Museums in Maine to offer free admission as part of Museum Day Live

The best free ticket in town is now just a click away at smithsonian.com/museumdaylive to download tickets for Smithsonian’s “Museum Day Live!” Tickets grant free admission for two people per household to participating museums on Saturday, Sept. 29. Museums in Maine participating in the eighth annual event celebrating cultural education through the nation’s museums and institutions are the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk; Burnham Tavern Museum, Machias; Castle Tucker, Wiscasset; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport; Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland; Cole Land Transportation Museum, Bangor; Hamilton House, South Berwick; L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley; Maine Historical Society Museum and Longfellow House and Garden, Portland; Maine Maritime Museum, Bath; Maine State Museum, Augusta; Museum L-A, Lewiston; Nickels-Sortwell House, Wiscasset; Nowetah’s American Indian Museum and Store, New Portland; Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; Rufus Porter Museum, Bridgton; Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum, New Gloucester; Saco Museum, Saco; Sarah Orne Jewett House, South Berwick; Seashore Trolley Museum operated New England Electric Railway Historical Society, Kennebunkport and The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick.