Fort Point Museum

A reminder that our workshop with artist Ella Tetrault is happening this Sunday at Fort Point Museum, from 1–3 pm!

We’ll be playing with everyday objects, our bodies, and the environment to make some art together.

There’s still room if you’d like to join us!
Email [email protected] to register.

Lovely post from Archaeology in Acadie detailing the work that's been happening as well as the new partnership formed to research the site.

This week's Arti-Fact is the lighthouse light! Every lighthouse light has a unique signature flash pattern (called a characteristic) and colour combination, acting like a cosmic fingerprint so fishermen knew exactly where they were. 💡

🎩 October 6 is World Mad Hatter Day!

Ever wondered where the saying “mad as a hatter” came from?

In the 18th and 19th centuries, hat makers used mercury to turn animal fur into felt. Years of working with mercury could cause serious health problems, including shaking, confusion, memory loss and changes in mood and behaviour. The condition was known as erethism.

So while the Mad Hatter is a fictional character, there was a very real reason people connected hat making with “madness.”

This bicorne hat from our collection dates to the 18th or early 19th century, when mercury was commonly used in felt-making. 🎩

Our friends at the LaHave fire hall are having an open house this Wednesday! 🌭🍔👨‍🚒🔥👩‍🚒

Mark the date on your calendars!
We are having our open house october 7th, 6pm-8pm at our fire station!

All are welcomed, we cant wait to see see everyone!

Tomorrow is the last day of September and our last regular museum day for the season.

We’ll be open 11am–4pm tomorrow, September 30, if you’d like to stop by for one last visit.

The museum will be open by appointment through the fall and winter, and we still have programming coming up, as well as our weekly community coffee, so there will be plenty of chances to see us!

Thanks to everyone who visited and supported the museum this season. See you around the Fort!

Lots of fun at our cyanotype workshop yesterday! Thanks to everyone that participated 🌞🖌🎨

This week's Arti-Fact is a cream separator! 🥛This high-speed Swedish-engineered device revolutionized dairy farming by saving butterfat from being lost, which helped save profit margins too! 🐄

Join us Tuesday, October 20 at 6:30 PM at Fort Point Museum for our October speaker meeting with Steve Skafte.

Steve will share stories and photographs from some of Nova Scotia’s abandoned places, exploring the communities, buildings and histories left behind.

Thank you Bertrand Cahuet for sharing information about this great partnership for Fort Point Museum! And thank you for Frederic Aitken and Nicolas Robinet for making the trip to LaHave to look at the site and talk about the next steps of our collaboration!

Thank you also to Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse - FANE and Association du Centre Communautaire de la Rive-Sud for joining us on site for conversation about the project as well.

And a continuing thank you to Wesley Weatherbee and SMArts - Saint Mary's Faculty of Arts for their time and energy researching Fort Sainte Marie de Grace and helping drive this project forward.