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.

An inlaid silver hunting scene is shown on the top of a double barrel shotgun/rifle combination gun.

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 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 one for the new exhibit.

Myers secures some of the guns in the display.

Walker, left, and designer Bruce Buttfield put up a large print of shooters duck hunting from a canoe.

Before the top of a glass display box is put on, Myers checks for dust as Colin Neal of Portland Glass cleans it.