New Brunswick·Museum Road Trip
The more than 100 museums of New Brunswick abound with treasures, but few are likely to have an artifact that could have been a prop in the horror movie The Shining.
Museum in southeast N.B. maintains several historic buildings, including a courthouse and jail
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Jul 11, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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The old Albert County Courthouse, one of the heritage buildings on display at the Albert County Museum. (Jordan Gill/CBC)
New Brunswick has more than 100 museums and heritage sites. In our summer series Museum Road Trip, CBC News will highlight eight small-town historic places.
The more than 100 museums of New Brunswick abound with treasures, but few are likely to have an artifact that was once key evidence about an axe murder.
At the Albert County Museum, however, you can view a hacked-up door that looks like something out of the horror film The Shining.
The door was a key Crown exhibit in one of New Brunswick’s most notorious murder trials, the Tom Collins trial of 1907.
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