Saturday, May 14 is the first ever Maine Member Day. Twelve 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! Margaret Hoffman at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens came [...]
Several months ago, an artist named David K. Ross approached me to ask about connecting the Camera Obscura on our third floor – the optical device that projects a 360-degree view of Portland into aroom with no windows – to the Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. Mr. Ross had been invited [...]
A few months back, one of our friends at TD Bank contacted me to brainstorm ideas for celebrating their ongoing support of the Toddler Park and early childhood programming through the TD Charitable Foundation. They wanted an event that would open up the Toddler Park and the whole Museum to children and families who could [...]