Right on the waterfront, housed inside an old fish processing plant, this museum has a one-two punch, offering exhibits and activities both inside a historic building; and in a set of former fishing vessels, tied up at the wharf ready to board and explore. Included with your admission is access to the working wharf, where kids will have a blast exploring retired fishing schooners, attending storytelling sessions on lobster lore, feeling the creatures of the sea in the touch tank, and even learning how to shuck a scallop. Adults will want to tuck into meatier material like the history of fishing and shipbuilding, and a section on the rum runners of prohibition days. Along the dock of the museum is the restored fishing schooner, the “Theresa E. Conner”. Launched in 1937, this schooner was one of the last of its kind to be building before the introduction of the safer trawlers. Sometimes, the famous Bluenose (see “The Dauntless Bluenose” box, below) is even tied up here, Lunenburg being her home port.