04/05/2007: "SJ Historical Museum Awarded Grant"

The San Juan Historical Museum has $10,000 more toward the Museum’s capital campaign for a Barn Project, thanks to a grant from the Norcliffe Foundation. This is the first grant the Museum has received from the Norcliffe Foundation Norcliffe Foundation.

the Barn Project involves an extensive redesign and upgrade of the Museum’s existing barn, built onsite in 1982, to make the building architecturally integrated into its 19th century setting, while bring it into compliance with public-access standards. The new barn will be the premier exhibit space for the Museum’s important, large-scale industrial exhibits on the subjects of fishing, farming, lime quarrying, and logging, and will be the new home of the Jim Crook Collection of rare hand-fashioned wool processing equipment. Plans for the expanded site also include fun hands-on exhibits for children and families, and new lecture and workshop programs.

The Norcliffe Foundation grant brings the Museum closer to its overall $75,000 fundraising goal for the project, of which nearly one-half has been pledged or raised to date, including a matching grant from the Washington State Heritage Resource Center. The Barn Project is scheduled to be completed in 2009.