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This list of museums in Maine is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Maine Historical Society: Maine Historical Society: November 17, 1980 : 485 Congress St. The Society's 1907 Library Building, located next to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House. 51: Maine Publicity Bureau Building: Maine Publicity Bureau Building: January 26, 1990
The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is a historic house and museum in Portland, Maine, United States. It is located at 489 Congress Street and is operated by the Maine Historical Society. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and administratively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The house is open daily to ...
The Amelia Island Museum of History is located at 233 South Third Street, Fernandina Beach, Florida. It houses exhibits focusing on the history of Nassau County, Florida and is situated inside the old Nassau county jail. [1] The idea of the museum was first put forward in 1975 by the Duncan Lamont Clinch (DLC) Historical Society.
The research library at the Maine Historical Society is named for John Marshall Brown and his wife Alida (Carroll) Brown. The current library building was built in 1907 (replacing the Morton Block), [3] designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, nephew of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Arts District is a section of downtown Portland, Maine’s designated in 1995 as to promote the cultural community and creative economy of the city. [1] It covers a large part of upper Congress Street towards the West End and spans Congress Street toward the East ending at Portland City Hall and its Merrill Auditorium concert hall. [2] [3]
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. [ 4 ] The Greater Portland metropolitan area has a population of approximately 550,000 people.