Welcome to the
Page Farm & Home Museum
Contact Phone: (207) 581-4100
Open Tuesday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
Closed Mondays and Holidays.

For Teachers: Are you interested in taking your class for a tour of the museum? If so, please go to our Resources For Teachers page.

We invite you to take a virtual tour! The mission of the Page Farm & Home Museum is to collect, document, preserve, interpret and disseminate knowledge of Maine history relating to farms and farming communities between 1865 and 1940, providing an educational and cultural experience for the public and a resource for researchers of this period.

Through its collections and programs, the Page Farm and Home Museum contributes to the educational mission of The University of Maine. Thousands of patrons come to the Page Farm and Home Museum each year to learn about the industry, agriculture, economy, and home-life of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The restored White Farm barn, a post and beam structure, is the centerpiece of the Museum. The three-story building, built in 1833, is the last original agricultural building on the University of Maine campus. The quiet and unassuming exterior belies the rich cultural heritage that it represents. A restored one-room schoolhouse from Holden, used by students from 1855 to 1955, was moved to the Museum grounds in 1994. The Winston E. Pullen Carriage House and the Blacksmith's Shop were constructed in 2003. A ¼ acre Heritage Garden rounds out the Museum. Heirloom varieties of herbs, flowers, and vegetables that were grown from 1865 to 1940 are cultivated here.

The Museum has become home for the state's most important collection of farm technologies and artifacts of rural culture. The Museum assures that future generations will be able to gain valuable and practical insights into Maine's rural past. The Page Museum is about farming, and until recently, Maine was about farming. Some would claim that Maine's farming days are not yet over. Blueberries, potatoes, and aquaculture have all taken great strides in recent years. Agriculture promotes tourism both in the bucolic nature of the area and the tastes that become identified with Maine. In this part of Maine, with its often-shaky economy, the future of farming matters. However, there are many different ideas on what direction it should take. The Page Museum is more than a window to the past: In our exploration of conditions and philosophies of the past, we offer suggestions and ideas for the future.

The Museum offers a variety of educational programs for young people from preschool to college age, the largest proportion coming from area public schools. During the 2007/2008 academic year, the Museum hosted 141 school groups to participate in eleven different programs. The Museum has worked very closely with University educators to develop new tours integrating state specified grade-level curricula. Special programs, including our brown bag lunch lecture series, are offered at least monthly, and sometimes two or three times per month. They feature local artisans, craftspeople, university educators and experts in fields related to the Museum's interests. The Museum also hosts monthly meetings of herbal groups, spinning groups, historical societies, and university groups.

The leadership of the Museum is a volunteer governing Board of Directors. Members of the Board are from the education, farming, financial, and legislative sectors. The Museum reports to the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture and the Associate Vice President for Personnel and Student Services. The Museum is blessed with hundreds of volunteers who have supported all areas of the operation. University faculty and staff have been involved in many ways and are highly supportive. University students are employed by the Museum as work-study assistants, through the Upward Bound program for talented Maine students, and through the state job-training program ASPIRE.

To get in touch with the museum for more information, please go to our contact page.

If you would like to donate to the Page Farm and Home Museum you can do so by clicking the link below