Celebrate OPENING DAY with Tate House Museum

The Tate House Museum at 1267 Westbrook St., Portland invites you to shop for perennials and annuals for your garden.

The Odd Fellow of Woodfords Corner would like to invite all to a free tour of our building.

The Kotzschmar Organ hosts its next Backstage Pipes tour and demonstration on January 9, 2023 at 2 pm.

Join Victoria Mansion staff member Brittany Cook and DEI consultant Anisa Khadraoui for a discussion about conducting research into histories that occurred offsite, placing the mansion in the greater context of the United States in the 19th century, faithfully interpreting narratives for historically underrepresented and excluded populations, and how new research impacts and informs the everyday interpretation at a small historic house museum.

Join the Lincoln Count Historical Association for their online winter lecture series.

Join Portland Public Lecture for a Zoom photo tour of some of the architectural styles we see around Portland, Maine, and become better acquainted with the motifs in our midst.

Celebrate Black History Month at the Abyssinian Meeting House with Portland by the Foot walking tours!

Join Victoria Mansion staff member Brittany Cook and the initiative’s DEI consultant Anisa Khadraoui. They will discuss research into histories that occurred offsite, placing the mansion in the greater context of the United States in the 19th century.

All are invited to join the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education for the opening reception of our latest exhibition, Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry, on Thursday, November 17, from 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM, with a panel discussion from 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.

Join Atlantic Black Box Project & Pejepscot History Center for an online lecture: Confronting Our History, Reinventing the Skolfields and the Slave Economy.

Tour Portland’s Western Cemetery. Tour will include the cemetery's history and historical significance, the current effort by the Stewards' volunteers to rehabilitate it, notable burials, ghost and witch stories, its trees and wildflowers.

Tour Portland’s Western Cemetery. Tour will include the cemetery's history and historical significance, the current effort by the Stewards' volunteers to rehabilitate it, notable burials, ghost and witch stories, its trees and wildflowers.

Tour Portland’s Western Cemetery. Tour will include the cemetery's history and historical significance, the current effort by the Stewards' volunteers to rehabilitate it, notable burials, ghost and witch stories, its trees and wildflowers.

In celebration of LGBTQIA+ Month in October, USM's Sampson Center's LGBTQ+ Collection will be holding the Big Queer Historical Bar Tour tracing fifty three years of LGBTQ+ Bars in Portland, Maine.

Seth Goldstein, historian & director of the Cushing’s Point Museum in South Portland, will share his recent research on the 19th century economic ties between Maine and the luxury producing plantations of the West Indies.

Tour Portland’s Western Cemetery. Tour will include the cemetery's history and historical significance, the current effort by the Stewards' volunteers to rehabilitate it, notable burials, ghost and witch stories, its trees and wildflowers.

Come find out what you don’t know about making beer in colonial times while you tour the Tate House museum on a special guided tour.

Tour Portland’s Western Cemetery. Tour will include the cemetery's history and historical significance, the current effort by the Stewards' volunteers to rehabilitate it, notable burials, ghost and witch stories, its trees and wildflowers.

Continue the tradition of Pettengill Farm Day, a celebration of fall and nineteenth-century rural life in Freeport.

Tour Portland’s Western Cemetery. Tour will include the cemetery's history and historical significance, the current effort by the Stewards' volunteers to rehabilitate it, notable burials, ghost and witch stories, its trees and wildflowers.

This popular annual event, which is sponsored by the United States Coast Guard, the Maine Office of Tourism and the American Lighthouse Foundation, attracts between 15,000 to 18,000 visitors each year and offers the general public the rare opportunity to climb and learn about more than a dozen historic Maine lights.

Learn about the complex and ever changing history of one of Portland’s most beautiful and interesting parks on this guided walk with Parks Conservancy ED Nan Cumming.

Professor Silber will connect the national story of the symbolism of Confederate flags with the Fifth Maine Regiment’s role regarding the Confederate flags they captured on southern battlefields during the Civil War.

This talk is free and open to the public, and supported in part by a grant from the Peaks Island Council.