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PublishedApril 28, 2025
Want to visit Maine’s children’s museum? You’ll need a kid with you | Column
Adults who want to visit the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine in Portland must be accompanied by a child or attend a special event, like the Imagination Ball happening next week.
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PublishedApril 12, 2025
Children’s Museum loses federal grant intended for Wabanaki history programs
The Portland museum is losing most of the grant funding it was awarded last year by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a project that includes curricula support for teachers and programs for museum visitors.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2024
Children’s museum receives over $200,000 to advance ethnic studies
The federal grant of $224,143 will help the Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine develop programs that comply with Maine law calling for African American and Wabanaki studies in public schools.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2023
Wabanaki exhibit set to debut at Portland children’s museum
The exhibit, titled 'Ckuwaponahkiyik Atkuhkakonol: Wabanaki Storytelling Through Art and Traditions,' explores the Wabanaki people.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2021
The Wrap: Restaurants reopen after a long winter
Good news for the owners of Swallowtail Farm & Creamery in Whitefield who woke in the middle of the night to find a tractor with a bucket loader destroying their farm stand.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2020
Rare camera obscura raised to roof of Children’s Museum & Theatre
The large periscopic camera will once again be available for public viewing when the museum and theater reopen this spring at a new location at Thompson's Point in Portland.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2020
Children’s Museum and Theatre won’t reopen on Free Street
The institution's longtime home closed in March because of the pandemic. Its new Thompson's Point location is poised to open in the spring.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2019
Children’s Museum celebrates young new citizens
The Oct. 31 ceremony involved 15 children from seven countries.
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PublishedJune 13, 2019
Children’s museum’s new director touts motherhood as her greatest qualification
Julie Butcher Pezzino will lead the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine through a fundraising campaign and its relocation to Thompson's Point.
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