Exhibits

Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round, all at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Closed all state holidays. 287-2301

Bar Harbor: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum,” is ongoing; “Mocotaugan: The Story and Art of the Crooked Knife,” will be featured through Dec. 31; and “Dr. Abbe’s Museum in Mr. Dorr’s Park,” will be featured through Oct. 16, all at Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 288-3519

Bath: “A Maritime History of Maine,” and “Lobstering and the Maine Coast,” and “Percy and Small Shipyard,” all continuing exhibits. Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except major holidays, Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St. 443-1316

Bath: Paintings by Frances Pratt Caswell will be featured through Sept. 25, at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, corner of High and Centre Streets. The cafe is open Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

Bethel: “Barn Again: Celebrating an American Icon,” a traveling exhibit, will be featured through Oct. 22 at the Bethel Historical Society, 10-14 Broad St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 824-2908

Bridgton: A collection of 15 murals by Rufus Porter (1792-1884), will be featured through Oct. 9 at the Rufus Porter Museum, 67 N. High St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and after Labor Day, Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $5/$4 647-2828

Brunswick: The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College is showing “Continuing Exhibits from the Collection” and “S.S. Roosevelt: A Model of Strength,” continuing; and “Weaving a New Tradition: Baleen Baskets from North Alaska,” and “Beautiful Utility: A Look at Inuit Crafts,” will be featured through Oct. 31. Gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 5 p.m

Brunswick: “Ars Antiqua: Treasures From the Ancient Mediterranean World,” will be featured through January of 2007 at Bowdoin College at the Susan Dwight Bliss Room in Hubbard Hall. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. 725-3275

Fryeburg: The Fryeburg Historical Society Museum, 96 Main St., is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and 5:30 to 9 p.m. and every Thursday 1 to 4 p.m. and at other times by appointment. 935-3132

Hallowell: “Recent Works by Sarah Helen Harvey,” will be featured through Sept. 25, at Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Friday, noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 622-3813

Liberty: Early American hand tools, Native American artifacts and the work of over 75 contemporary Maine artists and craftspeople are ongoing at the Davistown Museum, 58 Main St. Gallery hours: Labor Day through Christmas, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 288-5126

Litchfield: Ongoing, changing art exhibit by Aleta Manchester of New England landscapes, historical to the present, is featured at the Country Café, Route 126. The café is open seven days a week. 268-4003

New Portland: Ongoing exhibits, featured year round, include Indian art from the U.S., Canada, South America, with special focus on Maine’s Abenaki, also with a basket collection, at Nowetah’s American Indian Museum, Route 27. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free 628-4981

Nobleboro: Paintings by Philip Barter, Eric Hopkins, Paul Plante, Elena Jahn, John Neville and Jane Dahmen are featured continuously at Gallery House, 5 Center St. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 563-8598

Ogunquit: “Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings,” will be featured through Oct. 15; and “Memories of World War II: Photographs From the Associated Press Archives,” will be featured through Oct. 15, both at the Ogunquit Museum of Art, Shore Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. $5/$3 646-4909

Portland: “Contemporary Art From the Permanent Collection,” “Newly Restored McLellan House and L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Galleries,” and “Form and Design in Glass and Ceramics,” all ongoing; and “Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern,” will be featured through Oct. 16, all at Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 775-6148

Portland: Photographs by Annette Dragon will be featured through Oct. 14, at the USM Glickman Family Library. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 780-4269

Portland: “Talking Walls: Discover Your World,” will be featured through September of 2005 at Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. from Memorial Day to Labor Day and Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Labor Day to Memorial Day. 828-1234

Portland: “Vincent Hartgen Paintings,” will be featured through Sept. 24, at Aucocisco, 157 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “Todd Webb Photographs,” will be featured through Sept. 24, at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “Old Salts and New Directions: Portland Harbor and the People Who Make it Work,” and “Snow Squall: The Journey of an American Clipper Ship,” will be featured through Nov. 27 at Portland Harbor Museum, SMCC Campus, Fort Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $4/$2 799-6337

Portland: “Donna Lee Rollins: Negative Nudes in a Positive Light,” will be featured through Oct. 29 at Radiant Light Gallery, 142 High St. Gallery hours: Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., first Fridays, 5 to 9 p.m. or by appointment. 775-1485

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “Andrew Wyeth: Early Watercolors,” will be featured through Sept. 18; “Gulls, Ravens and a Vulture: The Ornithological Paintings of James Wyeth,” will be featured through Oct. 10; and “Lauren Shaw Multimedia Show,” will be featured through Nov. 27, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockland: Works by Alan Bray of Sangerville, John Wissemann of Cushing and Melanie Wissemann Essex of London, England, will be featured through Sept. 10 at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. 594-5935

Rockport: “Water,” an exploration and interpretation of the importance of water to earth and its inhabitants, will be featured through Oct. 1; and “John Goodman: Boxers and Ballerinas,” will be featured through Oct. 1, both at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. $5 236-2875

Saco: “Simple Gifts: The Alfred Shakers 1783-1931,” will be featured through Oct. 30 at the Saco Museum, 371 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and Thursday, noon to 8 p.m. $4/$2 283-3861

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; “Alex Katz: Collages,” will be featured through Sept. 18; and “Terry Winters: Prints and Sequences,” will be featured through Nov. 6, all at Colby College Museum of ARoute Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 4:30 p.m. 872-3549