Friday, May 22nd is the official opening of the Fifth Maine Museum!
Be sure to stop by the museum to see our new exhibits and find out about our fun-filled 2020 season!
Last year we set out to replace the entire roof of the Fifth Maine Museum…and WE DID IT!!!
Now it’s time to celebrate and thank everyone for their support!
Please join us for our Raise the Roof THANK YOU BAR-B-Q!!
We’ll have the grill going, the music playing, and lots of time to catch up with friends and neighbors.
We hope to see everyone there!
Come meet artist and Peaks Islander, Ben McCanna, at the opening reception of our 2020 photography exhibit, “The Commuter: Views from the Machigonne and Beyond.”
The perspectives and composition of Ben’s photographs resonate with every visitor, but this show will touch islanders in a special way as it explores the role that the boats, the bay, and the city play in our lives.
Copies of photographs will be available for purchase and light refreshments will be served.
We’re celebrating Maine’s 200th anniversary of statehood — not with a look back, but by looking ahead to the tricentenary!
Come to our Maine birthday party for a blend of past, present, and future fun.
The amazing band What Cheer will play for us, we’ll fire up the grill, the kids can bounce on the bouncy castle, and you can get a tintype photograph of the family.
Everyone is invited to add something to the time capsule so that islanders of the future get a snapshot of life on Peaks Island in 2020. Then it’s time to lower our time capsule in the ground and start the clock.
Only 100 years until we can dig it up!
Please join us for the first Pancake Breakfast of the 2020 season!
Pancakes, eggs, ham and more! including gluten-free pancakes.
Come and enjoy great food, great company, and a great view from the scenic porch of the Fifth Maine Museum.
A perfect way to start a Sunday in Maine!
Adults $10, kids under twelve $6, kids under three eat free (cash, checks or credit cards accepted).
Join us for an opening reception of our new exhibition showcasing some of the most significant Civil War-era weapons and armaments in the Fifth Maine Museum collection.
The culmination of several year’s work, the exhibit features weapons carried or collected by the soldiers of the Fifth Maine Regiment, one of the Union Army’s most celebrated fighting regiments. Guest Curator, Eric Champigny, will discuss the objects including muskets and a pistol, a Navy carbine, a bayonet, swords, shells, and projectiles. They represent both the Confederate and Union armies.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please join us for pancakes, eggs, ham and more! including gluten-free pancakes.
Come and enjoy great food, great company, and a great view from the scenic porch of the Fifth Maine Museum. A perfect way to start a Sunday in Maine!
Adults $10, kids under twelve $6, kids under three eat free (cash, checks or credit cards accepted).
This unique fundraiser for the Fifth Maine Museum introduces the art of homemade pasta making in a small classroom setting followed by a shared meal where we enjoy the fruits of our labors with home made sauce, meatballs, salad, and some wine.
Class size is limited to 10.
Browse the beautiful, handmade items for sale by 35 artists and craftsmen. This annual Fifth Maine Museum fundraiser also features hot food off the grill (hotdogs, hamburgers, and veggie dogs), a bake table groaning with yummy desserts and a 50/50 raffle – you could go home with more cash than you came with!
Imagine a summer afternoon on the back shore of Peaks Island gathering rose hips in the sunshine. Then going back to the Fifth Maine to learn how to make rose hip jam.
As part of this unique Fifth Maine Museum fundraiser, you’ll go home with three jars of vitamin C-rich rose hip jam and the life-long ability to make it on your own.
Class size is limited to 10.