Also check with the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain New York they house the largest collection of canoes in the county. They have a top notch facility.
I would suggest contacting the Canadian Canoe Museum with your question http://www.canoemuseum.net/ .
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] birch bark canoes========================================================= Important Subscriber Information:Does anyone have experience with the "care and feeding" of birch bark canoes in their collections? We are looking for information about how you maintain them as collections objects, what particular preservation or conservation issues they may have, and also how you transport them. We are potentially facing a situation where we would be moving one by truck from another town about 4 hours away, and we would also be moving the canoe on and off exhibit once it's here. If anyone has any experience or expertise with this type of object, I'd very much like to hear from you.
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Cristin J. Waterbury
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