North Carolina Maritime Museum (NC Maritime Museum)

The North Carolina Maritime Museum plans to improve the conservation lab at their Beaufort location and to process an enhanced scope of underwater archeological artifacts which include contents taken from sunken U-boats and Civil War shipwrecks and represent more than 300 years of North Carolina maritime life. The museum will expand its conservation capabilities by purchasing an array of new equipment. A better equipped lab will allow the museum to treat larger and more complex items inhouse and prepare them for display more quickly. All conservation work will be done in public view as a “living exhibit.” It will hire a paid intern to help with conservation tasks while engaging the public in learning about conservation science and underwater archaeology.