Torbay Museum in Torbay, St. John's, Canada | Museum

The Town of Torbay, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, is located just 15 minutes from downtown St. John's. Torbay is home to the most startling features, with a landscape that combines a rocky shoreline with rolling hills and meadows.
Nestled among this vast scenery is the Torbay Museum. The Museum was opened on July 22, 1988 and is very appreciative of the town's spirit and support. The Museum is home to hundreds of artifacts, donated mostly by residents of Torbay. The town's municipal centre houses the Museum and as you enter and walk down the basement hallway you see a full-size model of a street that has several houses, a Museum and a library.
The display area of the Torbay Museum has grown from its original one-room parlor setting to its present day setting - fishery, carpentry and farming corners, a photo gallery and a parlour room. Some artifacts came from the St. Michael's Convent, which was closed in 1986 and helped to start this Museum. The donations from the convent were two stained glass windows, two stain glass doors and a nine-piece chesterfield set dated 1880. Because of this, the original room was made to look like the living room of a Torbay house at about the turn of the century.