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Our mission is to enhance the public understanding of the unique maritime heritage of the Portland Harbor community. We use volunteers in many capacities to help us achieve our mission.

Description:
Our museum is a non-profit educational institution. We employ a director, a curator, and a membership and volunteer coordinator, but our group of over 80 dedicated volunteers enables us to open our doors each day. Each year we mount one new exhibit and also maintain a permanent exhibit on Snow Squall, the last American Clipper Ship. The museum is open to the public from April through November, and during the winter months we have a lecture series. We also are beginning to provide educational outreach opportunities. Volunteers help us guide, shopkeep, research, mount exhibits, entertain guests, maintain our building, maintain our shop and exhibits, help in the office and process collections. There is an opportunity for everyone!

History:
Portland Harbor Museum was founded in 1986 to conserve the bow section of the Snow Squall. For nine years the museum existed as a conservation laboratory, but in 1995, the trustees changed the mission. We are now a more traditional museum, with changing exhibits, growing collections (including Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse) and a dedicated staff, board and volunteers.

Contact people:

Rebecca Lazure, Membership And Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Hadley Schmoyer, Curator, (phone), (email) Mark Thompson, Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (207) 799-3862

Address:

Fort Road-SMCC Campus South Portland, ME 04106 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.portlandharbormuseum.org

Directions:

Exit 295 onto Forest Avenue onto Route 77. Follow State Street across the Casco Bay Bridge. Stay on Broadway all the way to the end. You will come to a three-way stop where you will be facing. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Southern Maine Community College, 4 minute walk

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