Museums

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.
• Aroostook County Museums
  Included are museums dedicated to farming, science, natural history, logging, culture, art, and local history.
• 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.
• 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

• Children's Discovery Museum
  Augusta.
• Children's Museum 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)
• House Museums operated by the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities
• Maine Military Historical Society Museum
• New England Museum of Telephony - Ellsworth.
• Northern Maine Museum of Science
• Northern Timber Cruisers Snowmobile Museum
  Millinocket. View snowmobiles from the 1960s and a 1943 Toboggan.
• Nylander Museum
  Caribou. Natural history.
• 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.
• Shore Village Lighthouse Museum
  Rockland. A unique collection of historic artifacts of the United States Coast Guard and the Lighthouse Service.