Good Will Home Association

The L.C. Bates Museum’s ornithology collection will be to be preserved for the use of researchers, scientists, school groups, and museum visitors. This project will conserve and safeguard 55 unique historic and scientific ornithological taxidermy mounts and their historic case or container housing and provide related educational programming about collections care. The preserved birds–which include endangered and threatened species–will better meet audience educational and scientific research needs, and enhance museum activities that support school learning results and STEM. The museum will also present a workshop for Maine museum peers on how to care for scientific mounted collections, and write and disseminate a collections care article related to the project.