Museum Officially Open For Weekend
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 7th, 2009
Thank you all for your patience with my comprehensive and overwhelming attention to getting the Grand Opening dealt with over the last few weeks. Hundreds attended the free open house and reading of the State Proclamations last night (more on that later when the photos arrive). Now back to the field-oriented cryptozoo news, which will be posted later this weekend, if time allows, from the museum laptop.
As a FYI, the museum’s location space leasee, the Green Hand Bookshop received all its business permit clearances three hours before the Grand Opening on Friday night. Therefore, the museum can now also be open with regular hours (11 am-6 pm), starting today, Saturday, November 7, 2009, and noon to 5:00 pm, Sunday. The ICM will be routinely closed on Mondays. I may close for Sundays in January and February; it is TBA on that.
You can find me here, most of the time, now….
International Cryptozoology Museum
661 Congress Street (next to Joe’s Smoke Shop)
Portland, ME 04101
207-518-9496
Admission is a low-barrier amount, $5.00 for everyone, no group rates or discounts, in cash or check, with an ATM available at the convenience store next door (Joe’s Smoke Shop), if you need it.
Books, tee-shirts, replicas, Bluff Creek soil, Yeti playsets, Crookston busts, and more are available in the museum. The museum is in the back of The Green Hand, and has its own small gift shop (cash and checks only).
Thank you all for your congratulations offline and online, and now that things are settling down, it’s back to cryptozoology as usual.
Bless you all. More long thank yous later.
Information on the “It Does Exist!” tee-shirts is here.
Please click on the button below (not the one up top) to take you to PayPal to send in your order or helpful donations.
Thank you!
If you wish to send in your order via the mails for $25.00, by way of an international money order or, for the USA, via a check (made out to “International Cryptozoology Museum”) or money order, please use this snail mail address:
Loren Coleman, Director
International Cryptozoology Museum
PO Box 360
Portland, ME 04112
Thank you, and come visit the museum at 661 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101.
For information on Grand Opening tee-shirts, see here, and for extended memberships, click here.
Mailing will occur now next week that we regularly are in business.
- Similar Phenomena:
I’ve already congratulated you personally on this, but let me also say here that I am truly overjoyed that your museum is finally up and running. I’d like to extend my best wishes that the museum will provide an educational and entertaining glimpse into this world of cryptozoology that we love so much, and that your dreams and visions for the place are fully recognized.
I’d also like to thank the docents and all of the people who were able to help Loren out through the whole process. How I wish I could have done so too, but living in Japan doesn’t allow too much other than moral support (and I hope the coelacanth figurines I sent have found a prominent place somewhere amid all of the wealth of displays
). The docents Loren had helping him seem like good people, and the opening would not have been possible without their generosity.
Sorry for the long note, but I am truly pleased about how things have turned out. I am sure I speak for everyone here when I say congratulations Loren. You have truly earned this.
Best,
Brent
I’m aiming to fly across the pond to visit old friends in Boston sometime next year, I’ll definitely be taking a day off to drive up from there to say hello and visit the museum.
I can’t tell you how excited I was to find out that I would be sharing a birthday (Nov. 6th) with the ICM! So, happy Birth Day to the ICM, and many more to come! I’m down in the South, so I’m not sure I’ll ever get a chance to visit, but every year on my birthday, I’ll remember you and the museum.