HOOKED RUG MUSEUM OF NORTH AMERICA FINDS HOME IN QUEENSLAND

L to R: Vice Chair Hugh Conrod,Director Sherri Chandler,CFO Ian Grant,Founding Director Suzanne Conrod and Chair Tom Murdoch pose with one of Suzanne's latest rugs illustrating the burning of the Privateer ship the Teazer after the press conference.

Hugh and Suzanne take a peak inside the new digs.

The future site of The Hooked Rug Museum of North America as it looks now. The site and building will undergo major improvements to become a world class museum and research facility for one of the oldest art forms.


Sept.15'th Hubbards------------------A major boost to culture and tourism is in the works for the local area as the acquisition of a site for The Hooked Rug Museum of North America was announced by the Museum Society's key officers and directors at a press conference in Hubbards.
It has been six years of dedicated and hard work by the group. The idea originated with Hugh and Suzanne Conrod and snowballed into a world class project. Ironically the world appears more enthusiastic about it then most local folks do. Most of the financial support so far has come privately with very little financial or moral support form any level of Government. The Municipality of Chester did contribute $3000 for a business plan study. Chester could have had the Museum here but all possibilities were exhausted due to site conditions and size limitations.There was a possibility that the Museum would be much further away from the local area as sites through out Nova Scotia,Canada,the U.S. and the world would have welcomed such a facility.

It is not often a group of people can realize a dream of this scale and nature in such a relatively short time. Six years ago if you spoke with Hugh it seemed as though it may take forever or not even happen. Now it only seems like yesterday that the plan was started and all the hard work has paid off. There is still a lot of fund raising work to be done with a $500,000 campaign about to begin to carry out renovations and improvements to the site. If all goes as planned the facility is anticipated to open in the Summer of 2010.
Watch for more news about this wonderful project as it moves further along.