Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
Mission Statement
To establish a facility that will enhance the community, state, and region by creating
a resource which brings together the historical, cultural, artistic, environmental, and
educational elements needed to preserve the rich waterfowl heritage of eastern North
Carolina associated with the Core Sound area.
Progress to Date
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum now operates from a temporary location on Harker's
Island where changing exhibits, demonstrations, and outreach programming have established
its role as a working museum.
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum now holds a membership of more than 2,000 from across the
state of North Carolina and beyond; a volunteer base of more than 100 throughout the year,
and a staff of two full-time and one part-time employees.
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum's current budget of more than $200,000 is supported solely
by its membership through donations, events and gift shop operations.
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum currently attracts thousands each year to this facility
making it a tourist destination for a growing tourist market in Carteret County and
eastern North Carolina.
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum Gift Shop & Gallery provides support to that facility
with sales of more than $60,000 in 1994, $83,000 in 1995, $106,000 in 1996, and a goal of
$125,000 in 1997.
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum staff and volunteers are currently working on research and
documentary projects with North Carolina State University, the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wilmington, the North Carolina Arts Council, and other
institutions
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum currently holds a long-term lease with the National Park
Service for 16 acres of maritime forest located at Shell Point on Harker's Island.
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum has secured the financial and technical support of Ducks
Unlimited in the restoration of the Willow Pond, a four-acre natural freshwater pond
located within the museum property which will serve as an educational exhibit for
waterfowl habitat. This area was flooded in the spring of 1996 and is already drawing
waterfowl to this freshwater source. Viewing areas have been completed and all are invited
to visit the site.
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