Moncton Travel Guide

The Musée acadien de l’Université de Moncton (MAUM) occupies the Clément-Cormier Pavilion and is one of Canada’s oldest Acadian museums. Its permanent exhibition L’Aventure acadienne follows Atlantic Acadie from 1604 to 2004 — settlement, the 1755 Deportation, the return and the modern cultural revival — drawing on more than 45,000 objects, photographs and archival items. The Antonine-Maillet and J.-Louis Levesque rooms, rotating shows and an art gallery complete the visit. Interpretation is bilingual in French and English, and guided tours can be booked. Along with the cathedral and the Assumption building on campus, the museum is regarded as one of three landmarks of Acadian Moncton.

Le Pays de la Sagouine occupies Île-aux-Puces in Bouctouche Bay, New Brunswick, built around La Sagouine, the washerwoman created by Acadian author Antonine Maillet. A footbridge leads into a reconstructed fishing village where costumed actors speak Acadian French and stage theatre, music, children’s shows and crafts through the day; the kitchen serves fricot chicken stew and pets de sœur pastries. In August 2023 the park opened Akadi Lumina, a night walk created with Montreal studio Moment Factory and the first Lumina experience in Atlantic Canada. Daytime shows are mostly in French, with three bilingual Hangar presentations and English performances daily. The island can be nearly ten degrees cooler than the mainland and the visit is entirely on foot.

Centennial Park in Etobicoke, west Toronto, is a large urban park offering recreation, sport and nature. It features one of the rare in-city lit ski hills, an indoor arena, playing fields, trails, cherry trees and a pond. Most of the park is free for the public, with individual facilities such as skiing and skating charged separately.

Resurgo Place houses the Moncton Museum and the Transportation Discovery Centre under one roof. The name comes from the city motto Resurgo (“I rise again”), a nod to Moncton’s recovery through railways after its 19th-century shipbuilding economy collapsed. The permanent Heritage Collection traces the site from Mi’kmaq presence and Acadian settlement through the shipyards to the railway era, while hands-on transport exhibits, a giant interactive floor map of Moncton on the mezzanine, a learning corner and scavenger hunts fill the rest of the visit. A city tourist information centre and gift shop share the building. 2026 admission includes HST, with half-price Thursday evenings and senior Wednesdays.

Magnetic Hill Zoo, near Moncton, New Brunswick, offers an outdoor animal-walk route of about 2 km plus indoor viewing areas, keeper talks and a children's playground. It exhibits animals from around the world with a focus on animal welfare and conservation, and is one of the larger zoos in the Maritime provinces. A relaxed half-day suits a family visit.