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Aroostook County   The Maine Highlands   Downeast & Acadia   Kennebec & Moose River Valleys   Mid-Coast   Maine Lakes & Mountains

Greater Portland and Casco Bay   Southern Maine Coast   National Parks

Aroostook County  

Oakfield Railroad Museum - The Museum is dedicated to the early years of Railroad Transportation. Besides seeing the historic wood frame station building, you can be intrigued by hundreds of hotographs- some of which are over a century old. There are also vintage signs and advertising pieces, signal lanterns, original railroad maps, telegraph equipment, newspapers, a Hand Car and a Motor Car, restored mail carts and more.

Nylander Museum - A museum dedicated to Olof Nylander's work and the natural history of Maine.

The Maine Highlands  

Black Beards USA - Black Beards USA is a family fun park featuring a trout pond, where kids can feed and watch rainbow trout, remote-controlled pirate ships, mini golf, batting cages, go karts, games and much more.

Maine Center For The Arts - The Maine Center for the arts is host to a variety of performances, exhibitions and more.

The Bangor Symphony - The Bangor Symphony Orchestra is the oldest community orchestra in the United States providing continuous service. The orchestra's season runs from September through May. The Bangor Symphony offers Classical Concerts, Family Casual Concerts, The Nutcracker with the Robinson Ballet Co., a Pops Concert, the Maine High School Concerto Competition, and Special Events all season long.

Cole Land Transportation Museum - The Cole Land Transportation Museum displays over 200 vehicles that were used in the land transportation industry in Maine. Visit this exciting and child-friendly museum for a fun family outing.

Maine Discovery Museum - Filled with three floors of exciting interactive exhibits, and seven major exhibit areas, Maine Discovery Museum is the largest children's museum north of Boston.

Jordan Planetarium and Observatory - Visit Maine's first planetarium and enjoy an unhindered view of the universe! The planetarium, on the second floor of Wingate Hall on the University of Maine campus, sports a 20-foot solid dome suspended over 45 seats and a Spitz 373 projector that produces 1000, stars, clusters, planets, and the Milky way. It transforms the darkened dome into a starry firmament.

Downeast & Acadia  

Northeast Historic Film - Located in an old Alamo Theater, Northeast Historic Film offers fun and educational opportunities for families and students. Regular popular movie showings, silent films, and others.

Bar Harbor Ferry - The Bar Harbor Ferry provides spectacular views as you travel to Winter Harbor. You'll pass lighthouses, mountains, mansions, fishing villages, and lobstermen hauling their traps. Then explore scenic Winter Harbor, some of the most beautiful scenery in Maine.

Raye's Mustard Mill Museum - The mustard mill is a working museum and visitors are always welcome. Visit for an educational family experience, and go on a tour of the museum to see how mustard is made.

Abbe Museum - The Abbe Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding and appreciation of Maine Native American cultures, history and archaeology through exhibitions, educational programs and research.

Mount Desert Oceanarium/The Lobster Hatchery - A great place for families! Bring the kids to the Lobster Hatchery, where visitors can see mother lobsters, newborn lobsters, and then see them set free into their natural ocean habitat.

Bar Harbor Whale Watch - Educational and exciting boat trips during which visitors can see many different aquatic animals, including whales, seals, lobsters, puffins, and more.

Bar Harbor - Nestled on the east side of Mt. Desert Island, surrounded by Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park have a wide variety of offerings for visitors.

Kennebec & Moose River Valleys  

Maine State Museum - Experience Maine the way it was on a family trip to Maine State Museum where you can see what the earliest Maine people hunted, what they ate, how they made tools, and what they left behind. On four floors you can see animal habitats, a working water powered mill, early steam locomotive, and Maine products from ships to guns, from cars to glass.

Theater At Monmouth - The Shakespearean Theater of Maine produces professional productions of the classics, each spring summer and fall in historic Cumston Hall, a century-old Victorian Opera House which is on the National Register of Historic Buildings. 

Mid-Coast  

Boothbay Railway Village - The Boothbay Railway Village, located in Boothbay, Maine, is a non-profit organization that operates a narrow gauge coal fired steam train in a re-created historic village composed of locally significant historic structures. Additionally the museum exhibits one of the finest presentations of antique vehicles in New England.

Marine Resources Aquarium - The aquarium features extraordinary lobsters of all sizes and colors. Colorful marine life, including red sea anemones and purple sunstars, can be seen in the 'Downeast' tank. Visitors will be entertained by the behaviors of live northern shrimp and the appearance of bottom-dwelling fish. Also, experience the thrill of petting a live shark!

Carousel Music Theatre - A night at the Carousel Music Theatre is unique. Visitors can enjoy dinner while enjoying a unique show with all the songs you love, complete with costumes, dancing and superb acting.  196 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. (800) 757-5297.

Bay Chamber Concerts - Bay Chamber Concerts has been bringing fine music to Maine since 1961 and is committed to making quality music and music education experiences available for everyone in the mid-coast community.

School House Museum Lincolnville Historical Societ - The School House Museum of the Lincolnville Historical Society is located on the second floor of the 1892 building known as the Beach School. Class for all eight grades was held in this room until 1947. Come visit this historical site to see how education functioned in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Farnsworth Art Museum - The Farnsworth is one of the finest regional art museums in the country with a specialized collection focusing on Maine's role in American art. See the beautiful sculptures, water colors of the coast, and ink drawings.

Maine Lakes & Mountains

Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum - Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum displays the history and heritage of logging in the western Maine mountains. See the equipment, tools, and traditional arts such as painting, knitting, wood carving, and storytelling.

Norlands Living History Center - Norlands is a multifaceted, year-round museum offering in-depth experiences in 18th and 19th century rural life. There, the visitor is an active participant in daily and seasonal farming and housework, and becomes involved in the social, political and educational activities of the times.

Stanley Museum - The Museum commemorates and preserves the heritage of Stanley family genius. The famous "Stanley Steamer" automobile was invented by Francis Edgar Stanley and manufactured by him and his twin brother, usually referred to as the Stanley twins, F.E. and F.O. The sister, Chansonetta, is equally important for her photographs depicting rural turn-of-the-century American life.

Crabtree's Blueberries - Large, juicy blueberries hang in bunches ready for picking. Families can picnic on the grounds and even pick their own blueberries.

Celebration Barn - Celebration Barn has helped to nurture some of America's finest touring artists, dancers, mimes, jugglers, storytellers, (you name it!). Public performances are given throughout the summer, featuring faculty, students, and special guest artists.

Apple Acres Farm - Situated in the rolling foothills of the White Mountains, Apple Acres Farm is only a 45 minute drive from Portland, Maine and North Conway, New Hampshire. Activities include apple-picking, fresh apple cider, hay rides, and more.

Seacoast Fun/Snow Park - All-season recreational fun for everyone at the Seacoast Fun Park! In the summer, enjoy bumper boats, a driving range, miniature golf, go carts, a sling-shot trampoline, and the awesome Skymax. In the winter, there visitors can enjoy snow-tubing, and snow-boarding.

Bates College Museum of Art - The Bates College Museum of Art houses the College's permanent collection of internationally significant works of art and maintains an active schedule of exhibits.

Whistlestop Museum & Soda Fountain - The Whistlestop Museum features amazing antique mechanical music machines, classic vehicles, historic train memorabilia, telephones, stoves, toys and local history artifacts! See our renovated century-old building and ride the train!  150 Depot Street, Unity.  (207) 948-5707.

Greater Portland and Casco Bay  

Children's Museum of Maine - The Children's Museum of Maine offers a wide variety of interactive exhibits and programs for children of all ages.

Smiling Hill Farm - Smiling Hill is a working farm that is open to the public and has many fun activities, including an ice cream shop, petting zoo, and dairy store.

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse/Portland Harbor Muse - A maritime museum, a working lighthouse, a 19th century fort and vistas of Casco Bay all on one campus. The museum is located on the grounds of historic Fort Preble overlooking beautiful Casco Bay. Its permanent exhibit on 19th century wooden shipbuilding includes sections of the South Portland built clipper ship, Snow Squall.

Desert of Maine - Fifty acres of Maine desert, where you can walk through the multi-colored sand, 1783 Barn Museum, enjoy a narrated coach tour, take a walking tour, picnic and lots more

Southern Maine Coast  

Funtown/Splastown USA - Funtown is the home of Maine's only wooden roller coaster Excalibur, New England's longest and tallest log flume rife, and a phenomenal collection of kiddie rides.

Brick Store Museum - The Brick Store Museum is an art and history museum that has permanent and semi-permanent exhibitions focusing mainly on the southern part of Maine.

The Saco Museum - The Saco Museum's collection contains more than 10,000 artifacts. The museum is well known for its rich collection of paintings and portraits from the Saco River region, and the finest and largest collection of portraits by the renowned deaf artist John Brewster, Jr.

National Parks

Acadia National Park - Located on the coast of Maine, Acadia encompasses 47,633 acres of granite-domed mountains, woodlands, lakes and ponds, and ocean shoreline. Such diverse types of habitat make Acadia a haven for wildlife and plants.

Appalachian National Scenic Trail - The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,167-mile (3,488 km) footpath along the ridge crests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in north Georgia. The trail traverses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia.

Maine Acadian Culture - Maine Acadians share beliefs and experiences tying them to a river, the land, their families, and to their common religion, languages, and history. The land borders the St. John River, flowing between the United States and Canada, and extends away from the river to the "back settlements." Here people speak Valley French, a mixture that includes old French, Quebecois, and English terms — sometimes mixed within a sentence.

Saint Croix Island International Historic Site - The National Park Service preserves Saint Croix Island International Historic site as a monument to the beginning of the United States and Canada. In 1604, Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons, accompanied by Samuel Champlain and 77 other men, established a settlement on St. Croix Island. Preceding Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth(1620), Sieur de Mons' outpost was one of the earliest European settlements on the North Atlantic coast of North America.