The Langley Whale Center is packing up and moving on.

Its move, however, won’t be a long haul. The whale museum, run by Orca Network with support from the Langley Main Street Association and the City of Langley, is moving into a new space just next door from its current place on the corner of Anthes Avenue and Second Street.

Volunteers will help move the displays and merchandise down the block Oct. 10-11.

A grand re-opening is planned for November, according to a news release from Orca Network. The new location is a larger space for more events such as classes, author discussions and presentations, movies and expansion of the Youth Activity Program. A larger gift shop is also planned to offset operating costs.

A new, traveling exhibit titled “Whales in Our Midst” from the Bainbridge Historical Society and Center for Whale Research will be featured starting Oct. 15 in the new location.

As a free museum, it operates on donations of money and volunteer time, merchandise sales and a membership program.

Orca Network co-founders Susan Berta and Howard Garrett thanked Paul Samuelson, who owns the building where the museum is currently located, along with the Port of South Whidbey, the City of Langley, Langley Main Street Association and whale center Manager Wendy Sines.

Opened in March 2014, the Langley Whale Center was designed to be a free museum about marine mammals in Puget Sound.

For more information, visit www.orcanetwork.org, facebook.com/LangleyWhaleCenter, or contact Sines at langleywhalecenter@whidbey.com or 360-221-7505.