Description

The Center for Maine History Museum features both rotating and permanent galleries and exhibits that showcase the last five centuries of the state's past. The museum houses extensive collections from the Maine Historical Society (the oldest state society of its kind in the United States), including art, documents, and other historical artifacts. The collections comprise over 15,000 pieces that come from early settlers, Native American tribes, military, or other sources of Maine culture. Some popular exhibits from the past have included the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the mapping history of the state, and an exhibit on Victorian life at sea. In addition to exploring the museum, be sure to take a look around the Wadsworth-Longfellow house (the well-preserved abode of the famous American poet and his family), and the extensive research library.