After a rocky start, a museum and tourist attraction in Bethel will unlock its doors to the public Friday for the third time in 16 months.
The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum is scheduled to welcome visitors, again, tomorrow at 10 a.m. The museum houses 19 interactive exhibits and some 46,000 gems, mineral specimens and even meteorites, including the five largest chunks of the moon on Earth.
Plans began over a decade ago for the museum, but it first opened in December 2019 and quickly grabbed media attention. The Boston Globe called the museum “astounding,” the New York Times said it was “world-class,” and the Wall Street Journal described the MMGM as “a museum that rocks.”