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New Signs Serve Up a “Happy Hit of Flavoring”
The Maine State Museum recently acquired two rare Moxie advertising signs. This infamous Maine soft drink has acquired a cult following over the last 139 years.
Who is the Man with the Eyepatch?
National media celebrated the C. F. Hathaway Company as America’s oldest and last major shirt manufacturer when it closed its Waterville factory in 2002. Over twenty years later, the Maine State Museum received a donation of dozens of Hathaway shirts and the company archives.
Samantha Smith Featured in International Exhibition
The Maine State Museum has recently joined with museums from around the world to bring a new exhibition – The Berlin Wall: A World Divided – to international audiences.
The exhibition was organized by a Spanish company, Musealia, in partnership with the Berlin Wall Foundation. The Maine State Museum is lending several items from its Samantha Smith collection to be displayed in a 26,000 square foot space in the exhibition’s first venue in Madrid, Spain.
Museum Connections
Thematic explorations of Maine stories and history from the Friends of the Maine State Museum.