page_title: Maine Maritime Museum
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Maine Maritime Museum / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: Grand Banks schooner SHERMAN ZWICKER and the schooner WYOMING evocation
context_page_description: 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 a 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.
context_section_description: In the 1980s the museum resided in two sites, and a 20-minute ferry transported visitors between the two locations.
  In 1987 a $7 million construction project to build a new home for the museum one mile from the museum's campus was in progress. The new location includes the Percy & Small Shipyard, preserving the nation's only surviving wooden shipbuilding site. Winton Scott Architects designed the current Maine Maritime Museum gallery building. In 1987, Elizabeth B. Noyce donated $3.5 million towards the construction on the museum's building. The building was completed in 1989 to a size of 30,000 square feet. In 2010 it was reported the museum underwent a renovation to address water issues arising out of a design flaw in the roof.
  The museum’s campus is dominated by a sculpture, designed to reflect the Wyoming, which was the largest wooden vessel ever built in the United States. The Wyoming sank in 1924, but in an effort to connect Maine visitors with the seafaring past and raise the profile of the museum, a full-scale sculptural installation was erected in 2001 to celebrate the ship. The sculpture is almost 600 feet of empty space- which encourages viewer’s imagination to fill in the rest- and is made of white steel replicas of the Wyoming's bow and stern. The sculpture resides upon the area where the Wyoming was built, and amounts to one of the largest pieces of New England public art. In 2001 the museum raised $4 million through donations from the public and spent $300,000 from those funds on the sculpture.
  The banks fishing schooner Sherman Zwicker operates from the museum site seasonally in a partnership arrangement with the museum.
caption: Maine Maritime Museum Waterfront with the schooner Sherman Zwicker and Wyoming sculpture
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