In the Museum, you will find comprehensive collections of images, cameras and artifacts from all of the key figures in the history of Nova Scotian photography – Dodge, Garber, Gavin, Gentzell, Hines, Knickle, MacAskill, Rogers, Sponagle, and many others.

As well as the Nova Scotians, you'll be delighted to discover a generous number of remarkable photographs by William Notman, Yousuf Karsh, Edward Muybridge, Joseph Rodgers, Arnold Newman, and others which are on permanent display.The Museum also proudly boasts a fine selection of photogravures by Edward Steichen, Clarence White, J. Craig Annan, Alvin Langdon Colburn, Frank Eugence and Seeley.

Other offerings of historical significance include extensive displays of stereoscopic viewers with stereo cards, as well as cameras, tripods, tintypes, Woodbury types, magic lanterns, lantern slides, film boxes, jewelry, Victorian albums, and thousands of other early photographic artifacts.

The collection of stereo views covers a wide variety of topics, including comic, architecture, fishing, hunting, travel and many more.

A rotating selection from the collection of over seventy-five union cases containing ambrotypes, daguerreotypes and ferrotypes is always on display.

These displays are both educational and entertaining, providing a wonderful insight into the history of photography in Nova Scotia and around the world. The Museum's dazzling collection of some of the finest prints available will leave you awestruck... and perhaps even motivate and encourage you to get behind a lens yourself!