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Art Museums & Galleries in Maine


 


Brunswick 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

The collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art range from the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world to artwork created in the first years of the 21st century. A small selection from the 14,500 objects in the collection is featured in this section of the website. The various collections including Decorative Arts, Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper are among the most comprehensive of any college museum in the country. The collections continue to grow through purchase, gift, and bequest.



  

Lewiston

Bates Museum of Art

The Bates College Museum of Art is a laboratory that provides an environment for broad audiences to explore and discover synergies created by the visual arts across the academic disciplines of a liberal arts education. The Museum works collaboratively with artists, students, faculty, and fellow museums throughout the region to create educational programming and original exhibitions that offer innovative and diverse scholarly explorations that commit us to expanding the traditional study of the history and practice of art, while addressing local and global issues.



  

Liberty

Davistown Museum
The Davistown Museum is a regional tool, art, and history museum with two physical locations in Maine and an extensive website. The Museum and the website provide detailed information on the history of ferrous metallurgy, edge tool manufacturing, the Wooden Age of maritime New England, and the Classic period of American toolmaking that accompanied the advent of the Industrial Revolution.




  

Orono

Hudson Museum at the University of Maine

Transformation is a central cultural theme in many of the objects featured in the Hudson Museum's collections.


University of Maine Museum of Art
The University of Maine Museum of Art enriches the cultural life of the citizens of Maine and University community through exhibitions, collections and innovative educational programming designed to promote an understanding of the visual arts with particular emphasis on the modern and contemporary. The Museum shares the mission of the University of Maine to advance research, teaching and educational outreach, and to serve as a center of aesthetic engagement for diverse audiences.




  

Portland

Portland Museum of Art 

As the largest and oldest art museum in the state of Maine, the Museum serves as a vital cultural resource for all who visit. The Museum's collection of more than 17,000 objects is housed in three historic and remarkable buildings showcasing three centuries of art and architecture. Whether this is your first visit or 131st, our changing exhibitions and permanent collection offer you a diverse selection of fine and decorative arts to view.




  

Rockland

Farnsworth Art Museum
Celebrating Maine’s Role in American Art, the Farnsworth Art Museum offers a nationally recognized collection of works from many of America's greatest artists. With 20,000 square feet of gallery space and over 10,000 works in the collection, there is always something new on view at the Farnsworth. The museum has the nation's second-largest collection of works by premier 20th-century sculptor Louise Nevelson.


  

Waterville

Colby College Museum of Art
Founded in 1959 and now comprising four wings, more than 6,000 works, and more than 28,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby College Museum of Art has built a significant permanent collection that specializes in American and contemporary art.  The Museum is part of the Bixler Art and Music Center, a building named in honor of President J. Seelye Bixler (1942-1960) in recognition of his visionary support for the arts at Colby.




  

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