understanding our global family.
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The New Hudson Museum
Transformation is a central cultural theme in many of the objects featured in the Hudson Museum’s collections. We invite you to see how the Hudson Museum has been transformed!
New floor to ceiling casework allows us to showcase objects that could not be exhibited in the old Hudson Museum and also lets all of our visitors see the objects. What was a patchwork quilt of scattered cases on all three levels of the former Maine Center for the Arts is now a state-of-the-art museum. Located on the second level of the Collins Center for the Arts, the Museum features over 9000 sq. ft. of exhibition space with three galleries.
The Merritt Gallery features Dressed for the Gods: Precolumbian Jewelry from the Hudson Museum’s Collections, a temporary exhibit showcasing gold, jade, shell, turquoise jewelry from Mesoamerica. Explore these treasures from our collection.
The new World Cultures Gallery focuses on universal cultural themes–ritual and belief, status and power, home and family, transportation, adornment, foodways, and objects made for others. Visitors will be able to compare and contrast how people from a variety of cultures from around the world are similar and how they are different, how they solve basic issues, and how their environment impacts their solutions.
The Maine Indian Gallery showcases not only traditional artforms–basketry and birchbark, woodworking and decorative traditions–but presents an overview on the Peopling of Maine, including archaeological specimens, the Ice Age in Maine and how Maine’s changing climate will impact the state in the future.
Bring the kids to celebrate the Chinese New Year with us on February 11th.
Coming March 1 to the Merritt Gallery
Temples, Tombs and Tumis:
Archaeological Collections from the North Coast of Peru
Have your students experience Climate Change Science Day, April 16
Climate Change is more than just a change in the weather. This is a great for students opportunity to learn first hand about a subject that will certainly affect them throughout their lifetimes.
For Teachers: Teaching Maine Indian History and Culture, April 28, 2010
An all-day workshop, Wednesday, April 28
Museum Hours
Monday Through Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Closed Sundays and Holidays
Open during selected Collins Center for the Arts and Bangor Symphony Orchestra events.
Free and open to the public