Call for artists to design, craft a dozen showpiece items for the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum

To mark the 50th anniversary of "The Big Find," the museum is showcasing a dozen original pieces crafted to exemplify the picturesque tourmaline stones. The pieces will be previewed down the road, and will be offered for purchase on Oct. 13, 2022.

Discussion with the artist to be hosted by museum

Bowdoin College

Discussion to focus on critique of biography

Wilhelm Reich Museum

Rufus Porter museum offering virtual tour

Frances Perkins Center hosts virtual garden party attending to social justice and economic security

Museum L-A launches Androscoggin River photo contest

Rufus Porter Museum receives $4,000 grant

Different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people

Museums nationwide are working to make their collections more accessible for people with disabilities, said Elizabeth Merritt, vice president for strategic foresight for the alliance, which represents museums of all sorts, from tiny local history museums to huge zoos.

Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly?

‘The World Between Empires’ helps dismantle the myths of Rome

"The World Between Empires" focuses particularly on the period from 100 B.C. to about 250 A.D., when the empires of Rome to the west and Parthia to the east contested this territory, with shifting borders, long periods of uneasy peace and devastating wars that seemed to settle nothing.