Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year-round; “Cabinet of Curiosities, the Museum Science Collections and You” continues at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.

Augusta: Works by Irene Rothe will be featured through May 17 at the Finance Authority of Maine, 5 Community Drive. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 1-800-228-3734

Bangor: “Todd Webb: Joy Without Measure,” works by Sean Beavers and “Staff Selects: Works From the Permanent Collection,” will be featured through July 5 at University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St. 561-3350

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

Bath: “Paintings and Mixed Media by Margaret Leonard” will be featured through May 4 at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, 160 Centre St. 442-8577

Bath: “Charles Goodhue Remembered: Charlie Goodhue” will be displayed through May 31 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center Art Gallery, 798 Washington St. 442-8637

Bowdoinham: “Young at Art,” an exhibit of young artists, will be shown through July 12 at Merrymeeting Arts Center Cathance Landing, 9 Maine St. The hours are noon to 3 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 666-8907

Bridgton: Works by Tobey Diane Grigsby will be featured through May 2 at Gallery 302, 38 Main St. 647-2787

Brunswick: “Pejepscot Past Times: Objects from the Original Collection” is ongoing at Pejepscot Historical Society, 159 Park Row. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and until 8 p.m. Thursday. 729-6606

Brunswick: “The American Scene: Part II” will be shown through Aug. 31; “Great Graphics II: Prints 1970-Present” will be featured through May 28; “The American Scene: Part II” will be displayed through June 8; “Glimpses Into the Floating World: The History of Ukiyo-e” will be featured through June 22; and “Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage” will be shown through July 27, all at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 5 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 725-3275

Brunswick: “Japanese Prints” will be featured through June 22 at Bowdoin College Focus Gallery. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 5 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 725-3275

Brunswick: “Northward Over the Great Ice: Robert E. Peary and the Quest for the North Pole” is continuous at Bowdoin College Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Free 725-3416

Brunswick: “Garry Mitchell: New Paintings” will be featured May 3 through May 31 at ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St. Gallery hours: 1 to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. 725-8157

Brunswick: “Intimate Views: Dance of Two Cultures” will be featured through May 31 at Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St. 729-5500

Falmouth: Works of Maine artists inspired by Borestone Mountain will be featured through May 23 at Maine Audubon Gilsland Farm Center. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. 781-2330

Lewiston: “Taking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin Lake” will be featured through May 24; works by seven studio art majors will be shown through May 24; a kimono exhibit will be on display through July 19; and “Recent Work: Photographs by Michael Reidy, Kirk Read and Claudia Aburto Guzman, will be held through May 18, all at Bates College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 786-6329

Lewiston: Works by Paul Fortin will be featured through May 12 at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Beeaker Gallery.

Lewiston: “Studio Connections: Artists Supporting MPBN” will be featured through May 18 at L/A Arts Gallery 5. 782-7228

Lewiston: “Reading, Writing and Defining: USM Book Arts at Stone House Faculty Exhibition” will be featured through June 14 at USM L-A College, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. 753-6500

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

New Harbor: “Guns, Politics and Furs: Pemaquid and the Defense of the Eastern Frontier 1667-1761” will be featured continuously at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, Pemaquid Point. 677-2752

Norway: “Food in Art,” with works by the Western Maine Art Group, will be featured May 2 through May 31 at Norway Memorial Library, 258 Main St. 743-5309

Portland: “Masterpieces From the Currier Museum of Art” and “Selected N.C. Wyeth Masterworks” are ongoing; “New Natural History” will be shown through May 11; “The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings From the Boston Public Library” will be featured through June 1; and “Moving Landscapes: Short Films by Larry Gottheim and JJ Murphy” will be on display through June 8, all at Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday. 775-6148

Portland: “We Are Maine,” a multicultural exhibit and a fire truck exhibit, is ongoing at the Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and after Memorial Day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. $6 828-1234

Portland: “Gallery Artists: New Work -Realism to Abstraction” will be on display May 2 through May 31 at Susan Maasch Fine Arts, 29 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 699-2966

Portland: “Maine College of Art Senior Thesis Exhibit” will be featured through May 31 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: A spring art show, “Nature in Art,” will be featured through May 30 at Southern Maine Community College Library, 86 Fort Road. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. 741-5574

Portland: “Drawn to Abstraction,” featuring works by Wolcott Dodge, Sean Hasey and Ryan Wight, will be featured through May 4 at USM Area Gallery. Gallery hours: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. 780-5008

Portland: “Four Stories: Inside the Portland Harbor Museum Collection” will be featured through Nov. 30 at Portland Harbor Museum on the waterfront. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. $4 799-6337

Portland: “Works on Paper,” with drawings, prints, paintings and photographs, will be featured through May 31 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. 772-1961

Portland: “New Works by Ed Douglas” will be featured through May 31 at Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 772-2693

Portland: “The Art of Message: Posters New and Old” will be featured May 6 through July 6 at UNE Westbrook College, 716 Stevens Ave. Gallery hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday. 221-4499

Portland: The “Ninth Annual Employee Art Show” will be featured May 9 through June 16 at Casco Bay Frames, 295 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 774-1260

Portland: “Nature: Subtle, Sublime, Surreal – Plus,” featuring the photographs of David Wade, Fran Vita-Taylor and Dan Dow, will be on display through May 31 at Addison Woolley Gallery, 87 Market St. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 775-0678

Portland: “Woodcuts: American and European Masters” will be featured May 2 through June 28 at Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 25 Forest Ave. 699-2919

Richmond: The works of Andre Benoit and Leo Marcus will be featured through May 11 at Royall Gallery, 52 Main St. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. 522-9501

Rockland: “The Wyeth Collection” and “Alex Katz: Early Paintings” are featured continuously; “James Wyeth: Selected Works” will be shown through May 18; “The Farnsworth and the Art of our Time” will be featured through June 15; and “Uncommon Treasures: Folk Art From the Farnsworth” will be shown through Nov. 30, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $8/$5 596-6457

Topsham: “Flying High,” with works by Barbara Bean, will be featured through May 14 at Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road. 725-1727

Unity: “Student Show 2008” will be featured through May 10 at Unity College Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. 948-3131

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz” and “Ancient Art” are ongoing; “Highlights From the Lunder Collection” will be featured through June 15; “Whistler at Work: The Process of Printmaking” will be on display through June 15; “Joan Whitney Payson Collection” will be up through June 1; “Chuck Close: Self Portrait – Scribble, Etching, Portfolio, 2000” will be shown through Sept. 21; and “The College Collection as Kunstkammer” will be from May 2 through May 25, all at Colby College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. 872-3549

Wiscasset: “Recent Acquisitions of American and European Art” and “New Works,” by the gallery’s diverse group of contemporary New England artists, will be featured through May 22 at Wiscasset Bay Gallery, 67 Main St. Gallery hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 882-7682

Yarmouth: “Yarmouth at the Turn of the Century” is ongoing at Yarmouth Historical Society, Main Street. Gallery hours: 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 846-6259