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South Portland, ME
Phone: 207-799-6337
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Casco Bay area local history museum. Maritime history museum of Portland Harbor.
Portland Harbor Museum is organized to preserve, promote and support the maritime heritage of Portland Harbor, its towns and islands by collecting, preserving, studying, exhibiting, publishing and interpreting information and artifacts bearing on the maritime history and culture of the area covering a time period from prehistory, through the ongoing present and into the future.
Find out how a clipper ship was put together. "Nineteenth Century Wooden Shipbuilding," a permanent exhibit features the massive bow assembly of the "Snow Squall."
"Serving a Great Port," the current rotating exhibit, celebrates the Portland pilots, tugs, Coast Guard, and firefighters who keep our port safe and efficient.
Walk out on the jetty for a close-up look at Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse. Check our web site for lighthouse interior tour dates. Spring Point Light is one of a few remaining "sparkplug" architecture lighthouses. Lighthouse enthusiasts get a double header with a short stroll over to the Portland Breakwater "Bug Light" Lighthouse.
Take in the magnificent vista of Casco Bay islands, forts, and passing ships from your grandstand Spring Point seat at the edge of the Portland Harbor main ship channel.
Inspect the ramparts of Fort Preble. Its granite walls and gun ports enclose the seaward side of the museum campus.
Before you leave, don't forget to pick up a locally-made nautical gift at the museum gift shop.
Portland Harbor Museum offers much to do in one stop, including a changing maritime history exhibits, museum gift shop, Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, historic Fort Preble, scenic shoreline walkway and sandy Willard Beach. Group tours with lunch and historical lecture series available.
The Angell Collection of over 500 century-old glass plate negatives and accompanying phot prints. The South Portland Shipyard Society collection documents the building of 266 WWII Liberty Ships in South Portland.
http://www.portlandharbormuseum.org
Upcoming Events:
1. Year 2000 Exhibition: "Heroes of the Tall Ships:
Portland Harbor in the Age of Sail" - Exhibition which tells the
story of the 19th century mariners who made their living from
the sea and the wooden ships they
sailed from the harbor.
Through December, call for hours. Adults $3; -16 $1; (207)799-6337; www.portlandharbormuseum.org
2. Public tours of the
Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, Sat. Sept. 16 from 10am - 2pm. $5 includes admission to exhibit
gallery.
3. Maritime Lecture Series: PORTLAND
HARBOR MUSEUM
Lecture Series 2000 -
2001
October 22:
"Menhaden-Whalemen: How Fishermen from the Gulf of
Maine Pioneered Modern
Whaling"
Robert Webb, Maritime Museum Curator
How an innovative
application of steam power was used at sea to kill whales,
and render them in companion on-shore plants.
November 19:
"The Penobscot Expedition of 1779: Its History and
Archaeology"
Warren Riess, University of Maine
Maritime Historian & Archaeologist Revolutionary War expedition
against the British in Castine - the search for and archaeological study of its
remains.
January 14:
"Spies Ashore - The
World War II German Landing in Maine"
Mason Philips Smith, Author of
Book by Same Title
The 1944 landing in Maine by a German
intelligence officer and an American traitor.
February
11:
"Days of Joy & Fear: 19th Century Maine Women at
Sea"
Mary Ann Wallace, Historian
The daily lives of Maine women who sailed aboard
their husbands' ships.
March 18:
"The 19th
& 20th Century Irish Dock Workers in Portland"
Michael Connolly, St. Joseph's College Professor of
History
The predominently Irish longshoremen who loaded and
unloaded ships on the Portland
waterfront.
April 22:
"The New England
Lightships"
Fred Thompson, Maritime Historian
The history and heroic folklore of the
lightshipswhich played a major role in guiding
mariners of an earlier time.
Adults $2.00; children under 12 and members free.
From Interstate 295 take Exit 6A and follow Rte. 77 to South Portland. Follow Broadway until it ends; turn right and follow Pickett St. until it ends on the S.M.T.C. campus. The museum is on Fort Rd. by the water's edge.
From the Maine Turnpike (I-95), take Exit 7 and ignore all exits until road ends at Rte. 1. Turn left on Rte. 1 and at fourth traffic light bear right onto Broadway. Continue as described above.
David N. Morton, Board of Trustees Chair
Linda S. McLoon, Director
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