The building the Bremerton Naval Museum has called home for the past 16 years is set to be torn down in September to make way for the new downtown Bremerton conference center project. In exchange for the land near the Bremerton Transportation Center, which will become a park, the city has agreed to move the museum.

The new home for the 8,000+ artifacts will be a now-empty corner of Amy Burnett’s gallery, on Fourth Street and Pacific Avenue. The move is set for sometime in mid-June.

The museum will be located in the gallery for about two years, then move to its permanent home, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s historic Building 50, which now contains offices and classrooms.

The museum currently occupies 6,000 square feet in the Enetai Building on Washington Avenue. The lease with Burnett includes 1,200 square feet including restrooms and offices upstairs, 3,000 square feet on the main floor and 3,500 square feet of basement storage space.

Burnett will receive a reported $1,500 a month in rent, the same amount the museum is paying Kitsap Transit, owner of the Enetai building.

In the meanwhile, the city is busy trying to obtain grants for the $900,000 needed to renovate the historic wooden Building 50.