From black to green and everything in between: cliff-side museum explores how natural resources have shaped Canada’s culture

Take a virtual tour of the museum at the UNESCO-listed Joggins fossil cliffs on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia to celebrate International Museum Day 2018

Perched on a cliff overlooking the Bay of Fundy sits one of the greenest buildings in Nova Scotia. When the Joggins Fossil Cliffs Centre was completed in 2008, it was awarded a gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification by the Canada Green Building Council. Powered by the latest green technology including solar panels and a wind turbine, the building sits on the site of one of the oldest coal mines in Canada.

Dr. Melissa Grey, Curator of Palaeontology at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs Centre, likes to point out to visitors this seemingly unnatural connection between the green building and the old black coal mine on which it is built. The contradiction highlights the important role mining played in the birth of so many Canadian towns.

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