Artnet

A Museum Wants a Piece of the Meteorite That Just Fell in Maine—and Is Offering a $25,000 Reward for the First Specimen

Forget needles in a haystack, try finding a meteorite in a field. That’s the call coming from the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in the small town of Bethel, which is offering $25,000 for the first one ...
Central Maine

13 Maine museums with quirky collections

They include old telephones in Ellsworth, ice harvesting tools in South Bristol, bird carvings in Southwest Harbor and ...
Yahoo

Maine museum offering $25K for piece of "incredibly rare" meteorite

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you see the fireball that flew across Maine's skies over the weekend? If you did, it could be beneficial to try to remember ...
CNN

Virtual lobster museum gives visitors a pinch of Maine

Calling all lobster lovers and crustacean connoisseurs! You may think Maine’s most famous residents are best enjoyed with a side of melted butter, but Sebastian Crissey would like to change your mind.
The Boston Globe

Maine Maritime Museum celebrates 60 years

Maine’s rich seafaring and shipbuilding history is on full display at the Maine Maritime Museum, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Located in Bath on the former site of the historic Percy ...
CBS News

Maine Museum With World-Class Meteorite Collection Now Open To The Public

BETHEL, Maine (CBS/AP) — From an outsider's perspective , a museum that houses the five largest lunar meteorites may be as difficult to find as a space rock in a field. The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum ...
PBS

Fifth Maine Museum

Learn about Maine's deep connection to the Civil War at the Fifth Maine Museum on Peaks Island. Maine has a deep connection with the Civil War and one of the best places to experience it is at the ...
NPR

A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock

A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. Experts hoping to study the meteorite are now offering a financial reward to anyone who can recover a ...
Hosted on MSN

This Maine museum takes visitors back to the golden age of wooden ships

To folks “from away,” Bath, Maine, may not ring a bell the same way as cities like Portland or Bar Harbor. But for a time, it was among the busiest international ports on the Eastern seaboard, ...
WABI-TV

Maine State Museum educator reflects on suffrage period for Women’s Equality Day

Maine (WABI) - Women’s equality day is commemorated on Aug. 26 of every year. It dates back to 1920 when a constitutional amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote. TV5 talked with ...
The Boston Globe

Maine Mineral & Gem Museum opens, and it’s pretty out of this world

BETHEL, Maine — The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, years in the making, opened here Dec. 12 — and it’s astounding. The 15,000-square-foot world-class museum brings geology to life with dazzling displays ...