Acadian Museum
The Acadian Museum in Moncton, New Brunswick,
Canada is located on the campus of the University of Moncton,
with a marvelous permanent exhibit called, The Acadian Adventure
that provides a history of Acadie in Atlantic Canada, along with
the history of its material culture. It has been separated into
two sections, with a chronological area and theme-based section
that pertains to everyday life and religion. Other displays
showcase politics and education, including Longfellow's
excellent poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. The museum houses
three galleries called; the Prairie Bayou Cajun room, the
Acadian room and the Erath room, and is located next to the Cafe
du Musee. The Erath room houses the history of the town of Erath
that is shown in photographs with captions, while the Acadian
room houses relics that pertain to the Acadian history from 1603
to the current day, with the focal point begin the Canadian
Parks poster, Acadia: The Odyssey of a People, that showcases
the expulsion of the Acadians and houses the following; the
founding of Acadia in 1604, Landwash which is a photo of the
Nova Scotian shoreline by was taken by Maurice Crosby of
Halifax, New France which is a 1719 map of North America by
Seutter, photographs of the historic site of Port Royal, the
first Acadian settlement in the new lands, the Habitation,
original 1760 navigational map that had been used by mariners to
reach the port at Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia, pottery owned by
Iberville, the founder of Louisiana, a shoe buckle and pipe stem
from Thibodeau village from 1690, stone from Georges Island that
had been used as an Acadian prison camp and much more that is
sure to interest and inform you about this extraordinary group
of people that had settled Nova Scotia, only to be deported to
an area in the United States that would become Louisiana.
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