New Brunswick Museum enhances website to boost tourism
November 14, 2024 · Saint John, New Brunswick · Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) Tourism helps showcase Atlantic Canada’s beauty, diverse cultural heritage and unique stories on the world stage. By supporting tourism operators and cultural institutions, the Government of Canada is helping to fuel local economies, creating jobs and empowering
NBM displays Bricklin concept car to mark iconic automaker’s 50th Anniversary
Heralded as an engineering marvel, the first Bricklin rolled off the assembly line at 245 Industrial Avenue in Saint John on August 6, 1974. The New Brunswick Museum is pleased to mark this historical moment with a pop-up display of select Bricklin artifacts from the Museum’s collection at Saint John’s
BiotaNB returns to Loch Alva PNA August 14 – 27
The New Brunswick Museum is leading the 13th annual BiotaNB field project this summer, the second of a two-year plan to document the biodiversity of the 22,000-hectare Loch Alva Protected Natural Area (PNA), near Saint John. The project will take place from August 14 – 27, and will see more than
A tribute to Laurie D. Murison, 1959–2021
The late Laurie Murison was Executive Director of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station and a great friend of the NBM. It was with Laurie’s support that the skeleton of Delilah the North Atlantic Right Whale was collected for the Museum. When Delilah – a first-time mother with
Diptych created by New Brunswick mat hooking groups added to Museum’s permanent collection
Two New Brunswick mat hooking groups have created a diptych that has been added to permanent collection of the New Brunswick Museum (NBM). This is the story so far… In 2008, a group of volunteers in collaboration with the NBM established the New Brunswick Mat Registry (NBMR), a province-wide, bilingual
New Brunswick Museum and Marco Polo Quilters’ Guild present 2024 New Brunswick Contemporary Quilt Award
The New Brunswick Museum and the Marco Polo Quilters’ Guild are proud to present the juried New Brunswick Contemporary Quilt Award for 2024. This year, two quilts will share the award and will be added to the permanent collection of the New Brunswick Museum. New Brunswick Contemporary Quilt Award, a
Jack Humphrey – Celebrating a New Brunswick Master
The creative journey of New Brunswick painter, Jack Humphrey, is quite remarkable. After time spent training in Boston and Provincetown in Massachusetts as well as New York City and Oyster Bay, New York, he even studied in Europe for a year, before he brought his Modernist vision back to his
Ask a Conservator Day 2024 with Dee Stubbs-Lee
November 3rd is Ask a Conservator Day. To celebrate, we’ve asked Dee Stubbs-Lee some questions on her experience as a conservator for the New Brunswick Museum: What is conservation? Conservation is the art and science of preserving objects of our cultural or scientific heritage for the future. The Canadian Association
Necklace made by Private Charles Morgan added to NBM collections
Charles Henry Morgan, Canadian, born in England, 1886 – 1967 necklace, 1916-1918 glass and faceted brass beads with cotton overall: 66 × 1 cm Gift of Wendy Jacobson, 2022 (2022.13) Thanks to the generosity of Wendy Jacobson of Newport, Virginia, the New Brunswick Museum has recently added a modest necklace
Black History Month – February 2023
As sorting, cataloguing and research occurs at the New Brunswick Museum, additional or more detailed information is brought to light. Digitization permits the sharing of information that had been available previously only at in-person visits. For Black History Month, February 2023, some newly digitized archival material were featured each week.