Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Joy! Movement! Celebration! Energy!Enjoy a performance of beloved classical pieces performed by students and recent graduates of the Juilliard School. The selection of music is based around the PMA Collection and curated by Bach Virtuosi Festival Associate Artists, Leerone Hakami and Jessica Wu violins, Weikuan Wang viola, and Noah Koh cello. A gift to the...
10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Juneteenth Open House, Free Admission for all 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Juneteenth Lecture: “Portland’s Historic Black Community and the Underground Railroad” with Seth Goldstein
Using works from the PMA collection, alongside stories drawn from the Portland Freedom Trail, historian Seth Goldstein explores Portland's 19th-century Black community and its role in assisting self-emancipators traveling north following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The lecture highlights the history of Munjoy Hill, the Abyssinian Meeting House, and the maritime...
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wander or cool off in the galleries. Take an art break with free admission all day. 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This year Todd Productions and the PMA teamed up to provide a selection of funky, family-friendly Pride activities at the 7 Congress Square Plaza. Little Chair Printing will be...
Join Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, for a gallery talk in the exhibition Precious: The Value of Ornament. Learn about the genesis of the exhibition, provenance and significance of select works, and how ideas of beauty, material value, and ornament shape the ways museums collect and interpret objects today.
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
With Historian Seth Goldstein At the turn of the twentieth century, as Maine’s shipbuilding, ice harvesting, and quarrying industries declined, a new identity began to take shape: Vacationland. Inspired by images of Maine’s pastoral beauty, visitors from across the Northeast sought respite along its coasts and in its towns—many calling themselves “rusticators.” Join historian Seth...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
An immersive art history course at the Portland Museum of Art and offsite in Midcoast Maine Maine has captivated artists, writers, and promoters for over two centuries as an imagined region that extends far beyond its geography as the easternmost state. This intensive workshop explores the evolving idea of Maine and Mainers through the work...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
An Immersive Art History Course at the Portland Museum of Art and offsite in Midcoast Maine Maine has captivated artists, writers, and promoters for over two centuries as an imagined region that extends far beyond its geography as the easternmost state. This intensive workshop explores the evolving idea of Maine and Mainers through the work...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.