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MSM at Home

Enjoy the Maine State Museum at home! Explore a variety of guided activities for your family to enjoy at home, offering opportunities to learn and play with the Maine State Museum right from your living room.

Join us in a 1960s Living Room!

Take a video tour through the Maine State Museum’s 1960s living room and challenge friends and family to a photo game!

Children in 1960s living room exhibit
Postcard of loggers of the Penobscot River, Lincoln Maine

Check out the story of Maine logging, learn about food in a lumber camp, and find out how to read tree rings!

Learn how a bird vanished from Maine and the rest of the country, then make your own origami passenger pigeon out of paper!

Still from Youtube Making an Origami Passenger Pigeon
Crazy quilt made in 1890 by Mary Louise Orr of Bailey Island, Maine

Lazy Daisies, Silk Ribbons & Spider Webs:  Mary Louise Orr’s 1890 Crazy Quilt

Explore a crazy quilt with our discovery guide, make your own paper quilt, and use letters from Helen Keller to learn square handwriting!

Learn about the 17 year old Mainer who built his own full-sized glider in 1911, then try it out yourself with different paper airplane patterns!

The Basic Dart, paper glider instructions
weaving room

Learn about how wool goes from a sheep’s back to a piece of soft cloth! This activity includes videos and instructions for weaving at home.

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