museums

Published
February 6, 2023

Lewiston museum takes new name, sets sights on new funding goal, location

The Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor should open in the former Camden Yarns mill site during 2025, museum officials said.
Published
June 5, 2022

Long before Bean Boots, Mainers were on the forefront of fashion

Maine Historical Society has three exhibits that merge history and fashion, including 'Northern Threads,' which features Maine clothes from the society's collection spanning 200 years.
Published
February 6, 2022

Of Black History month and their work, Black and brown artists say, ‘it’s complicated’

The annual tribute is a double-edged sword. Maine artists wrestle with whether it's a celebration or maybe a sidelining.
Published
September 19, 2021

How the International Vinegar Museum put a South Dakota town on the map

Roslyn needed a tourist attraction, and now there's a festival, a vinegar queen and endless varieties of sour surprises to sample.
Published
September 10, 2021

Chris Newell resigns after 18 months as Abbe Museum director

The first tribal member to lead the museum of Wabanaki art, history and culture cites personal reasons and returns to his family and consulting work in Connecticut.
Published
August 9, 2021

Augusta’s First Amendment Museum gets grant funds for exhibition design

Exhibitions are expected to highlight the freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Published
June 1, 2021

Children’s museum poised to open with mix of sparkling new, old favorites

Working through a pandemic year of preparations, the new Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine opens June 24 at Thompson's Point.
Published
September 21, 2020

Children’s museum receives $500,000 gift, stays course for spring opening

The donation from Peter and Paula Lunder leaves less than $1 million of the $14 million needed to build the 30,000-square-foot Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine on Thompson's Point in Portland.
Published
July 6, 2020

Miss traveling? Visit these transportation museums instead

Take a day trip to explore exhibits on boats, trains and automobiles, from Kennebunkport to Seal Cove.
Published
June 18, 2020

Chief curator leaving Portland Museum of Art

Jessica May, who joined the museum in 2012, will be replaced by Shalini Le Gall.