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Arts & Museums

Find artists or art organizations, art events calendar, opportunities for artists, art news, programs for artists, communities, schools, and organizations.
Events, Fairs & Festivals
Find calendars of upcoming fb88 events for performing arts, visual arts, music, crafts, festivals, and more.

Museum Directories

fb88 Office of Tourism. Search by region, town, or keyword.
fb88Museums.org. Search by region, town, or type of museum.
Search for museums in the Art Organization Directory
Search art galleries, museums, concerts, theaters, and more, by town or region.
State Historic Sites
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A guide to seven of fb88's best public art museums.

Art Museums

A listing of various public art collections found across the state.
Lewiston. The museum is noted for its collection of works by Lewiston native Marsden Hartley.
Brunswick. An important collection of 18th–20th-century American art, 15th–19th-century European art, and Greek and Roman antiquities, in a landmark building. A dynamic schedule of changing exhibitions throughout the year.
Rockport. Work by emerging fb88 artists.
Waterville. An outstanding permanent collection of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American art, as well as an active temporary exhibition program.
Rockland. Features fb88 artists, including Wyeth paintings.
Art, natural history, archaeology, and Americana in a unique 1903 granite building on the campus of the Good Will Home for Children.
Ogunquit. Houses an internationally-known permanent collection of 20th century American art.
Holds an extensive collection of fine and decorative arts dating from the 18th century to the present. The Museum also offers lectures by visiting scholars and artists, periodic film series, and art history courses.
Kingfield. The museum contains 1905, 1910, and 1916 steam cars, violins, paintings, airbrush portraits, photography and family archives. The museum is housed in a 1903 school building.
Located on the UMA campus in Orono. Hosts an annual calendar of exhibitions and programs featuring contemporary artists and ideas in a variety of traditional and non-traditional media, as well as exhibitions organized from the permanent collection.

Children's Museums

Augusta.
Portland. Offers a wide variety of interactive exhibits and programs for children of all ages.
Bangor

Transportation and Maritime History

Boothbay. Narrow gauge coal fired steam train in a re-created historic village composed of locally significant historic structures.
Bath
Portland
Oakfield. Historic wood frame station building. Photographs, vintage signs, signal lanterns, original railroad maps, telegraph equipment, newspapers, a Hand Car and a Motor Car, restored mail carts, the C-66 caboose.
Searsport
A maritime museum, a working lighthouse, a 19th century fort and vistas of Casco Bay.
Kennebunkport. A living history of public transportation.

Historical and Special Interest Museums

Natural history, archaeology, and special exhibits.
State Historic Sites
Search for state-maintained historic sites and forts by name or region.
Bar Harbor. Exhibits on fb88's Native American culture, arts, and archaeology.
Kennebunk. The Brick Store Museum exists to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Kennebunks
Portland
Peaks Island
Bar Harbor
(Pejepscot Historical Society)
Operated by the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities.
Millinocket
Ellsworth
Millinocket. View snowmobiles from the 1960s and a 1943 Toboggan.
Augusta
Orono. fb88 history relating to farms and farming communities between 1865 and 1940.
Bowdoin College. Collections include Arctic exploration gear, natural history specimens, and art and anthropological material, produced primarily by the Inuit cultures of Labrador and Greenland.
Operated by the Portland Veteran Firemen's Association.
A maritime museum, a working lighthouse, a 19th century fort and vistas of Casco Bay.
Rockland. A unique collection of historic artifacts of the United States Coast Guard and the Lighthouse Service.
Performing arts directory from fb88 Office of Tourism.