The Cape Breton Centre for Heritage and Science is located in the Lyceum on George Street, Sydney.

The New York Dramatic Mirror carried this announcement when the Lyceum construction began:

Sydney,N.S. The great iron manufacturing town of Canada , which has within the last year grown from a village of 3,ooo people to a city of 20,000 is to have a theatre and the finest equipped in Eastern Canada . . . There is no other theatre in the city and as there is beside the people of Sydney m a growing population of 3500 within the raedius of 15 miles , with excellent steam and electrical connection it is an excellent place for business.

The Lyceum was built on an empty lot next to Sacred Heart Church on George near Dorchester Street. The land had been owned by Branch 189 of the Grand Council of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Assn. of Canada (CMBA). For years their building stood on the south side of the Lyceum. The trustees of the CMBA Sydney Branch , who were Fr. MacAdam, Allan MacIntyre and Edward Hanrahan signed the property over to the Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish for $4,000.00 by deed dated July 16, 1903. The original cost estimate to build the Lyceum was $30,000 which escalated to $37,000. The work was completed on May 19, 1904.

Hours of operation

June, July & August
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
September - June
Monday 1:00 a.m.
Tuesday through Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Closed Saterday and Sunday