History
This museum is the result of more than five decades of field research, travel, and dedication to gathering representative materials, native art, footcasts, hair samples, models, and other cryptozoological samples. Its director, Loren Coleman has moved his cabinet-of-curiosities home museum collection to a more formal foundation establishment in a planned, secure fashion. He and a dedicated battery of volunteers opened the museum, first in 2003, and then moved to the downtown public location on November 1, 2009, as the world's first cryptozoology museum. On September 15, 2011, the next step was the nonprofit incorporation of the Museum in the State of Maine, and then moving into a larger venue for our broad mission purposes.