Museums
Exhibition Opening
Starts: Jul 12 2012 - 3:00pm
Ends: Jul 12 2012 - 6:00pm
Seal Cove, ME 04674
The Seal Cove Auto Museum presents the exhibit "Bicycles that Paved the Way for Automobiles" with special guest Zip Zamarchi, of the Maine Wheelmen, who will share his early bicycles with the audience. Refreshments will follow the program. Call the Seal Cove Auto Museum for more information and directions
sealcoveautomuseum.org
The Early Architectural Drawings of Fred L. Savage
Mount Desert, ME 04660
The Mount Desert Island Historical Society is pleased to announce a major exhibit of original early architectural drawings and sketches of Fred L. Savage (1861 - 1924). Savage, a local architect, designed many of the iconic Shingle and Revival-style cottages in Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
mdihistory.org
Greetings From St. George: Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. Collection
St. George, ME 04860
The presentation "Greetings From St. George: Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. Collection" includes seventy-five to one hundred-year-old images of St. George, Port Clyde, Tenants Harbor, Martinsville, and Long Cove. A potluck supper will precede the presentation at 6:30 p.m.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
Greetings From Brooks: Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. Collection
Brooks, ME 04921
A slide talk featuring old photographs of Brooks, Maine, and nearby communities that illustrate the area's past, spur memories. and generate historical input from the audience. Consisting of tens of thousands of old photos of Maine and other New England states, the Eastern Illustrating Collection is the centerpiece of Penobscot Marine Museum's extensive photography archives. Eastern Illustrating was a Belfast-based postcard publisher that documented thousands small-town scenes during the first half of the twentieth century.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
Penobscot Marine Museum 2012 Season Opening Exhibits
Starts: May 25 2012 - 5:00am
Ends: May 25 2012 - 7:00am
Seasrsport, ME 04974
"Summer Folk: The Tourists of Penobscot Bay" is a campus-wide exhibit exploring the history of tourism from 1890 to 1960. And to commemorate of the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812, "The Art of the Sea Battle" features some of the finest marine art in the museum's collection.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
Greetings from Vassalboro, Maine
Starts: May 17 2012 - 7:00pm
Ends: May 17 2012 - 8:30pm
East Vassalboro, ME 04935
Photo archivist Kevin Johnson will tell the story of Eastern Illustrating & Publishing and show photos from the collection of Vassalboro and surrounding towns.
vassalboro.net/historical.html
Digging Deeper into the Eastern Illustrating Collection
Starts: Feb 9 2012 - 6:30pm
Ends: Feb 9 2012 - 7:45pm
Belfast, ME 04915
Penobscot Marine Museum presents historic farm photography from the Eastern Illustrating Collection. The Eastern Illustrating Collection contains more than a hundred thousand images taken by a Belfast postcard publisher. It includes town and country scenes throughout Maine and New England in the early twentieth century.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org/photo-collections/eip.html
Circus Exhibit at Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport, ME 04974
A free exhibit of circus models, art, photography, and memorabilia. At the heart of the exhibit is the Bex Bros. Circus, a complete circus scene comprised of thousands of scale models depicting every element of a traditional circus, including sideshows, clowns, trapeze artists, and animal acts. Also on display are circus posters, circus art by Maine artists Alan Fishman, Nancy Morgan-Barnes, and the late Waldo Peirce, and circus images from the museum's own collections of historic photography.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
Circus Exhibit at Penobscot Marine Museum
A free exhibit of circus models, art, photography, and memorabilia. At the heart of the exhibit is the Bex Bros. Circus, a complete circus scene comprised of thousands of scale models depicting every element of a traditional circus, including sideshows, clowns, trapeze artists, and animal acts. Also on display are circus posters, circus art by Maine artists Alan Fishman, Nancy Morgan-Barnes, and the late Waldo Peirce, and circus images from the museum's own collections of historic photography.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
Circus Exhibit at Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport
A free exhibit of circus models, art, photography, and memorabilia. At the heart of the exhibit is the Bex Bros. Circus, a complete circus scene comprised of thousands of scale models depicting every element of a traditional circus, including sideshows, clowns, trapeze artists, and animal acts. Also on display are circus posters, circus art by Maine artists Alan Fishman, Nancy Morgan-Barnes, and the late Waldo Peirce, and circus images from the museum's own collections of historic photography.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org









