Knaut-Rhuland House Museum

Name: Knaut-Rhuland House Museum
Address: 125 Pelham Street, Lunenburg, NS, B0J2C0, CA
Telephone: +19026343498
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Open May to September, the circa 1793 Knaut-Rhuland House Museum is a National Historic Site. Touring by costumed guides. Admission by donation.

National Historic Site, circa 1793, located in an UNESCO World Heritage Town, presenting the first 100 years of the town, a spiritual history of Lunenburg and a relief map of the original settlement.

10/13/2026

RISE for Knaut-Rhuland House - Nearly There!

Restore – Inspire – Steward - Endure

Funding the Project

The Lunenburg Heritage Society is pleased to announce significant support for the ongoing conservation of the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum.

Major funding received to date includes:
· Up to $123,605 from Parks Canada’s National Cost-Sharing Program for Heritage Places.
· $10,000 from the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage’s Heritage Development Fund.
· $3,000 from the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia.
· Two generous anonymous donations of $25,000 each.

The Society is committed to matching Parks Canada’s $123,605 contribution and has launched the RISE for Knaut-Rhuland campaign to raise $150,000. Together, these funds, grants, and donations will advance Phase Three of the Society’s multi-year conservation plan for the Knaut-Rhuland House.

To learn more about the RISE for Knaut-Rhuland campaign or to make a donation please visit our website: https://lunenburgheritagesociety.ca/pages/rise-for-knaut-rhuland

10/11/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended the public ghost hunt organized by Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation — you helped raise funds for the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum's operations and got to enjoy the unique opportunity to visit our 1793 house after dark. Many participants were intrigued by our "shoe in the wall" !

10/03/2026

We are OPEN today, October 3, for the last time this season. Come visit us between 10 and 5 and see how the Knaut, Rhuland, and Creighton families lived between the 1790s and the beginning of the twentieth century.

10/02/2026

RISE for Knaut-Rhuland House

Restore – Inspire – Steward - Endure

Phase Three includes the exterior work introduced in our previous posts, along with an accessibility assessment, landscaping, and a new garden.

To learn more about the RISE for Knaut-Rhuland campaign or to make a donation please visit our website: https://lunenburgheritagesociety.ca/pages/rise-for-knaut-rhuland

10/01/2026

RISE for Knaut-Rhuland House

Restore – Inspire – Steward - Endure

Funding the Project

The Lunenburg Heritage Society is pleased to announce significant support for the ongoing conservation of the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum.

Major funding received to date includes:
· Up to $123,605 from Parks Canada’s National Cost-Sharing Program for Heritage Places.
· $10,000 from the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage’s Heritage Development Fund.
· $3,000 from the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia.
· Two generous anonymous donations of $25,000 each.

The Society is committed to matching Parks Canada’s $123,605 contribution and has launched the RISE for Knaut-Rhuland campaign to raise $150,000. Together, these funds, grants, and donations will advance Phase Three of the Society’s multi-year conservation plan for the Knaut-Rhuland House.

To learn more about the RISE for Knaut-Rhuland campaign or to make a donation please visit our website: https://lunenburgheritagesociety.ca/pages/rise-for-knaut-rhuland

09/30/2026

The Knaut-Rhuland House Museum will be closed today in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The Knaut-Rhuland House Museum operates in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq.

Before Lunenburg was named Lunenburg in honour of King George II, who was also the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and before it was called Merligueche by the Acadians, it was known to the Mi'kmaq as E'se'katik (the place of clams) since time immemorial.

This place is covered by the Peace and Friendship Treaties of 1725-1779. These treaties recognized the title of the nations in the Wabanaki Confederacy and established an ongoing nation-to-nation relationship that included settlers, such as the so-called Foreign Protestants who settled in Lunenburg in the 1750s.

Address

125 Pelham Street
Lunenburg, NS
B0J2C0

Opening Hours

10am - 5pm

Telephone

+19026343498

Website

https://lunenburgheritagesociety.ca/pages/knaut-rhuland-house-museum, https://lunenburgheritagesociety.ca/pages/rise-for

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