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Author: Torie Levesque
Countdown to Reopening, News, Staff Happenings, Uncategorized
We’re Hiring!
The Maine State Museum Education Division is hiring for a full-time Museum Education Program Specialist II. The Maine State Museum, located in Maine’s capital city of Augusta, serves as a vital cultural resource for students, scholars, lifelong learners, and anyone curious about the state’s past, present, and future. The Maine State Museum has roots […]
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Countdown to Reopening, Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens
Emeline Rose: The Life of a Maine Nurse, in Her Own Words
Celebrating Women’s History Month often means seeking out individuals who were not recognized in their time – the countless women who did great work without great recognition. Emeline Rose’s life will be celebrated in the upcoming exhibit Beyond the Postcard: Stories of the Maine Experience. Visit the museum after it reopens on October 24, 2026 […]
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Countdown to Reopening, News, Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens, Staff Happenings
EgNo 3654 Makes a Dramatic Entrance
The museum’s display of whale skeletal remains took on dramatic new dimensions in November this year with the installation of jawbones and a flipper from a North Atlantic right whale. The selective representation of EgNo 3654’s bones is meant to add a new dimension to the whale gallery. EgNo 3654’s jawbones create a dramatic passthrough […]
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Countdown to Reopening, Staff Happenings
Fall Event Photos
See photos from the Maine State Museum’s fall 2025 events.
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News, Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens
This Month We Remember
This October marks two years since the Lewiston mass shooting, which claimed 18 lives. In response to the tragedy, one artist and teacher from Lewiston, Ellen Hodgkin, chose to use her art to aid in her healing process and raise awareness about gun violence.
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Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens, Videos
Dan DenDanto and the Maine State Museum’s Whale Exhibit
On October 24, 2024, the Friends of the Maine State Museum welcomed Dan DenDanto of Allied Whale as the featured speaker for their annual meeting. Dan walked the audience through the work he has been doing to prepare two whale skeletons, an adult female humpback (known as Vector to the scientists that tracked her) and […]
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Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens, Uncategorized
Samantha Smith: America’s Youngest Ambassador
Samantha was the girl from Manchester, Maine, who, in 1982, as a ten-year-old, wrote to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, questioning his commitment to world peace.
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Samantha Smith Featured in International Exhibit
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. Samantha was the girl from Manchester, Maine who, as a ten-year old in 1982, wrote to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, questioning his commitment to world peace. Shortly after […]
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Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens, Staff Happenings, Videos
Mystery Tusk: Searching for Elephants in the Maine Woods
Gary Hoyle, author and former Natural History Curator at the Maine State Museum, discussed his book, Mystery Tusk: Searching for Elephants in the Maine Woods, at the Friends of the Maine State Museum annual meeting on October 19, 2023. His illustrated talk described one of his great achievements for the museum: the 1993 excavation of […]
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News, Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens, Staff Happenings
Great Coat, Great Discoveries
Members of the public frequently contact museum staff with inquiries about items in the collection. Often, the resulting research leads to the discovery of new, exciting information. This is just what happened last spring when an individual contacted museum curator Angela Goebel-Bain to ask about measurements of a Civil War great coat that was donated […]
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