We are a provincial museum, so we might be a little bit different from most of the museums you'll be having dialogues with in terms of how we access funding. I can say that every year we have been fortunate to bring in folks through the Young Canada Works program. That has been a huge benefit to us. It's been a great way for us to try out a new type of program or to just bring in new people in general. We've had in the last several years at least two different ones, often bringing in both official languages. It's been really wonderful to have somebody come in and just focus on developing an experience for people whose first language is French. In the last couple of years we've also brought in somebody to work on some of our cultural programming in terms of artistic and musical programs and activities. These are things we wouldn't be able to do if we didn't have Young Canada Works.
In the past we have had, through partnerships, some funding to develop some exhibits, but it's been a while since we've done that. ACOA helped us, through the foundation I mentioned earlier, to bring funds together for the travelling exhibit on the MS St. Louis, which is soon to open at the Canadian War Museum.
Moving ahead, I think that the partnership and collaboration will probably be a really strategic way forward, and not just for us but for all Canadian museums. We all have different challenges. I think the storage issue is a challenge for museums probably coast to coast. It certainly is a challenge for us. Unique to maritime museums are vessels in the water. Those provide very unique challenges. Our CSS Acadia is 104 years old. It's a national historic site, and it has no funding coming with it other than what we have. That is a real challenge. We have a partner on the waterfront with the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust's HMCS Sackville. They come down seasonally beside us. I know that they come to us and want to discuss possibilities in terms of the needs they have for their vessel in the water and the needs we have for our vessel in the water. I think it would be great down the road if there were some type of forum where we could talk to national partners, and other partners in the industry, to address unique projects like that.
I'll end it there.