Wood Islands Lighthouse and Interpretive Museum
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The Museum
The Wood Islands Lighthouse Interpretive Museum is located in Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island. If you take the first right just outside the Northumberland Ferries compound (or your last left as you approach the Northumberland Ferries compound) and follow a winding dirt road you will find yourself at the Wood Islands Light Station. The lighthouse has ten exhibits displaying the history of Island lighthouses, the rum running period, the various light keepers, the Northumberland ferries and the fishing industry on Prince Edward Island. The kitchen, bedrooms and lantern have all been restored to how they would have appeared in the days of the lighthouse keeper. You can also learn about P.E.I’s famous phantom burning ship.
What We Did
The team from the Community Museums Association spent a week in Wood Islands. A new filing system which contains new registration forms was introduced. Training was done with the employees on the new system. The museum’s existing paperwork was reorganized. This involved assigning the new format accession numbers on all records bearing the previous accession style. The team labeled several artifacts which had not been labeled in the past. The main focus was to photograph as many of the artifacts as possible. This was done room by room and in all four of the ten exhibition rooms were completed. The artifact images were resized, edited, and renamed as their new accession number and burned to a CD.
The Artifacts
The artifacts shown below are just a few examples of what can be seen currently on display at the Wood Islands Lighthouse and Interpretive Museum.
WLI.2003.284.01
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WLI.2003.297.08
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WLI.2003.361.01
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WLI.2006.321.01
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