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The museum is located in Historic Corolla Park, joining the park’s Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Outer Banks center for Wildlife Education, and the historic estate museum Whalehead. The 10,000-square-foot museum features historic boats, artifacts, and exhibits to tell the story of fishing, lifesaving stations, lighthouses, the boatbuilding industry, decoy carving, and local weather history— the region’s many-faceted relationship with the water. (1140 Village Lane, Corolla, NC; Ph. (252 435-2947; www.visitcurrituck. com/places/currituck-maritime-museum/) … The North Carolina Maritime Museum (NCMM) has been awarded a $99,209 Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The matching grant was one of 126 MFA awards announced by IMLS for 2021; the program’s
A New England Tradition For 60 Years
NCMM conservator Michelle Crepeau works in the museum’s conservation lab on an artifact recovered from a German U-boat. mission is to help museums to serve as community anchors and essential partners in addressing community needs, and to preserve and provide access to their collections. NCMM, which is currently adding an archaeological extension to its conservation lab at its Beaufort site, intends to use the funds towards the purchase of new equipment to help treat larger and more complex archeological artifacts in-house. That equipment includes a micro-air SEA HISTORY 176, AUTUMN 2021 51