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Maine State Museum staff visited the Maine State Aquarium last month to learn from others who are doing similar work. The trip will inform new museum exhibits related to the Gulf of Maine.
Like the Maine State Museum, the Maine State Aquarium was closed for several years following COVID and the discovery of major repair needs for its building at McKown Point in West Boothbay. Aquarium staff and others in the Department of Marine Resources adopted the same strategy as the museum by using their valuable “down time” to revamp, reorganize, renew, repair, and revise exhibits and programs.
Museum staff found that they and the aquarium have even more in common, from computers to whales! Both organizations are working with some of the same experts in digital interactives and whale skeleton articulation and exhibition. Seeing the aquarium gave museum staff valuable insights into their own exhibit elements and equipment, which are now in the planning stages.
The aquarium is currently closed for the season, but will open again in March 2025. Thank you, Maine State Aquarium staff for an informative behind-the-scenes visit in your wonderful new facility!
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