The Milford Museum is moving, and they’re hosting a sneak peek at what their new space will look like.
For more than 40 years, the Milford Museum has been housed in the town’s original post office building. But with some 13,000 artifacts and big plans, the museum’s director, Tom Summers, says they need a new home.
“We've got lots of artifacts here we'd like to get up and put on exhibit," Summers said. "We'd like to expand that part of our mission here, and we just didn't have the room in the old post office..”
The museum is heading to the city’s old police station on Front Street. Summers says the new location will let the museum add exhibits and expand current ones.
“We'd like to expand our exhibits about shipbuilding," he said. "Shipbuilding was a huge industry here in Milford and we'd like to tell a little bit more about that story, and our military room is a major component of our museum right now and we would like to expand that a little bit.”
The museum hosts an open house at the future location on November 23 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Upgrades to the new space are expected to start this winter.
