Maine's museums are fun for kids AND parents. Maine has a wide range of museums to enrich your Maine vacation experience. If you are driving through southern Maine on your way to the New England Outdoor Center, you can visit the Children's Museum of Maine in Portland or the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. In Northern Maine, with seven major interactive exhibit areas on three floors, the Maine Discovery Museum in downtown Bangor is the largest children's museum north of Boston. The Colby College Museum of Art has an outstanding permanent collection of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American art, as well as an active temporary exhibition program. Admission, gallery talks, and lectures are free of charge and if you are joining us from points south of us in New England you pass right by Colby on your way to either resort base.
The Patten Lumbermen's Museum is a wonderful place for kids and adults to experience the logging history and heritage of Maine via a number of unique logging exhibits that include a Lombard Steam hauler, vintage chainsaws, logging sleds, an extensive collection of the tools used by the carpenters, coopers, and millwrights, and antique photographs documenting the visual history of Maine logging. Other places of interest in the area include the Fairfield Historical Society History House (a Victorian House containing restored painted and stenciled ceilings and borders), the Boomhouse at the confluence of the West Branch of the Penobscot and Ambejejus Lake, the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor, which displays just about every mode of transportation, from baby carriages to locomotives, and Nowetah's American Indian Museum and Gift Store.
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