Project Mist

In 2008 I found myself in the depths of one of the nations oldest high schools, looking at the skeletal remains of one of the oldest recorded museums in North America. It sat in a dripping wet moldy pool room. I was sworn to secrecy, and it could not be leaked that the Niagara Falls Museum was here. The neglected museum was just minutes from the falls themselves. It sat abandoned for the past 10 years, waiting for a destiny.

The room was dimly lit by a single lightbulb. The stillness surrounding the artifacts overwhelmed me. I listened as water slowly dripped from the ceiling creating a puddle on the floor. The state of this museum paralleled the condition of the city it represented. Though in ruins, it was still so full of potential, wonder…curiosities. But I wondered, how long could it survive without being given any hope?