Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round, 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 at Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 288-3519

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

Bath: Photographs by Harry Clayton Davies will be featured through March 31 at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, corner of High and Centre streets. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

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. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. 725-3416

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

Brunswick: “Ars Antiqua: Treasures From the Ancient Mediterranean World,” will be featured through January 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

Brunswick: “Le Grand Siecle,” featuring 17th-century French history and culture, will be featured through Jan. 23 at Bowdoin College Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 725-3832

Brunswick: Works by flameworking artist Nicholas Repenning, will be featured through March 31; and works by Edward “Eddie” Leaman will be featured through March 1, both at Abracadabra Fine Arts Gallery, 11 Pleasant St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 725-0386

Brunswick: An exhibit on the healing arts will be featured Jan. 20 through Jan. 31 at Maine Street Art, 141A Maine St. 721-0244

Farmington: Works by Johnna G. Haskell will be featured through Jan. 31, at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, 710 Wilton Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 778-5315

Freeport: Maine landscapes and seascapes and paintings and limited edition prints by Maine artists Eric Hopkins, Neil Welliver, Connie Hayes, Tom Curry, David Little, Wendy Turner and Jeff Colquhoun are featured continuously at Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers, 149 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 865-4519

Lewiston: “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30; works by Keith Tyson will be featured through March 19; and “Activator,” a group exhibition of installations, will be featured Jan. 19 through March 20, all at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: “Erratic Locations: Dudley Zopp,” will be featured Jan. 19 through March 4 at L-A College Atrium Art Gallery, 51 Wesminster St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 753-6500

Liberty: Early American hand tools, Native American artifacts and the work of more than 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 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

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

Orono: “In the Road,” featuring emerging artists from the UMO senior capstone class, will be featured through Feb. 3; and “Michael Alpert: Recent Photographs,” “Five Landscape Paintings,” and works by Lauren Fensterstock will be featured Jan. 20 through Feb. 8, all at UMO Carnegie Hall. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 581-3245

Portland: “Murray Hantman: From Image to Abstraction,” will be featured through Jan. 29; “New Acquisitions 2005,” will be featured through Feb. 26; works by Willem de Kooning will be featured through December 2006; and “Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy,” will be featured Jan. 19 through March 19, 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: Works by Pamela Lawson, June August, Jeanne Hayman and Stephen Burt will be featured through Jan. 28, at the Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

Portland: A group show of gallery artists will be featured through Jan. 28, at Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Gallery hours Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 772-2693

Portland: “Maine Women: Living on the Land,” will be featured through Jan. 22 at UNE Westbrook College, 716 Stevens Ave. 221-4499

Portland: “Faculty Exhibition 2006,” will be featured through Feb. 5; and student works will be featured through Jan. 21, both at MECA Porteous Building, 522 Congress St. 775-3052

Portland: “Ten Paces,” featuring black and white photography, will be featured through Feb. 18 at Salt Gallery, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday, 5 to 8 p.m. 761-0660

Portland: “A Matter of Perception 2005,” fifth juried exhibition by artist with disabilities, Kathryn Hirsch “Branching Out,” and “The Art of the Book,” exhibit highlighting examples from the permanent collection, will be featured through Jan. 31, at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. 871-1700

Portland: “Michael Waterman Selections,” will be featured through Jan. 28 at Aucocisco, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 775-2222

Portland: Works by Juliet Gillespie, Susan Hoyt and Susan Tureen will be featured through Jan. 19 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 772-1961

Portland: Paintings by Deborah Whitney will be featured through March 3 at USM Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford Street. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 780-5009

Portland: “From the Inside II,” an exhibit by MECA staff, will be featured through Jan. 14; and “Heather Hagle: Paintings,” will be featured Jan. 16 through Jan. 28, both at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “Tableau Vivant,” by Rolf Koppel, will be featured through Feb. 11 at Radiant Light Gallery, 615 Congress St. Gallery hours: Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., first Friday, 6 to 8:30 p.m. or by appointment. 603-783-77509

Portland: “Leaving Our Mark, Signatures on the Community,” a painting done on a dedicated wall mural, will be featured through Jan. 31 at Casco Bay Books, 151 Middle St. 874-1019

Portland: “30 Years Retrospective of MECA Jewelry and Metalsmithing,” will be featured through Feb. 15 at Richey Jewelry Gallery, 15 Wharf St.

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; works by Frederick Lynch will be featured through Jan. 29; “Stewart Henderson: Rethinking the Enigma,” will be featured through Feb. 5; “Share the Wonder: A Seasonal Celebration,” will be featured through Jan. 22; and “James Wyeth: Selected Works,” will be featured through May 31, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockport: “Flora,” watercolors by Ann Makuck, will be featured through Jan. 31 at Prism Glass Studio Gallery and Cafe, 297 Commercial St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 596-6856

Rockport: “Still Life,” featuring various artists, “Facing Up,” photographic portraits of Maine artists, “Anna Hepler: Drawings,” and “Andrew Sulzer: Free Hand,” will be featured through Feb. 25 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

Turner: “Frozen in Time,” open juried exhibit by photographers from throughout New England, will be featured Jan. 20 through Feb. 18 at Turner Center for the Arts at the Leavitt Institute Building. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 225-3115

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing, all at Colby College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4:30 p.m. 872-3549

Waterville: Works by Barbara Bagshaw will be featured through Feb. 28 at Healing Art Gallery, 200 Kennedy Memorial Drive. 892-5886

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