Prime Berth Fishing Museum

Top choice in Newfoundland & Labrador


Run by an engaging fisher, this private museum, with its imaginative and deceptively simple concepts (a cod-splitting show!), is brilliant, and fun for mature scholars and schoolkids alike. It's one of the first places you see as you cross to Twillingate.


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