PHMC has also invested $400,000 for a new roof at the Erie Maritime Museum, $250,000 for the planned installation of flood-control doors and $250,000 for upgrading the environmental controls in the museum’s collections storage area. It also spends $350,000 annually to support the Flagship Niagara League for sailing and maintaining the vessel. In the current fiscal year, PHMC invested more than $400,000 for repairs to the Brig Niagara.
Brig Niagara and the Erie Maritime Museum. The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission is the official history agency of the commonwealth. The Flagship Niagara League is a nonprofit educational associate organization of the PHMC, and was chartered to facilitate public participation and operation of the U.S. More: Here's why Erie's Brig Niagara will undergo repairs, Coast Guard inspection in Cleveland That means fewer stops or shorter trips to ports of call for the Brig Niagara, the replica of Oliver Hazard Perry’s relief flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie, and more time in Erie. "Since we'll see it in Erie more, people can do more day sails and things like that than they normally could."
"But in non-Tall Ships years, we'd like to see visitors and residents see the brig in Erie," Pollman said.
The Brig Niagara will sail to other ports of call where Tall Ships festivals are being held this summer. Tall Ships Erie, a four-day festival that happens once every three years, returns this summer from Aug. "They've often operated kind of independently of each other and so, again, we're hoping for closer alignment." "With the Niagara, we want more integration with the programs of the Maritime Museum," said Howard Pollman, of the Pennsylvania Historic & Museum Commission.
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