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The Hudson Museum’s return to the Collins Center
On February 25th, the Hudson Museum will open its changing exhibit gallery in the Collins Center for the Arts with an exhibition of ethnographic weaponry, Armed to the Teeth: Ethnographic Weaponry from the Hudson Museum’s Collections. The exhibit is being developed in conjunction with the Collins Center performance of Sweeny Todd, the legendary demon barber of Fleet Street. Among the Museum’s holdings are examples of weapons from around the world–clubs, axes, daggers, swords, throwing spears, bows and arrows and blowguns. The exhibit will group the weapons by type, comparing and contrasting the different materials used to make them and their use in warfare, in hunting and as objects of status and power. One section of the exhibit will deal specifically with Precolumbian warfare and will include West Mexican ceramic figurines that depict warriors, battle scenes and captives.
The entire Museum, including the two permanent galleries will open in Fall 2009, as part of the Collins Center Gala.
Summer Hours
Monday Through Friday 9am - 4pm
9am - 6pm during selected Collins Center
for the Arts & Bangor Symphony Orhestra events.
2008
Hudson Museum Friends Basket Raffle
Birchbark
Container by Barry Dana, Penobscot
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Barry Dana a former Penobscot Chief
is renowned for his etched birchbark work. The basket is made
from winter bark of the paper birch, sewn with spruce root
and held to form with cedar rims. Traditionally these pieces
would have been used as food storage containers. This year's winner was Tommy Barrios.
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