Rough Point’s oceanfront location creates dramatic ocean views, but this also comes with some challenges. Saltwater spray, high winds, driving rain, and increasing storms—accelerated by climate change—all have a significant impact. This exhibit will place the challenges of caring for a historic, coastal building and surrounding landscape in context with broader national and global events—including research and messaging on global warming, energy crises, and conversations about historic preservation.
The exhibit also features an interactive weather station, where visitors can observe wind speed, direction, and weather conditions in real time, then connect their observations to how storms, salt spray, and rain affect historic coastal buildings. Monitor Rough Point weather here.
Keeping Rough Point Above Water is part of a series of programming celebrating 10 years of Keeping History Above Water, NRF’s initiative advocating for resiliency in the wake of climate change. Learn more about Keeping History Above Water.
Included in admission to Rough Point Museum. Plan your visit
This program is supported in part by 
and 
