(IMLS) to sup port the preservation and digitization of its National Fisherman Collection of 25,000 photographs. The National Fish erman Collection was donated to the museum by Diversified Communications of Portland, M E, in 201 2 and provides unequalled documentation of Am erican commercial fishing from the 1920s into the 1990s. N ational Fisherman magazine is the com mercial fishing industry's publication of reco rd, m aking this the largest collection of 20th-century photographs in the field. W hen completed, this preservation projec t will p rovide th e only publicly available online record of the history of modern fisheries . "This collection documents the depletion of m arine resources and the technological changes our nation's commercial fish ery underwent after World War II," said the museum's executive director Liz Lodge. The museum will use the grant to catalog, archivally h ouse, d igitize, and p rovide public visual access to the collectio n o n its website . The IMLS is th e primary source of federal support fo r the nation's 123 ,000 libraries and 3 5 ,000 museums. (PMM, 5 C hurch Street, Searsport, Maine 04974; www.pen o bsco tmarinemuseum .o rg. IMLS, www.imls.gov) The Port of Mombasa will open th e first ever Kenyan maritime m useum next year. The m aritime museum will be located opposite the Kenya Navy Landing jetty, the original site of trade along the coast. Natio nal Museums of Kenya is supervising the project in collaboration with the Kenya Pons Au thority. The histo ric M tepe dhow will b e the museum's centerpiece, but the collection and exhibits will also incl ude o ld ships, other dhows, anchors, Bags, co mpasses, old cranes , and other equipment that has been used in the region . It w ill be the fi rs t and only site specifi cally designed and built for the preservatio n of the m aritime history in the region . (NMK, www.museums.or.ke) .. . Ever wish yo u could be a lighthouse keeper? With the decommission ing or selling off of lighthouses aro und the country, opp o rtunities have becom e available to the public for the
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