All jokes aside about no one ever expecting any museum to ever make a profit anyway, the International Cryptozoology Museum of Portland, Maine, has been officially reorganized and recognized as a State of Maine nonprofit corporation. Verification arrived yesterday of our September 15th filing.

The short version of our mission is that we are “organized as a public benefit corporation for the purpose to educate, inform and share cryptozoological (the study of hidden or unknown animals) evidences, artifacts, replicas and popular cultural items with the general public, media, students, scholars and cryptozoologists from around the world.”

The International Cryptozoology Museum presently exists at 661 Congress Street, Portland, Maine (not Oregon, as some people think). The museum is moving to our new location around the corner at 11 Avon Street, during the next few weeks.  We anticipate we will close the last week of October to recurate the collection in our larger space.

This 2009 photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette documented an earlier move.  Loren Coleman of the International Cryptozoology Museum packs up artifacts along with volunteers Jeff and Jessica Meuse, who are helping Coleman with his move.

Our grand reopening is scheduled for Sunday, October 30, 2011, from noon to 6:00 pm. We shall have a new admission price starting in November, slightly higher for adults than what we have now. For the grand reopening, however, our admission price for everyone will be $2.00, with donations gratefully accepted.

If you can’t make it, assist us today, if you can:

And do visit us when you are in Maine!!