Museums - Points East Coastal Drive | Prince Edward Island

The Mair Family Museum

juliepointseast@gmail.com — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:45:38 +0000

Come and meet Therese in her family’s small museum.

Open most mornings, 9am -Noon

A Collection of Odds and Ends from the Past. You will be amazed by the variety of objects and stories.

Enjoy a look at Georgetown’s past and the Mair family’s things from the bygone eras.

Please note: This small museum is a labour of love and is not funded in any way except by your generosity.

Donations gratefully appreciated.

Basin Head Fisheries Museum

admin — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:20:33 +0000

Take a tour of the Basin Head Fisheries Museum, situated on a bluff overlooking the beautiful Northumberland Strait. The Museum tells the story of the Island’s ongoing relationship with the sea, with a special focus on those who work in fisheries.

Get up close with lobster traps, ice boats and lighthouse lenses, and learn about amazing creatures that live in our rivers and along our coasts.

The Fisheries Museum is one of seven provincial heritage sites administered by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. You can purchase Heritage Passports that grant access to all seven provincial sites, with senior, student, and family rates available. Gift shop and Museum open daily throughout the season. Stay tuned for opening day 2025!

Wood Islands Lighthouse Museum

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:06:56 +0000

The Wood Islands Lighthouse, built in 1876, has a fifty-four foot square tower still attached to a two-storey, six bedroom home. Touring PEI’s most family friendly, interactive museum with eleven themed rooms will keep everyone entertained. The interpretive room will enlighten lighthouse lovers. Be intrigued by the tales of the double lives of rum-runners in the original parlor. The array of sea glass colors in the Coastal Room is mesmerizing. Let imaginations sail while watching leaping flames in the ghost ship loft. Continue to the tower top and be amazed by the stunning 360 view of PEI’s coastal scenes. Stop and shop in PEI’s last gift shop featuring Island Artisans before sailing to Nova Scotia.

Elmira Railway Museum

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:21:18 +0000

Elmira Station served as the eastern terminus of Prince Edward Island’s railway and now preserves the province’s railroading history for residents and visitors to discover.

Learn the story of railroading on the Island through photographs, maps, material and cultural objects, and the original station master’s office.

Take a ride through the woods on our trackless electric train – a wonderful experience for kids an adults alike – then ride the ‘wye’ in a 1986 Fairmount speeder train car along the original track used since the mid-1930s to turn the train at Elmira Station.Home to the PEI Miniature Railway representing railroading on PEI in its early days, and one of Atlantic Canada’s largest model train collections displaying over 200 HO scale models. Enjoy a reading nook where visitors can quietly browse through a large resource library with over 1900 railway-related titles.

Elmira Railway Museum also showcases many items from the retired CN ferry, the Abegweit. For many decades, the trains helped connect passengers to the CN ferries which took people and goods from PEI to the mainland and return. A documentary video shows a CN locomotive loading on the ferry leaving PEI for the last time in December 1989.

On display, is CN Caboose #78431, built from a railway box car in 1943. Visitors can explore the interior, which is used for children’s programming. The Elmira Railway Museum is one of seven provincial heritage sites administered by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. You can purchase Heritage Passports that grant access to all seven provincial sites, with senior, student, and family rates available.

Our Gift Shop stocks railroad souvenirs and a wide variety of crafts made by Island artisans. Stay tuned for opening day in 2025.