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Article: Discovering the Tradewinds Children's museum renovating for new exhibit
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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BANGOR - Workers on Monday began demolishing portions of the
second floor of the Maine Discovery Museum to make way for the first
major renovation and new exhibit in seven years.
Later this spring, the space now occupied by the popular Passport
exhibit will house a new one called Tradewinds.
"It's our first new major exhibit since we opened seven years
ago," Jennifer Chiarell, the museum's marketing director, said
Monday.
"It's been several years in the making," Chiarell said of the new
exhibit, which is scheduled to open in early May.
In addition, the World Diner, a longtime favorite among the
museum's young patrons, is going to be transformed into an Italian
restaurant.
"We are still ...