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Opening Times

We are currently closed to the public for the Christmas season and will be reopening on January 6th.

Monday – Friday
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
*Tours begin at 9:00 am*

Admission Fees (including 14% HST):

5 & Under: Free

Students/Seniors (55+): $9.00

Adults: $10.00

Resource Links

Africville’s History:

The Story of Africville by the Canadian Museum of Human Rights

Remember Africville by Shelagh MacKenzie

Gone but Never Forgotten: photographic portraits of Africville by Bob Brooks, 1960s. From the Nova Scotia archives.

Africville: Canada’s Secret Racist History

Africville by The Canadian Encyclopedia

“A troubling reality of the Halifax Explosion relief effort – racism” by Sherri Borden-Colley

Racism and Relief Distribution in the Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion by Mark Culligan and Katrin MacPhee

Advocacy and Activism at the Africville Museum: Honouring Resistance and Advancing Justice  by Stephanie Danyluk, part of MUSE Magazine 2025 Winter Issue pages 38-45.

Resources on African Nova Scotian and African Canadian issues and history:

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Street Checks Report, researched and written for NS Human Rights Commission by Dr. Scot Wortley (March 2019)

Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race, chaired by Dr. Afua Cooper (September, 2019)

Ninth Floor by Mina Shum highlights racism in post-secondary insitutions and race relations in Canada, providing first-hand accounts of the Sir George Williams Riot.

Ice Breakers by Sandamini Rankaduwa reveals the buried history of the Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada.

“Author Ingrid Waldron on Africville and the history of environmental racism in Canada” by Sierra Bein

“‘Call it what it is – white ignorance’: Gentrification frays the social fabric in Halifax’s North End” in CBC Radio

The Lynn Jones African-Canadian & Diaspora Heritage Collection from the Saint Mary’s University archives