PRESS RELEASE – For immediate release November 6, 2023 HARBOUR GRACE, NL – The Conception Bay Museum has launched its first virtual exhibit with the support of the Digital Museums Canada investment program. Titled “Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace, NL (1919 – Present),” this virtual exhibit details the community’s long, exciting history of aviation through archival records, oral histories, and artifacts. The story begins in 1919, when the town played host to the Handley Page “Atlantic,” a former World War I bomber whose pilot, Admiral Sir Mark Kerr, sought to compete in the Gr ..read more

The Conception Bay Museum will launch its first virtual exhibit, developed with the support of Digital Museums Canada Investment Program, on Monday, November 6th, 2023. Titled “Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace, NL (1919-Present),” this virtual exhibit details the community’s long, exciting history of aviation through archival records, oral histories and artifacts. A LIVE Q&A Event will follow on Tuesday, November 7th from the museum itself. It will be hosted by Matthew McCarthy and Patrick Collins, and open to the general public. For those attending in person, the event wi ..read more

An online consultation session held on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, regarding the Conception Bay Museum’s upcoming virtual exhibit with Digital Museums Canada, tentatively titled “Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace (1919-present ..read more

We’ll be hosting a virtual community consultation session regarding our upcoming virtual exhibit, funded by Digital Museums Canada, tentatively titled “Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace, 1919-present.” The virtual exhibit subcommittee will be presenting the overall plan for the project and are interested in community feedback regarding its scope, proposed storyline, and implementation. The session will be hosted virtually on the Zoom video conferencing platform on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 7:00 p.m.  We encourage those interested to register for the we ..read more

It’s back! Our annual Halloween fundraiser: Haunted Harbour Grace… New route, with all new stories… Hike starts at the Conception Bay Museum, 1 Water Street East, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 28, heading east… $10 admission ($5 children, when accompanied by an adult). Drown your sorrows with the ghosts of Harbour Grace at the Easton 1602 afterparty. 19+, free cover ..read more

He’s back… Undertaker Rogers makes a summer appearance during Come Home 2022! Meet at the Conception Bay Museum at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, for a special edition of Haunted Harbour Grace. Admission is $10 per person ($5 for children, when accompanied by an adult). Tickets at the door.  New actors, new stories, same horror…  Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Time: 9 p.m. Location: Conception Bay Museum, 1 Water St East, Harbour Grace, NL Admission: $10 per person ($5 children, when accompanied by an adult); tickets at the door ..read more

PRESS RELEASE – For immediate release June 1, 2022 HARBOUR GRACE, NL – The Conception Bay Museum’s well-known Aviation Room has gotten a facelift with funding from Newfoundland & Labrador’s Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation. The revamped Aviation Room reopened for a private viewing on Friday, May 20, in celebration of the 90th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s solo transatlantic flight from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Derry, Northern Ireland. Members of Canada’s Eastern Chapter of the Ninety-Nines–an international organization of female pilots–were in attendance, along ..read more

Pictured: The Sir John Carling at Harbour Grace, September 1927. On August 26, 1927, the Pride of Detroit landed at the Harbour Grace airstrip to a welcoming crowd. Local townspeople constructed the airstrip in a mere 20 days specficially for the plane’s landing, and over the coming decades, Harbour Grace would cement its legacy in aviation lore, hosting 20 transatlantic flight attempts. The Conception Bay Museum is pleased to announce that Digital Museums Canada is investing in our new upcoming online project, Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace, 1919-present. Funded under the Co ..read more

The public is invited to visit our revamped Aviation Room on Sunday, May 22, from 1 – 4 p.m. Drop by the Conception Bay Museum for a public open house. Free admission, but donations welcome! Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022 Time: 1 – 4 p.m. Location: Conception Bay Museum, 1 Water St East, Harbour Grace, NL ..read more

Pictured: Pride of Detroit at Harbour Grace, August 26, 1927. Photo courtesy of a recent donation to the Conception Bay Museum archives. During the summer of 1927, Stinson Aircraft Corporation and Waco Oil were sponsoring an around-the-world flight. However, they had a minor problem: Newfoundland, an ideal waypoint between eastern North America and Europe, had no official airstrip. Fred Koehler, a Stinson Aircraft representative, was promptly sent to Newfoundland, where he met John L. Oke, of Harbour Grace, on a train out of St. John’s. Oke suggested he knew just the spot: near Crow Hill ..read more