FARMINGTON – More than 120 people from all over the country and the United Kingdom are expected to participate in this week’s Stanley Museum steam car seminar and consignment auction to be held in Farmington.

The seminar, starting with a reception Tuesday at 5 p.m., is being held in conjunction with the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s “End of Summer Hoorah” automobile and motorcycle show on Saturday and motorcycle raffle run on Sunday, said museum office manager Kim Richard White. A state grant was received to help the museum and the chamber hold a week-long event, she said.

Along with workshops featuring speakers on various aspects of Stanley Steamers, the event includes a museum tour and chicken barbecue in Kingfield, a Narrow Gauge steam train ride on the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad and a consignment auction featuring five Stanley Steamers up for bid, she said.

Steam car inventor F.E. Stanley’s great granddaughter, Sarah Stanley of New Jersey will be the welcoming speaker Tuesday for the reception to be held at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Workshops will be held on Wednesday and Thursday at UMF with a barbecue and tour of the museum later Wednesday followed by the Narrow Gauge train ride. After participants finish rotating through the various workshops on Thursday, a lobster bake will be held at Mooselookmeguntic Lake with Stanley fiddle music provided by a group known as Stanley and Grimm who perform on vintage Stanley violins.

All events are open to the public although some meals have already reached capacity, she said. The cost to participate in the workshops is $475 with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. Although 120 have already registered, White expects others will show up on the day of the seminars.

Other events such as the auction and train ride are available without paying for the seminars, she said.

“This is the museum’s largest fundraiser of the year,” she said. “It allows us to continue the mission of the museum … a mission to educate.”

The consignment auction on Friday begins with a viewing from 8 a.m. to noon followed by the auction at 1 p.m. at the Learning Center at UMF. Along with the five Stanley Steamers, auction items include steam car parts and memorabilia including books and photographs, she said.

In order to bid at the auction, there is a $25 charge to register to bid, said Jim Merrick, archivist for the museum.

For more information about the planned events, call the museum at 265-2729.