New museum exhibit to focus on shipbuilding and modelling
The Thunder Bay Museum has a new exhibit on its second floor.
Small Scale: Tall Tale offers Thunder Bay residents a chance to learn about Lake Superior’s maritime history though the use of model ships.
The exhibit will also tell the story of ship modelling, and look at how modelling interacts with the wider world of ships and shipbuilding.
Models of particularly notable ships for the region, such as the HMCS Port Arthur, will be on display.
Through the exhibit, attendees will be able to follow the region’s seafaring stories from Indigenous canoes and the fur trade, to the industrial revolution, to the city’s wartime shipbuilding tradition.
The exhibit will run until October 11, 2026.
