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Current Exhibits
Museum
Dressing Up, Fitting In, Standing Out: Adornment & Identity in Maine (through May 27, 2012)
Lecture Hall Gallery
Downtown: Portland, Circa 1912 (through June 30, 2012)
Showcase Gallery
Student art work from our Local History/Local Schools program
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Spring Hours
Museum & Museum Store: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Starting May 6th, Sundays 12-5pm.
Brown Library: Tues-Sat 10am-4pm
The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is open for tours beginning on May 1.
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What in the World?
What-in-the-WORLD?-Wednesday is our popular weekly guess-the-artifact contest on Facebook. Above is the image we'll be posting this Wednesday morning. If you're on Facebook, you can post your guess on our page. If not, feel free to email your guess to us anytime before 4pm on Wednesday. We'll post the answer--along with several of the most creative guesses--in a blog post late Wednesday afternoon.
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Annual Fund
The MHS e-Connection provides a window into all that MHS does--preserving historic treasures, offering unique exhibits, presenting important educational programming, providing a community-based digital museum experience, and maintaining the Longfellow House and Garden. We cannot do it without you!
Please take this moment to support the MHS Annual Fund with an online gift.
Thank you in advance!
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Digital History from
Maine Memory Network
Maine Egg Producers, Scarborough, ca. 1960
MMN Item #31430 From the 1940s to 1970s, the poultry industry was an important part of Maine's economy. Belfast was known as the "Broiler Capitol of the World," and major farms in various parts of the state raised chickens for meat or to produce eggs. The plant shown in this photograph, state of the art when it opened in 1956, collected, processed, and packaged eggs from area poultry houses. To learn more about this plant and what is there today, click here. For a great overview of the rise and fall of Maine's poultry industry, read this 2010 article, "The Last of the Chicken Farmers," from the Bangor Daily News. |
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Don't Miss
MHS Annual Gala: The Mad Hatter Affair
May 5, 2012, 5-11pm
The Woodlands, Falmouth
 Please join us for one of the most fun and exciting events of the year, and an important MHS fundraiser. The festive evening includes a reception and dinner, a hat parade, a live broadcast of the Kentucky Derby, an amazing auction, and dancing with the Tony Boffa Band. This year's event includes a special send-off for Richard D'Abate, who is retiring after 16 years as the MHS Executive Director. View the auction items online. For more information, click here. Please call (207/774-1822 x206) or email Elizabeth Nash to purchase dinner tickets, or for information about becoming a Patron or Corporate Sponsor. |
MHS News
New Photography Show to Open this Week
Downtown Portland, Circa 1912
Join us this Friday, April 6 from 5-8pm for the opening of our newest photography show in the Shettleworth Lecture Hall. The photographs capture businesses, buildings, and the hustle and bustle of Congress Street 100 years ago. This opening is part of Portland's First Friday Art Walk. |
April Programs
This Week
Tuesday, April 3, 12pm
Perspectives on Maine History: Maine at Work, 1860-1900 
Speakers: Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. and William Bunting Shettleworth and Bunting will share selections from Maine Historic Preservation Commission's large collection of stereoviews, focusing on images of Mainers at work. Thursday, April 5, 7pm The Nature of Lost Things  Speaker:
Rosamond Purcell, photographer
Rosamond Purcell wrote Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things (2003) in order to understand how and why thirteen acres of scrap intermingled with antique machinery and historical ephemera had taken over the landscape. The answers came from William Buckminster, owner of this culturally over-charged place who, one day, in passing, mentioned that the only person he would like to have acquire the two-centuries-old brass foundry that he had found in a pile of hay would be MHS Director Richard D'Abate, who, based on a recent magazine article, "seems like a decent sort of fella." Join us to hear about the connections between Buckminster, Purcell, and MHS. Purcell is a reknowned photographer whose work was featured in a New York Times article just last week.
Also happening this month
Tuesday, April 10, 12pm
The Titanic: A Survivor's Story
Speaker: Dr. Karen Lemke, St. Joseph's College
Thursday, April 19, 7pm
The Civil War of 1812
Speaker: Dr. Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
Tuesday, April 24, 7pm
Gateways to Portland: Rebuilding Veterans Memorial and Martin's Point Bridges
A panel discussion presented in partnership with Greater Portland Landmarks
Visit us online for a full schedule of
programs and events.
Public programs supported by:
 
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Museum Store
Spring Training
Spring is in the air! What better way to get us ready for spring and baseball than this great new book on the legendary Ted Williams. A treat for all ages!
Available in our Portland store and at our online store. $16.99 plus tax & shipping when applicable.
Visit us at 489 Congress Street in Portland. Museum store winter hours are Monday through Saturday 10am-5pm.
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