Queens County Museum
The Queens County Museum is a heritage museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
History
The Queens County Museum was established in 1980. The building was constructed to resemble a colonial warehouse, as it is located next to the Perkins House Museum, which is a preserved colonial home built in 1766.The museum is home to the Simeon Perkins diaries, which detail Perkins' life in Liverpool from 1766 to his death in 1812.
A book containing a Babe Ruth autograph was donated to the Queen County Museum in 2015. In 1933, 11-year-old Granville Nickerson approached Ruth, who was visiting Liverpool, and asked him to sign his copy of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
In 2016, the museum received a grant of 2,000 from the Region of Queens Municipality, the first grant received from the municipality in 35 years.
In 2017, the Queens County Museum agreed to begin operating the historic Liverpool Courthouse, which had sat vacant since 2015. After the Queens County Museum took ownership of the courthouse, it became the Queens Museum of Justice & Exhibit Centre.
The Queens County Museum began operating the Fort Point [Lighthouse (Nova Scotia)|Fort Point Lighthouse] in Liverpool as a seasonal attraction in 2021.