Blue Beach Fossil Museum The Google rating is 4.5

The Blue Beach Fossil Museum, located minutes from Hantsport and Grand Pré in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, offers amazing displays of remarkable fossils from Blue Beach that hold the key to evolution’s greatest mystery: the oldest four-legged creatures (~350 million years) that ultimately led to the amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of today.

Discover the world’s oldest collection of fossil footprints and rare bones of creatures that time left behind. Learn about the variety of extinct fish evidence – including the fossilized bones of a 5m (15 ft) long beast that could crawl on its fins. You’ll also see fossilized plant material that represents some of the earliest Carboniferous Forests ever seen.

Blue Beach, located a short walk from the museum, is regarded as a famous fossil site by paleontologists and geologists from around the world, thanks to the unique fossils and evidence of the first vertebrates to venture on land, found here. The fossil trackways that were first discovered in 1841, have made Blue Beach the official birthplace of vertebrate paleontology in Canada!

Visitors are advised to experience the museum first to help them identify what to look for at this world-class Bay of Fundy fossil site.