Amid thousands of cardboard boxes yet to be unpacked Friday, Longmont Museum Curator of History Erik Mason was drawn to the turkey egg incubator, the largest item inside the newly opened, 15,000-square-foot storage facility for the collection.
The incubator from the Longmont Foods plant that closed in 2011 was the last of the 17,000 artifacts to be moved last month into the new museum storage facility in east Longmont on County Road 5, south off of Colo. 119.
“It has all of these racks, they all held a turkey egg. There’s a mechanism that kind of rocks it so that it mimics being in a nest,” Mason said.
When movers deposited the massive device near the entrance of the new storage warehouse, Mason said it was a celebratory moment for his staff, who had waited five years for the collection’s move to a permanent home.
“That was the day I brought in doughnuts, the next week was when we went out to lunch to celebrate that we had completed that first move and we were out of the other space,” Mason said.
In the last several weeks, the museum’s entire collection was moved from a temporary storage area on Left Hand Circle, to where it was taken in 2012 when it was forced out of the building now occupied by Cheese Importers on Main Street.
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