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Specializing in all International Aids To Navigation, The United States Light House Service and the United States Life Saving Service. We are privately funded and open to the public. The Maritime Exchange Museum is dedicated to acquiring, restoring, and conserving artifacts related to the USLHS and the USLSS and interpreting them for public education and display. We also encourage and facilitate trading (exchanging) artifacts between collectors and Maritime Museums who may have redundant inventory. Thus we buy, sell, and trade these duplicate artifacts between our Museum and others. The goal is not only to balance out redundancy in our Museum but for others to be better able to display and interpret our important Maritime history to our respective visitors by having a more complete display and variety of artifacts. We encourage and promote the preservation of Lighthouses and Lighthouse history, and participate in efforts for fundraising and awareness for Lighthouse and Life Saving Service heritage. The Maritime Exchange Museum is heavily involved in Fresnel Lens rebuilding and restoration. We have our own Lens shop and have full time staff restoring and preserving antique Lighthouse Fresnel Lenses, classic acetylene gas buoy lights, and related Lighthouse and Life Saving Service artifacts. We offer free consultation for Fresnel Lens conservation, repair and restoration. In scenarios where there is a Lighthouse Lens that has been automated with a modern replacement and the original Fresnel Lens is no longer needed, generally in inaccessible locations where restoration and historic preservation is not practical nor visitation by the public possible, we offer to purchase or trade for the Lens and send our staff to professionally remove it. We then restore the lens and make it part of an interpretive public display in the Museum. The history and significance of the Lens is recorded and explained in the display. We travel worldwide to recover Lighthouse Lenses that are decommissioned and no longer needed as an operational Aids to Navigation.