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Vision By November 2009 the Maritime & Classic Boat Museum is expecting to create and move to a new location in the vacant 3,500 square feet on the first floor of the Frances Langford Pavilion in Indian RiverSide Park, Jensen Beach, vacating the inadequate cottage on Kanner Highway. The new space will include a significant new exhibition gallery entitled, Crossing the Pond--The Age of the Ocean Liner, anchored by eight cases of handcrafted models of classic British-built steamships from 1859 to 1960. This gallery will join the Ole and Bess Evinrude Story already on exhibition in the Langford Pavilion. Additional galleries will tell the stories of selected wooden boats from the collection and a small gallery will be devoted to our arts and crafts our boat model collections and maritime art. The next step, of course, is funding and building the two beautiful new buildings designed by Quinn Evans Architects for our new Museum , located in Indian RiverSide Park, beyond the Leach Mansion and next to the U. S. Sailing Center. The new facility on three beautiful acres on a bluff overlooking the Indian River will further expand the museums space to over 30,000 square feet of indoor space and 120,000 square feet of outdoor programmable space, enabling the museum to tell the regional stories that are becoming lost, explore the wit, wisdom and creativity of families like the Rybovichs and the Whiticars, as well as give an international maritime education with ocean liners and other seafaring vessels. The Treasure Coast maritime history is a rich one and we are positioning the Museum to tell the many facets of it with the collections currently housed in a warehouse and in storage in public and private collections.
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