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Portland Press Herald: See these new acquisitions by Portland Museum of Art, before they go back into storage

The museum has a collection of 19,000 objects and counting, and only a fraction are on display at any given time. We look at how these pieces get to the museum and where they go when they're not on display.

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This Month At Your Museum: March 2024
Youth Art Month is here!

YAM is an annual exhibition showcasing the incredible talent in Maine’s art education programs.

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To Our Community

Like many museums, municipal, and cultural organizations, we continue to be adversely impacted by the instability of the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum is therefore reducing its staff size by thirteen positions. These positions include salaried managers and employees, as well as hourly employees. Frontline support staff, including Gallery Ambassadors and Security Associates, are not impacted by these reductions.

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PMA Films: The Best Films of 2023

PMA Films Specialist Chris Gray shares his list of personal favorites from the last year in cinema.

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PMA Films: The Oscar Shorts begin!

Check out what’s new in PMA Films!

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Boston Spirit Magazine: Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process

Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process.

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Press Release: "Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter" opening at the Portland Museum of Art Summer 2024

This exhibition explores the humor and sharp wit of one of the most insightful visual and literary artists of the 20th century.

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Family Days

Save the dates for upcoming Family Days at the PMA.

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Portland Press Herald: Art review: Historic photos from Caribbean paired with contemporary art of the diaspora

[Fragments of Epic Memory is] a celebration of kaleidoscopic talent and – with its companion display of 19th-century photography – extraordinary resilience.

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Free Digital PMA Guide

Explore the PMA with our digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, taking you behind the scenes with exclusive multimedia perspectives from artists, curators, and more.

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Press Release: "+ collection" opening at the Portland Museum of Art in February 2024

There are more than 19,000 artworks in the PMA collection—each one of them has a story. 

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Portland Press Herald: Our View: Portland Museum of Art plan deserves to proceed

The city received 2,000 responses from the public during an uncommonly collaborative selection process. Much has been made of the selected plan’s homage to the Wabanaki and of its use of “mass timber,” an environmentally friendly category of wood product that the museum wants to source here in Maine.

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Submissions: Art in Bloom 2024

Submissions are now closed for Art in Bloom 2024.

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Gift the PMA experience!

Give a year’s worth of art experiences with a gift membership.

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Waterless Snow Globe

Make your own waterless snow globe as a fun decoration for the holiday season!

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