The dungeness river audubon center will design, fabricate, and install updates to three of the center?s exhibit areas

The Dungeness River Audubon Center will update three of its exhibit areas under a $102,562 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program. The Center will design, fabricate, and install new salmon, watershed map, and children's discovery exhibits. It will engage local experts to create scientifically accurate displays illustrating the Dungeness River watershed's trails, villages, and restoration sites. The updated exhibits will better support the Center's ecosystem education mission. Awarded Sep. 1, 2021 and set to be completed by Aug. 31, 2023, the funding will allow the Dungeness River Nature Center to strengthen its ability to serve the public, consistent with the goals of the IMLS' MFA competitive grant program.

Project activities include engaging subject matter experts from the center, the jamestown s?klallam tribe, the olympic peninsula audubon society, and community stakeholders to create the following three areas: an alcove devoted to interpreting the salmon who call the dungeness watershed home; a large-scale, three-dimensional relief map of the dungeness watershed; and a children?s discovery area. The updated exhibit areas will be more scientifically accurate and will show trails, roads, historic tribal villages, and watershed restoration sites; illustrate landscape features from high country to the strait; and support the ecosystem exhibits.