By Lucy | Published:
April 17, 2013
More than 40 artists ages 5 to 17 from as far away as Caribou and Limestone submitted work for the 2013 Show and Tell Gallery, a collection of work by youth on the autism spectrum. Each April since 2009, the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine has collected art work by young people with autism [...]
By Lucy | Published:
January 2, 2013
On Friday, January 4, we’re celebrating children everywhere with a FREE admission day and evening (10am-8pm). To celebrate children and bring joy to the community, we’re filling the Museum & Theatre music, art, stories and more, all free and open to the public. Events begin at 10am and continue through First Friday evening. Scheduled events [...]
By Lucy | Published:
December 26, 2012
In the wake of the a tragedy like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary, we all feel a little helpless. We want to do something, but there isn’t anything that can erase what happened or even ease the pain of those who are suffering. Yet we want to find some way to make things better [...]
By Chris S. | Published:
October 25, 2012
Last April, I received a large manila envelope from Skillin Elementary School. Inside I found a stack of handwritten letters from every student in Diana Violette’s second grade classroom asking me to build a live penguin exhibit here at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. Each letter offered a persuasive argument for the exhibit, [...]
By Kelsey | Published:
October 8, 2012
Hi! my name is Kelsey Cyr and I’m so excited to be an Art Education Intern here at the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine this fall! I have a BA in art history and went to school at SUNY Purchase in New York. I have been an education intern at numerous art museums, but [...]
By Lucy | Published:
June 20, 2012
The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine received the MetLife Foundation Promising Practice Award and a $10,000 grant in recognition of the Museum & Theatre’s innovative cultural policies. The award was presented on Thursday, May 10 at Interactivity 2012, the Association of Children’s Museums’ international conference, held this year in Portland, Oregon. The Museum & [...]
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We’re in the home stretch of exhibit construction for Child Inventor Service, an exhibit that explores engineering through the eyes of Sandy, a young problem-solver, and her clubhouse full of exhibits and inventions. This is our first all-new, permanent exhibit since we opened We Are Maine in 2006, and we couldn’t be more proud! All of our [...]
By Lucy | Published:
May 8, 2012
Saturday, May 19 is the second annual Maine Member Day. Nine museums throughout the state (including this one) will be offering free reciprocal admission all day. If you’re a member of any participating museum, everyone included in your membership will be admitted for FREE to any other participating museum! I’ve listed all the participating museums and [...]
By Lucia | Published:
July 27, 2011
Every weekend during the school year, and most days in the summer, we are joined by high school students who want to teach science. Known as “Youth Rangers,” these high school students are a variety of ages and backgrounds, but all have a common interest: teaching science to children. One of our Youth Rangers loves [...]
By Lucy | Published:
June 7, 2011
As my friends and family can attest, I’m a bit nuts about museums. Day trips and vacations are never complete without discovering a new museum or two. One of the things I love about working in public relations here at the Museum & Theatre is giving tours – when I guide someone through our exhibits, I find that [...]