Second Floor

Hudson Museum, The University of Maine

Temporary Exhibit Space - Section A

This 2,000 sq. ft. temporary exhibit area will have the ability to showcase a wide variety of exhibitions, including traveling exhibits and exhibitions developed from the Museum's holdings and loan collections. This gallery will be the first gallery visitors enter in the Museum. Exhibitions will change on a regular basis to provide new offerings for patrons, who visit the Museum during MCA events.

Maine Gallery -

Section B

A 3,000 sq. ft exhibit on Maine Indian history and culture will be developed drawing on the Museum's historic collections and archaeological collections from UMaine's Anthropology Department. Working as a team, Museum staff, UMaine faculty and Maine Indian people will create an exhibition that presents the history, traditions, and culture of Maine's four tribes–Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. The exhibit will also be designed to meet recent Maine legislation, LD 291, which requires the teaching of Maine Indian history and culture in elementary and secondary schools.

World Cultures -

Section C

The Hudson Museum is the only Museum of non-Western cultures in Maine. The Museum's previous exhibit strategy was to showcase a culture group or region (Mesoamerica, Panama, Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast, Arctic, etc) in a discreet exhibit installation. The goal is to move away from the patchwork quilt of small mono-cultural exhibitions and to create a 4,000 sq. ft. thematic exhibition that draws on diverse elements of the Museum's collections to showcase cultural diversity. Through this exhibit visitors will be able to explore how cultures live, face common problems and solve them in both similar and unique ways. This exhibit will be the lynch pin of the Museum's new mission in a post 9/11 world.

Museum Culture Lab - 2

Located adjacent to the Museum's galleries, this space will be used as a Museum visitor lounge, providing a space for visitors to relax, peruse books about the Museum's exhibits and collections, and do on-line research and access the Museum's website and virtual collection database. Museum events, including receptions will be held in this space.

Museum Education Office - 3

Central to Museum education and outreach is the Museum Educator. Office space for the educator is located immediately adjacent to the Museum galleries.