[IanWatson]

Most of the museums in NS must have been part of a rural economic development strategy, no? And to some degree it works. I'm sure Sherbrooke Village doesn't "make" money, but it does get people to go up the Eastern Shore who wouldn't otherwise.

Halifax and Dartmouth could definitely use a civic museum. There are thousands of documents and artefacts that are just mouldering away in a storage building in Burnside. It would be nice to actually see them.

That being said, I don't think a civic museum needs to be particularly large or extravagant, and it certainly wouldn't take up the whole post office lot. It's a pretty huge property. Maybe the post office building would work well for a museum and a modern development could be wrapped around it.