Charline Lanteigne listens to the tap, tap, tap of water landing in buckets. It’s not the sound she wants to hear standing in the middle of the Restigouche Gallery in Campbellton.
“The roof is very old and we had water dripping through the hole. Now it’s in the museum,” said Lanteigne, the director and curator of the northern New Brunswick art gallery.
She said the building hasn’t had any major renovations in 26 years, and it’s not alone.
Several museums in the Restigouche region have not been renovated for years, and their managers are maintaining the buildings with limited resources.
Charline Lanteigne said that when it rains heavily at night, she fears the buckets will fill and flood the gallery floor. (Honorine Ngountchoup/CBC)
In the Rural Community of Kedgwick, the Olivier Historical Museum hasn’t been renovated in 22 years. The museum closed in 2020 at the start of the pandemic, but the museum committee remains active.
It opened in 1982 in the old fire hall of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche before moving to the old post office and finally ending up in the building of a former general store in 2004.
“There’s plumbing, there’s sheet rock, there’s paint [to be done], there’s problems with the foundation near the entrance,” said Burt Paulin, the building’s owner and president of the museum committee.
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