Earlier this year, it looked like the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum, tucked under the drawbridge at East Indiantown Road and U.S. 1 in Jupiter, might have to move its collection of movie memorabilia, awards, photographs and genuine artifacts like the canoe from Deliverance and Trigger’s saddle.

But for the moment, Reynolds says, the canoe is staying put. ‘That’s good, so we aren’t caught out in the rain in a tent somewhere,’ he says.

There had been plans to demolish the building, a former bank where the museum resides, and to build a complex including a hotel and marina on the site, where the museum might eventually wind up.

But for the moment, Reynolds says it doesn’t look like there’d be any movement on such a project until at least August 2010.

Wherever the museum might wind up, Reynolds thinks it’s going to stay in Jupiter. There had been other possibilities, like an offer from Kentucky (‘That would be a really long drive for me’) and from Lake Worth, which is in process of staging its arts-based Cultural Renaissance Project.

BURT REYNOLDS AND FRIENDS MUSEUM: Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday-Sunday. (561) 743-9955