
How do you connect the future to the
past and the past to the present?
How do you
explain to an inquiring visitor, a teenager, a grandchild, a
friend from another generation – that San Juan Island has a rich
industrial
history? How do you tell the intriguing stories of industrious
islanders, who fished, farmed, logged and quarried and processed
limestone here?
The answer is
the
San Juan
Island Museum of History and Industry (MHI),
an interactive educational facility
currently being developed at the San Juan Historical Museum. It
is housed in a recently expanded late 19th
century reproduction barn on the museum grounds. The
MHI
will interpret and exhibit the living history of four industries
that shaped and sustained San Juan Island for generations:
Fishing, Farming, Logging and Lime.
Making use of historical artifacts,
images, multimedia and interactive displays, the exhibits will
be installed in five separate sections, including a welcoming
atrium and rolled out in phases with an estimated completion
date of late 2016.
For a minimum contribution of $250 you
can buy a brick and own a part of San Juan Island history and
help pave the way to the
MHI!
Please
join us
in this effort –
help us
to continue to create the
San Juan Island Museum of History and
Industry. Become a part of
a legacy of information and education which will benefit current
and future generations of San Juan Island residents and
visitors.
