Conservation specialist Teresa Myers ties guns onto posts on Friday as a new exhibit is put together at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The “Inventors and Sportsmen: Maine Gunsmiths in the 1800s” exhibit opens on Saturday.

Conservation specialist Teresa Myers ties guns onto posts on Friday as a new exhibit is put together at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The “Inventors and Sportsmen: Maine Gunsmiths in the 1800s” exhibit opens on Saturday.

Before the top of a glass display box is put on, conservation specialist Teresa Myers checks for dust as Colin Neal, of Portland Glass, cleans it on Friday as a new exhibit is put together at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.

Curator Laurie LaBar, left, and exhibit preparator Ryan Walker bump fists to celebrate after they and two other colleagues lifted a glass cover up and over the guns and birds and onto a display case on Wednesday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The “Inventors and Sportsmen: Maine Gunsmiths in the 1800s” exhibit opens on Saturday.

Exhibit preparator Ryan Walker, left, and designer Bruce Buttfield put up a large print of shooters duck hunting from a canoe in a display case on Wednesday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.

An inlaid silver hunting scene is seen on the top of a double barrel shotgun/rifle combination gun at the new exhibit at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.

Mike Delisle, of Portland Glass, is reflected in one display case as he and a colleague build another on Friday as a new exhibit is put together at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.