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Museums

Museum Directories

Art Museums

  • Maine Art Museum Trail
    A listing of various public art collections found across the state.
  • Bates College Museum of Art
    Lewiston. The museum is noted for its collection of works by Lewiston native Marsden Hartley.
  • Center for Maine Contemporary Art
    Rockport. Work by emerging Maine artists.
  • Colby College Museum of Art
    Waterville. An outstanding permanent collection of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American art, as well as an active temporary exhibition program.
  • Davistown Museum
    Liberty. Art and sculpture as well as an archaeology of tools and registry of Maine toolmakers.
  • Farnsworth Art Museum
    Rockland. Features Maine artists, including Wyeth paintings.
  • L.C. Bates Museum
    Art, natural history, archaeology, and Americana in a unique 1903 granite building on the campus of the Good Will Home for Children.
  • Ogonquit Museum of American Art
    Ogunquit. Houses an internationally-known permanent collection of 20th century American art.
  • Portland Museum of 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.
  • Stanley Museum
    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.
  • University of Maine Museum of Art
    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

Transportation and Maritime History

Historical and Special Interest Museums