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The Maine Maritime Museum, formerly the Bath Marine Museum, offers exhibits about Maine's maritime heritage, culture and the role Maine has played in regional and global maritime activities.〔〔 The Maine Maritime Museum has an large and quirky collection, made up of more than 20,000 documents, artifacts and pieces of artwork and includes an extensive research library.〔 The museum is set on a scenic active waterfront on the banks of the Kennebec River and includes the historic Percy and Small Shipyard with five original 19th-century buildings, a Victorian-era shipyard owner's home and New England's largest sculpture – a full size representation of the largest wooden sailing vessel ever built, the six-masted schooner ''Wyoming''. ==History== The Marine Research Society of Bath was founded in 1962 by seven residents from Bath, Maine.〔 The early years saw the founders renting a storefront in 1964 to exhibit the collection.〔 In 1964 one of Bath's wealthy shipbuilding families, the Sewalls, gave the museum their mansion to exhibit the museum's collection.〔 It was called Bath Marine Museum until 1972 when the name was officially changed the Maine Maritime Museum. By 1983, the museum showed their collection via three sites: Sewall House, the Winter Street Centre and the Apprenticeshop.〔 In June 2010, due to the recession the Portland Harbor Museum and Maine Maritime Museum merged. The collection from the Portland Harbor Museum was moved to the Maine Maritime Museum on the basis that the Bath museum is a climate-controlled facility and the "premier facility for visitors to experience the history of Maine shipbuilding and seafaring" and the Portland Harbor Museum "received few visitors."〔 In 2012, the Gazela Primeiro visited the Maine Maritime Museum to commemorate the museum's half-century anniversary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maine Maritime Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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