Free Museums within 50 miles of Portland 

• Most public libraries have free or reduced museum & park passes- ask.

• Androscoggin Historical Society Museum, Lewiston

• Biddeford Mills Museum, Biddeford

• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick

• Brick Store Museum (free on Tuesdays for all; free always for military & veterans), Kennebunk

• Brunswick Naval Aviation Museum, Brunswick

• First Amendment Museum, Augusta

• Franco-American Collection, USM, Lewiston

• Museums of Fryeburg Historical Society, Fryeburg

• Falmouth Heritage Museum & Barn, Falmouth

• Holocaust & Human Rights Center, Augusta

• MECA+D Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland

• Maine Irish Heritage Center, (Thursdays 10 am-2 pm), Portland

• Maine Jewish Museum, Portland

• Maine Military Museum, South Portland

• Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland

• Osher Map Library, USM, Portland

• Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick

• Pejepscot History Center, Brunswick

• Portland Museum of Art (free Fridays 4-8 pm; free always to under 21 & EBT/SNAP; free May-Sept for military & family), Portland

• Portland Public Library's Lewis Gallery, Portland

• Saco Museum (free Fridays 4-8 pm), Saco

• Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum, Springvale

• Scarborough Historical Museum, Scarborough

• Scribners Mill & Homestead, Harrison

• Shaker Museum, New Gloucester

• Skyline Farm & Carriage Museum, North Yarmouth

• The 1839 Kimball-Stanford House, Lovell

• Umbrella Cover Museum ($0-5), Peaks Island

• Union of Maine Visual Artists Gallery, Portland

• University of New England's Art Galleries, Portland & Biddeford

• Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead, Hallowell

• Museums of Village Green, Windham

• Wilson Museum Campus, Castine

• Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum, Alna

• Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, Freeport

• Yarmouth History Center

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         Free Museums Statewide 

• Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville

• Davistown Tools Museum, Liberty

• Deer Isle Granite Museum, Stonington

• Dorr Museum of Natural History, Bar Harbor

• Maine Forest & Logging Museum (grounds free to walk on), Bradley

• Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum, Livermore Falls

• Maine Ski & Snowboard Museum, Carrabassett Valley

• Museums of Bethel Historical Society, Bethel

• Northern Maine Museum of Science, Presque Isle

• Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm, Unity

• Page Farm & Home Museum, Orono

• Sail Power & Steam Museum ($0-10 donation), Rockland

• Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center, Skowhegan

• Thompson Ice House Harvesting Museum, South Bristol

• Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport

• Wilson Museum, Castine

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          Free Tours & Walks 

• Guided Tours of Evergreen Cemetery (June-Oct every Saturday & Sunday)

• Guided Tours of Maine State Capitol

• Langlais Art Trail & Sculpture Preserve, Cushing

• Maine Ice Age Trail, Down East

• Maine Irish Heritage Trail

• Merryspring Nature Center, Camden

• Portland Freedom Trail

• Portland Women's History Trail 

• 17 Historical Walks in Portland Metro

• Tour of Bethel Hill Village

• Viles Arboretum, Augusta

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         Roadside Attractions 

• Maine's Nine Covered Bridges

• Berlin Wall Slabs, Old Port, Portland

• Blowing Cave, Kennebunkport

• Captain Brown, Giant Old Salt Fisherman, Boothbay Harbor

• Eartha, World's Largest Rotating Globe, Yarmouth

• Giant L.L. Bean Boot, Freeport

• Jockey Cap Rock Robert Peary Monument, Fryeburg 

• Lenny The Chocolate Moose, Scarborough

• World Traveler Signpost, Lynchville

• World Traveler Signpost, South China

• World's Largest Telephone, Bryant Pond

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