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| Hampton Museum on Turner |
The museum's roots lie deep in the history of the state's coastal development. What we know of its earliest incarnations is very sketchy indeed. The exhibits Joe Barbour and his family saw in 1917 were a collection of fish casts, bird skins, jars of preserved crustacea, and examples of old fishing tackle, that were assembled especially for the 1898 International Fisheries Exposition in Bergen, Norway, one of several international expositions in which the state participated between 1882 and 1893. After the expositions the state retained the exhibits and beginning about 1904, they could be seen in what was then the U.S. Fisheries Lab on Piver's Island. . . .
