Cultural Facilities and Activities
The following are selected area museums and cultural facilities. Be advised that this is only a
partial listing.
Bar Harbor
Abbe Museum --- Sieur de Monts
Native American Museum and artifacts
Acadia National Park
35,000 acre national park (see recreation section)
Bar Harbor Musical Festival
School for especially gifted youth in music education
Mount Desert Oceanarium/Lobster Hatchery
Marine education center and hatchery
Natural Historical Museum
College of the Atlantic Museum
Wild gardens of Acadia --- Sieur de Monts
Variety of gardens and plants that grow in the area
Blue Hill
Jonathan Fisher Memorial
Restored 1814 period home.
Holt House
Blue Hill Historical Society Collection
Kneisal Hall Chamber Music Festival
Summer school for string and ensemble music
Brooksville
Bagaduce Lending Library
Sheet music rentals
Castine
John Perkins House
Restored 1814 pre-revolution home
Wilson Museum
Display of American artifacts
Deer Isle
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Ellsworth
Colonel Black Mansion
Georgian mansion built in 1862
Guided Museum Tours
Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Hancock County
Amateur/professional performances of staged operettas
Grand Auditorium of Hancock County
Live entertainment, films
The New England Museum of Telephony
Telephone museum and fairs
Stanwood Museum and Birdsacre Sanctuary
100-acre nature preserve and injured bird sanctuary
Hancock
Monteux Opera Festival
Mount Desert Island (City of)
Festival of Chamber Music
Accomplished artists perform
Northeast Harbor
Great Harbor Collection at the Old Firehouse Museum
Trenton
Acadia Zoological Park
Public Zoo
Somesville
Mount Desert Historical Society
Features the "most photographed" bridge in Maine
Southwest Harbor
Summer festival of the Arts
Octoberfest on the pier
Microbrews of Maine
Sullivan
Granite Garden Gallery
Historical granite quarry
Area Libraries
Ellsworth Public Library
667-6363
Circulation 65,000
Hancock County Law Library
(Ellsworth) 667-9542
10,000 volumes
Blue Hill Public Library
374-5515
74,505 volumes
College of the Atlantic-Thorndike Library
Bar Harbor 288-9095
23,455 volumes
Jackson Laboratory-Joan Staats Library
Bar Harbor 288-3371
20,000 volumes
Jesup Memorial Library
Bar Harbor 288-4245
16,000 volumes
Friend Memorial Library
Brooklin 359-2276
Circulation 1292
Brooksville Free Library
326-4560
Circulation 2956
Buck Memorial Library
Bucksport 469-2650
15,000 volumes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Library
Northeast Harbor 276-3988
1,000 volumes
Bass Harbor Library
244-3798 Dorcus Library
Prospect Harbor 963-4027 Great Cranberry Island Library
244-7358 Northeast Harbor Library
276-3333 Seal Harbor Library
276-5306 Southwest Harbor Public Library
244-7056 Stonington Public Library
367-5926 Winter Harbor Public Library
963-7556 Witherie Memorial Library
Castine 326-4375
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