Summerside Interpretive Centre and PEI Fox Museum

Accessibility!

The building is completely Accessible! A woman named Holly greeted us outside and helped us to use the ramp to the back door, and she ensured we were able to use the elevator to get upstairs, she was ...

Learned something new about PEI!

This museum is tiny, but we learned about the history of fox farming in PEI. It was huge in the early 1900s. Thankfully, people no longer drape themselves in dead fox bodies :-) But, it's part of PEI ...

Great tour

While staying on PEI we called the fox museum and set up a private tour as the museum was not open for the summer. They do tours if you call. Two nice ladies met us there and told us the history of fo...

Stopped by after reading positive reviews

Looking for rainy day activities we decided to tour all the small local museums Summerside had to offer. The fox museum is located in the old armoury -it is an admission by donation museum it is 1 1/2...

Visited Museum because one of my ancestors was one of the fox farmers.

Raising fox for coats at the beginning of the 1900's was unique to Prince Edward Island. A pair of mating silver foxes was sold about $34,000 shortly after 1900. Fox farmers in Prince Edward Island ...