Fog Blog Saint John Log:

NEW MUSEUM PROPOSED TO BE BUILT UPTOWN TO REPLACE THE MARKET SQUARE LOCATION AND THE ARCHIVES ON DOUGLAS AV. PROVINCE TO FOOT 50 MILLION OF THE BILL. I hope they will preserve the historic building on Douglas Ave. They are undergoing some repairs to that building as we speak......A new New Brunswick Museum, replacing both of the institution's current locations, will be built in Saint John, the province announced Monday as it promised $50 million for the project.The new museum will be built in the city's uptown and replace the public exhibit location at Market Square as well as the archives in the older museum building on Douglas Avenue."After listening to stakeholders it became pretty clear that everybody agreed that the New Brunswick Museum should be under one roof and it should also be uptown," said Premier Brian Gallant.New Brunswick Museum looking at new options for expansion

New Brunswick Museum may relocate if new plan isn't found​While the government announced no other plans for the Douglas Avenue property, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure has been carrying out repairs on the aging building.Shannon Merrifield, chair of the museum's board of directors, said the deteriorating state of the Douglas Avenue property is one of the reasons for the new facility."It's well known that the facilities here in New Brunswick are in terrible, terrible shape," Merrifield said."Unfortunately [the] facility on Douglas Avenue is falling apart."The museum's much newer Exhibition Centre at Market Square opened in 1996 in leased space.