Harbor Springs History Museum

The Harbor Springs History Museum offers year-round public access to both permanent and rotating exhibits on the first floor of the 136-year-old building, including interactive displays for children.

The “Bringing History to Life” campaign seeks to raise immediate funds for needed preservation maintenance projects and an innovative redesign and installation of the two main exhibit galleries.  Funding will also address the addition of dramatic façade and entry signage and a user-friendly repurposing of the lobby, museum store and second floor spaces.

The campaign has also identified the cataloguing and conservation of the core of the museum’s collections – its thousands of archival records and artifacts that tell the city’s history in three dimensions – as a pressing goal.  Further campaign strategies target support of research and publishing activities and interpretive programming, including rotating exhibit preparation and video creation, as central to the society’s educational mission.

Campaign funding goal of $700,000 will address:

History Museum
-  Critical building preservation projects
-  Entrance, lobby and second floor signage and lighting
-  Main galleries redesign and installation

Interpretive Programming
-  Rotating and traveling exhibit support
-  Publishing program development
-  Video production and content marketing

Collections Conservation
-  Artifact accessioning, cataloging and care
-  Archival conservation and storage system upgrade