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He remarked, “The Portland Museum is a regional museum in a region that is itself a museum, so I believe I had an obligation to connect the new building to the city and the region.” [7] To express the museum’s connection to Maine, Cobb used locally made materials common to Maine (water-struck brick, pine, and granite) as his chief design ...
Coelacanth at the Cryptozoology Museum. Coleman established a Cryptozoology Museum in 2003 in Portland, Maine. [3] [8] The first downtown location for the museum opened in November 2009, occupying the rear of The Green Hand Bookshop, a Portland general used bookshop specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and other forms of Gothic fiction. [9]
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]
The new location at 2 Columbus Circle, with more than 54,000 square feet (5,000 m 2), more than tripled the size of the museum's former space.It includes four floors of exhibition galleries for works by established and emerging artists; a 150-seat auditorium in which the museum plans to feature lectures, films, and performances; and a restaurant.
Portland Museum of Art: Portland: Cumberland: Southern Maine Coast: Art: American and European fine and decorative arts, and the L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries: Preble-Marr Historical Museum: Great Cranberry Island: Hancock: Down East: Local history: website, operated by the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society in the Cranberry House ...
The Portland Museum of Art in the Arts District of Portland. The project to integrate the three buildings began in the fall of 2000 and was completed in October 2002. The McLellan House and L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries have an emphasis on 19th-century American art, and the Payson Building houses European and American works from the 20th ...
Oct. 2—The Portland Museum of Art wants to create a "new cultural landmark" with a major expansion project. Historic preservationists say they'll be tearing down an existing one to do it. The ...
The McLellan-Sweat Mansion (or The McLellan House) is a historic house museum on High Street in Portland, Maine. It forms the rear component of the Portland Museum of Art complex. Built in 1800–01, the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as a well-preserved Federal style brick townhouse.