Look for a low, modern cream-and-red building with a broad glass entrance and the bold Eureka! name set across the front.
Eureka! began with a brilliant transatlantic leap... in nineteen eighty-five, Vivien Duffield visited a children’s museum in Boston and came back determined to create that same hands-on magic here in Halifax. What she imagined was the exact opposite of a “look but don’t touch” museum. This is a not-for-profit educational charity built for families, especially children from zero to eleven, where kids and grown-ups learn side by side through play.
She helped raise nine million pounds to make it happen, and this former British Rail site beside the station became the perfect stage. Prince Charles thought the empty land could help revive Halifax, and he opened the museum on the ninth of July, nineteen ninety-two. Architect Ken Moth, working with Building Design Partnership, or B-D-P, shaped the building, while a whole team of designers packed it with imagination. Tim Hunkin created the Archimedes display at the entrance, Satoshi Kitamura brought in playful cartoon signage, and inside you’ll find worlds like All About Me, exploring the body, SoundSpace with Orby the Alien, a miniature town square for Living and Working Together, a sensory Wonder Walk, and even The Beach, a vast sandpit.
The museum opens every day from ten A-M to five P-M. This place turns curiosity into something you can almost touch. When you’re ready, we can continue to the next stop.
