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Museums Maine Ashland - Bangor

Augusta
Maine State Museum
83 State House State
State House Complex
Augusta  ME  04333    
  Phone  207 287-2301
  Web Site  http://www.state.me.us/museum/
  Description  flags & Banners, Maine furniture, geology, biology, archaeology,                        ethnography, domestic & decorative arts, tools, costume & textile,
  Type of Resource  Museum
  Collection A-F  Flags
  Research /Reading  Library
  New or Updated:  07/07/2003

  Maine

  Augusta

  Old Fort Western

  16 Cony Street

  Augusta   ME   04330    

  Phone  207 626-2385

  Web Site http://www.oldfortwestern.org/

  E-mail  mailto:oldfort@oldfortwestern.org

  Alt Web http://www.stepintohistory.com/states/ME/Ft_Western.htm

  Description  British stronghold in French & Indian War was used by Benedict Arnold

                    to staging attack on Quebec in the Revolutionary War, site now holds

                    fort, store and house museum

  Type of Resource  Museum

  Primary Focus  Military

  Building Type  Fort

  Era  1754

  New or Updated:  5/5/2007

  Bangor

  Maine Discovery Museum

  74 Main Street

  Bangor  ME   04401    

  Phone  207 262-7200

  Web Site http://www.mainediscoverymuseum.org/

  Description  museum in historic downtown building has seven areas - science,

                    anatomy, art, geography, physics, literature

  Type of Resource  Museum

  Primary Focus  Children

  New or Updated:  5/10/2007