Canadian Canoe Museum Moving All Its Canoes to Waterfront

[Glenn MacGrady]

"The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM), home to the world’s largest and most significant collection of paddled watercraft [over 600], is embarking on an extraordinary journey as it prepares to relocate its entire collection from its current landlocked location to a new waterfront campus across the city.

"To build excitement for its reopening and invite public support for this historic move, the CCM has launched a new fundraising campaign, Move the Collection: The Final Portage. . . . As a symbolic gesture of the forthcoming move of the entire collection, the two will portage a symbolic canoe throughout Peterborough, from the current museum to its new 65,000-square-foot home, for the campaign’s duration, which will release videos at different milestones."

The Canadian Canoe Museum Launches The Final Portage Campaign

PETERBOROUGH, Thursday, June 1, 2023 – The Canadian Canoe Museum (CCM), home to the world’s largest and most significant collection of paddled watercraft,

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[Benson Gray]

This is great news and a huge step forward for their project. The information at the link below may interest anyone who has ever considered donating a canoe to a museum like this or wondered about the total costs involved. The short summary is that it takes around $100,000 per canoe to build a world class museum and then cover the total costs of the building and staff for about ten years.

Benson

Canoes and museums

I'm probably not the only person here who has pondered the question of what to do with a nice canoe after I am too old to use or enjoy it. I am fortunate to have one or two that may be unusual enough to consider donating to a museum. Most museums seem to need money more than additional...

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