We invite you to explore for yourself the people and purpose behind the American Revolution. Our doors and grounds are open for you to touch, feel, smell, and even taste life as it was 242 years ago and imagine, in new ways, what it was like to participate in creating monumental, historic change. (Curated content from www.knoxmuseum.org)
The Sail Power and Steam Museum is one of the greatest treasures in Rockland. It preserves the maritime heritage of this blue-collar seacoast town. We have wonderful displays of the common tools and equipment of the hard working men of our maritime industries. (Curated content from www.sailpowersteammuseum.org)
Our mission is to provide children and families the opportunity to explore, discover and learn about the natural world, the arts and sciences, and the diversity of Maine’s mid-coast, through play. (Curated content from www.coastalchildrensmuseum.org)
TThe Farnsworth Art Museum offers a nationally recognized collection of works from many of America’s greatest artists, with 20,000 square feet of gallery space and over 15,000 works in the collection. It has one of the largest public collections of works by sculptor Louise Nevelson, while its Wyeth Center features works of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. (Curated content from www.farnsworthmuseum.org)
The Strand Theatre, located in downtown Rockland on the coast of Maine, has been entertaining audiences since 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the theater underwent an extensive renovation in 2005, which included new sound and projection equipment, a fully restored interior and exterior, and a bright new marquee. (Curated content from www.rocklandstrand.com)
The Maine Lighthouse Museum is the proud home of the largest collection of Fresnel lighthouse lenses and the most important landmark collection of lighthouse artifacts and Coast Guard memorabilia in the United States. The museum has merged the spectacular lighthouse collection from the former Museum of Lighthouse History of Wells, ME with these exhibits. The two collections are now on display and marvelously complement each other. (Curated content from mainelighthousemuseum.com)
The original light was a “fixed white lens lantern, 18 feet above the breakwater. This lantern hung on an iron crane on top of stone beacon, 24 feet above sea level.” On August 15, 1892 the beacon was changed to two red lanterns, spaced six feet apart, one above the other placed on a mast atop the stone pillar. In 1895, the beacon was further improved by providing a six-by-six foot building at the base of the mast. (Curated content from www.rocklandharborlights.org)