Touch Tank contributors recently had the pleasure of accompanying the executive director of Touch Tanks for Kids, Mike Martin, and two of his children, Kyera and Madelyn, on a trip to the Children’s Discovery Museum located at 171 Capital Street in Augusta, Maine. The museum’s director Valencia Schubert invited Mike to join the museum’s board after she discovered to world’s finest teaching aquarium while searching for ways to improve the museum.

Valencia grew up in Boothbay, a coastal Maine community where she learned all about the wonderful sea creatures of a Northern Atlantic cold-water touch tank.  Valencia understood that providing children an opportunity to observe and occasionally interact with the creatures of the sea presents educational value and brings more children to the museum.

After two years of fund raising, the Children’s Discovery Museum Touch Tank Project got some needed support when the museum’s board of director decided to move locations from Water Street to 171 Capital Street.  The move created a lot of publicity because the board needed much help to successful move all the museum’s exhibits to the new, easily assessable Capitol Street location.

The publicity worked, the move was a success and as a result, a generous community member donated enough money when combined with the other donations and a Touch Tanks for Kids Grant to purchase a Marine Ecological Habitats’ aquarium for the museum’s visitor to enjoy.  We hope that you enjoy the tour, visit the Children’s Discovery Museum located at 171 Capitol Street in Augusta, Maine today, and tell Valencia that Touch-Tank sent you