Queen's County Museum

Nova Scotia


This surprisingly interesting town museum has displays exploring Liverpool's privateering history, some wonderfully intricate First Nations artifacts, and a frankly disturbing exhibit showing the instruments of local doctor John Falt, including a leech carrier, a bloodletting device and some horrifying dental tools.


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