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Arts & Museums
- Maine Arts Commission
- 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 Maine events for performing arts, visual arts, music, crafts, festivals, and more.
Museum Directories
- Search Maine Museums
- Maine Office of Tourism. Search by region, town, or keyword.
- Search Maine Museums & Archives
- MaineMuseums.org. Search by region, town, or type of museum.
- Maine Arts Commission
- Search for museums in the Art Organization Directory
- Maine Tourism Association Arts & History Directory
- Search art galleries, museums, concerts, theaters, and more, by town or region.
- State Historic Sites
- Search for state-maintained historic sites and forts by name or region.
- Maine Art Museum Trail
- A guide to seven of Maine's best public art museums.
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.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Children's Discovery Museum
- Augusta.
- Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine
- Portland. Offers a wide variety of interactive exhibits and programs for children of all ages.
- Maine Discovery Museum
- Bangor
Transportation and Maritime History
- Boothbay Railway Village
- Boothbay. Narrow gauge coal fired steam train in a re-created historic village composed of locally significant historic structures.
- Maine Maritime Museum
- Bath
- Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum
- Portland
- Oakfield Railroad Museum
- 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.
- Owl's Head Transportation Museum
- Penobscot Marine Museum
- Searsport
- Portland Harbor Museum
- A maritime museum, a working lighthouse, a 19th century fort and vistas of Casco Bay.
- Seal Cove Auto Museum
- Seashore Trolley Museum
- Kennebunkport. A living history of public transportation.
- Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington (WWF) Railway Museum
Historical and Special Interest Museums
- Maine State Museum
- Natural history, archaeology, and special exhibits.
- State Historic Sites
- Search for state-maintained historic sites and forts by name or region.
- Abbe Museum
- Bar Harbor. Exhibits on Maine's Native American culture, arts, and archaeology.
- Brick Store Museum
- Kennebunk. The Brick Store Museum exists to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Kennebunks
- Center for Maine History
- Portland
- Fifth Maine Regiment Museum
- Peaks Island
- George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History
- Bar Harbor
- History Museums in Brunswick (Pejepscot Historical Society)
- Operated by the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities.
- Maine Military Historical Society Museum
- Millinocket Historical Society Museum
- Millinocket
- New England Museum of Telephony
- Ellsworth
- Northern Timber Cruisers Snowmobile Museum
- Millinocket. View snowmobiles from the 1960s and a 1943 Toboggan.
- Old Fort Western
- Augusta
- Page Farm and Home Museum
- Orono. Maine history relating to farms and farming communities between 1865 and 1940.
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
- 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.
- Portland Fire Museum
- Operated by the Portland Veteran Firemen's Association.
- Portland Harbor Museum
- A maritime museum, a working lighthouse, a 19th century fort and vistas of Casco Bay.
- Maine Lighthouse Museum
- Rockland. A unique collection of historic artifacts of the United States Coast Guard and the Lighthouse Service.
- Performing Arts
- Performing arts directory from Maine Office of Tourism.