km on mostly flat, paved terrain, and takes between 1hr and 1hr 15 minutes.