Children's Museum of Maine - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine has been recognized for its contributions to education on local and national levels. Receiving numerous grants and awards has allowed the Museum & Theatre to expand their outreach efforts aimed towards lower-income families. Some of these efforts include: scholarship memberships for families with demonstrated need; free outreach and educational programming for rural and urban schools; and free or reduced admission opportunities including $1 Fridays the first Friday night of every month.

Awards and recognition received include:

• Winner of the Nickelodeon Parents' Pick Award for the Best Museum for little kids and big kids (2008) and the Best Museum in Portland (2009)
• We Are Maine, a global learning center featuring stories from diverse families who call Maine home, is supported by a $92,500 Museums for America grant award from the Institute of Museum & Library Sciences (May 2005)
• Active member of Environmental Exhibits Collaborative (EEC), a team developing traveling exhibits with natural science themes relevant to New England, funded with $840,000 grant from Jane’s Trust (Dec 2004–present)
• Received $92,500 Museums for America grant award from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to produce a multicultural exhibit (Sept 2004)
• The only New England host site of Japan & Nature: Spirits of the Seasons, a world-class multicultural exhibit funded by the prestigious Freeman Foundation (July-Sept 2004)
• Ranked #14 on the Child (magazine) list of top children’s museums in the country (2002)
• Selected by Eastman Kodak as a host site for an ongoing Camera Obscura exhibit, one of fewer than 20 in the United States (1994)