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1 | Free Online Resources from Maine Collecting Institutions | |||||||||||
2 | Access Collections and Other Content From Home While Mainers Shelter in Place | |||||||||||
3 | To add to this list: shorturl.at/brLT4 | |||||||||||
4 | List hosted by the association of Maine Archives and Museums: www.MaineMuseums.org/OnlineResources | |||||||||||
5 | Need to edit your entry? Contact kate.webber@maine.gov | |||||||||||
6 | Organization Name | Category of Resource | Web address where people can find your resource (html link, please) | Recommended age level [can check multiple] | Subject [can check multiple] | One-sentence description of the resource (think short, specific, descriptive teaser that prompts people to visit your page) | ||||||
7 | Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (USM) | Digital archives | https://oshermaps.org/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Current Events | More than 60,000 of our half a million maps, atlases, books, etc. are fully digitized and searchable on our website. Users can zoom into hi-res images of maps, charts, atlases, etc. and download lo-res images for presentations, reports, homework, etc. | ||||||
8 | Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (USM) | Online lesson plans and activities | https://oshermaps.org/teach | Elementary School, Middle School, High School | History, Science/Natural Science, Current Events | Search our fully downloadable Social Studies lessons using maps, charts, and atlases, as well as worksheets, boardgames, and other activities for K-12 students and teachers! | ||||||
9 | Monhegan Musuem of Art & History | Digital archives | https://monheganmuseum.org/search-art-2/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | Art | The next best thing to being on island! View our at collection online! | ||||||
10 | Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (USM) | Online Exhibitions | https://oshermaps.org/category/past-exhibitions/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Science/Natural Science | Stuck at home? Missing museums? Tour the Osher Map Library's virtual recreations of our popular gallery exhibits. | ||||||
11 | Monhegan Museum of Art & History | Digital Exhibit | https://monheganmuseum.org/online-3/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art | Visit our exhibits without leaving your home! | ||||||
12 | Penobscot Marine Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/ | Elementary School, Middle School | History, Art | Maritime history and culture modules with lessons, primary sources, and activity ideas. | ||||||
13 | Penobscot Marine Museum | Digital archives | https://penobscotmarinemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/advancedsearch | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Maritime | 1,000s of online Maine photographs, documents, and artifacts | ||||||
14 | Penobscot Marine Museum | Online Articles | https://pmm-maine.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4a2df165ccd04876914242839e7bdb0f# | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Science/Natural Science, Geography | Sailing from Boston to Buenos Aires: The 1892 Diary of Ernest W. Perkins | ||||||
15 | NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center | Online Articles | https://www.nedcc.org/family | High School, College, Adult | History, Family photograph and memorabilia preservation | Learn how to care for your family's treasured photographs, audio recordings, maps, documents, and books.The experts at NEDCC provide advice on best conditions and storage for all the items that record your family's history. | ||||||
16 | Brick Store Museum | Videos or podcasts | http://brickstoremuseum.org/education/digitallearningcenter/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Current Events | Digital lectures, podcast episodes, history videos, and online exhibitions can be found on our Digital Learning Center! | ||||||
17 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/learn/100-years-to-vote-teaching-materials/ | Middle School, High School | History | "100 Years to the Vote" Lesson plans on the Maine women's suffrage movement. Standards-aligned, recommended for grades 4-12. Learn about suffrage maps, political cartoons, and a historic debate! | ||||||
18 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/learn/bicentennial-teaching-materials/defining-maine/ | Middle School, High School | History | "Defining Maine" - Explore Maine woods and waters through an interactive digital map and journal from Joseph Treat and John Neptune’s 1820 journey to survey the new state. Designed for Grades 8-12. | ||||||
19 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/learn/bicentennial-teaching-materials/primary-source-sets/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School | History | Maine Bicentennial Primary Source Sets - Themed packets of primary sources with teacher guides, background info, and analysis worksheets. Explore Maine-based documents, images, and artifacts! Designed for Grades K-12. | ||||||
20 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Reading-Art-Maine-and-World-War-I-Teaching-Guide.zip | Middle School, High School | History | "Reading Art – Mainers and World War I" teaching guide and materials designed for Grades 6-12. | ||||||
21 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/learn/maine-voices-from-the-civil-war/ | Middle School, High School | History | "Maine Voices from the Civil War" - Resources including transcribed letters and biographies (materials to supplement a Civil War unit, not full lesson plans). | ||||||
22 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Design-Your-Own-State-Seal.pdf | Preschool, Elementary School, Middle School | History, Art, Arts & Crafts | Design your own Maine State Seal with this blank template! | ||||||
23 | Maine State Museum | Online lesson plans and activities | https://mainestatemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Optional-Maine-State-Symbols.pdf | Preschool, Elementary School | Science/Natural Science, Arts & Crafts | Coloring activity--Maine's state symbols (animals, plants, insects) to print and color! | ||||||
24 | Maine State Museum | Online exhibits | https://mainestatemuseum.org/exhibit/regional-struggle/ | High School, College, Adult | History | Check out stories and artifacts from the Maine State Museum's Bicentennial exhibit "Regional Struggle - National Story: Maine's Path to Statehood." | ||||||
26 | Maine Maritime Museum | Videos or podcasts | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBTfz9WfXrWE2TtU7Q9SgA | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Boatbuilding | MMM's YouTube channel includes boatbuilding tutorials, virtual tours of our collections, and more! | ||||||
27 | CultureConnect | Resources portal for museums, practical guides for executing all of the above | https://cultureconnectme.com/category/covid-19-resources-portal/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Science/Natural Science, Arts & Crafts, Current Events, all AAM museums and libraries categories | Series of guides, interviews, webinars published weekly to help museums connect online with audiences. Covers a wide range of topics. | ||||||
28 | Hudson Museum | Virtual tours, videos, public access collection database, on-line exhibits | https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Anthropology | Explore a world of culture from the Wabanaki to the Precolumbian civilizations of Mesoamerica and beyond through the Hudson Museum's digital resources. | ||||||
29 | The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum | Online exhibits | https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/index.html | Preschool, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Natural History | An online resource for Bowdoin College's Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, a museum dedicated entirely to all things Arctic. | ||||||
30 | Yarmouth History Center | Virtual tours of your site | https://www.yarmouthmehistory.org/new-walking-tour/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Take a walk (or visit from your couch) and learn about Yarmouth's historic industries and neighborhoods. | ||||||
31 | Maine Maritime Museum | Digital archives | https://archive.org/details/mmmlibrary | High School, College, Adult | History | Nathan R. Lipfert Research Library on Internet Archive | ||||||
32 | Maine Maritime Museum | Online exhibits | https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/mainemaritimemuseum | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art | Maine Maritime Museum on Google Arts & Culture | ||||||
33 | Maine Maritime Museum | Digital archives | https://maritimeme.pastperfectonline.com/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Science/Natural Science, Arts & Crafts | Maine Maritime Museum Collections Database | ||||||
35 | Ski Museum of Maine | Online Articles | http://www.skimuseumofmaine.org/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Did you know that there has been a representative from Maine in every Winter Olympics since 1948? | ||||||
36 | Castine History Partners | Virtual Tour of Castine, Maine | https://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/castine-virtual-tour | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Explore Castine and learn about our historic sites! The tour features short histories, audio, and galleries of historic images. | ||||||
37 | Franco American Programs | Live interactions (video chat with a curator or educator, etc.) | https://umaine.edu/francoamerican/ | High School, College, Adult | Franco American Culture | "Around the Kitchen Table" -- One-hour, informal discussions on Zoom discussing topics announced beforehand. | ||||||
38 | George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library | Digital archives | https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/research-and-instructional-services/class-instruction.shtml | High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Science/Natural Science | Access to Bowdoin College's digital collections and projects and resources for how to meaningful integrate them into an online learning environment. | ||||||
39 | Greater Portland Landmarks | Online lesson plans and activities | http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/self-guided-walking-tours | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, architecture | Learn more about your neighborhood while you're taking a walk, or explore Portland from home with our free self-guided walking tour maps! | ||||||
40 | Greater Portland Landmarks | Free book downloads | http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/publications | Elementary School, Middle School | History, architecture | Download our activity books about the Portland Observatory and Portland history for free. | ||||||
41 | Greater Portland Landmarks | Videos or podcasts | http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/videos | High School, College, Adult | History, architecture | Our video archive includes dozens of neighborhood history talks about Greater Portland. | ||||||
42 | Greater Portland Landmarks | Online lesson plans and activities | http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/neighborhood-resources | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, architecture | Our neighborhood resources include videos, presentations, maps, and more about Greater Portland neighborhoods, and we're adding more to this page every day. | ||||||
43 | Maine Historical Society | Online lesson plans and activities | https://www.mainememory.net/search/lessons | Elementary School, Middle School, High School | History | Lesson plans on Maine history that provide teachers and students with diverse subject matters for each Social Studies strand, and promote critical thinking as students interact with primary documents.. | ||||||
44 | Maine Historical Society | Online exhibits | https://www.mainememory.net/exhibits | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art | Explore online exhibits on diverse topics of Maine history. | ||||||
45 | Maine Historical Society | Digital archives | https://www.mainememory.net/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art | Maine Memory Network (MMN) brings together digital collections from historical societies, libraries, museums, individuals, and other cultural institutions across Maine in a database where users can utilize online exhibits, interactive tools, lesson plans, and other resources, to learn about, celebrate, and share local history. | ||||||
46 | Maine Historical Society | Online Articles | https://www.mainememory.net/mymainestories/ | High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Science/Natural Science, Arts & Crafts, Current Events | My Maine Stories is a participatory storytelling forum that provides an online space for individuals to share recollections about Maine through text, audio, video, and photos, including experiences in Maine, memories of family or community, work life, or impacts of a historical event in Maine. | ||||||
47 | Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine | Online exhibits | https://www.vamonde.com/adventure/link/1460 | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Scavenger hunt of downtown Lewiston-Auburn Franco-American history. | ||||||
48 | Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine | Digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/franco/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | The Franco-American Collection's digitized archival materials on the USM Digital Commons. | ||||||
49 | USM Special Collections | Digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/slavery/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | Slavery in the United States | Documents of slave ownership showing the inhumanity. | ||||||
50 | USM Special Collections | Video, digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/african_american/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Maine African American history and society / community | Videos about leaders in the African American community and digitized items including photographs and objects regarding the life and history of the community, with strong focus on civil rights and negative stereotypes. | ||||||
51 | USM Special Collections | Video, digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/lgbt/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Maine LGBTQ+ history and life, with a emphasis on civil rights | Videos of programs on history and activism, full text community newspapers, photographs, objects, and oral histories with an emphasis on the civil rights movement of the 1990s-early 2000s. | ||||||
52 | USM Special Collections | Digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wwi_posters/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, World War I | Posters created by the US government and community organizations promoting public support for the war effort. | ||||||
53 | USM Special Collections | Digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sbernstein_correspondence/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, World War II | Correspondence between a Mainer serving in southeast Asia during WWII and his family in Portland about the war and events in Maine. | ||||||
54 | USM Special Collections | Digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sweetser/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Education--Historical Maine student and teacher | Letters and photographs of a woman who attended Gorham Normal School in the late 19th century and taught in Maine in the early 20th century. | ||||||
55 | USM Special Collections | Digital archives | https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/political_buttons/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Politics | Buttons of 20th century American politics and social movements. | ||||||
57 | Margaret Chase Smith Library | Videos or podcasts | https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMCSLibrary/videos | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Current Events | Biographical, historical, and current events videos | ||||||
58 | VAMONDE | Online exhibits | https://www.vamonde.com/maine-archives-and-museums | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Art, Science/Natural Science, Arts & Crafts | VAMONDE provides immersive digital experiences, field trips and exhibits from museums all over the state. | ||||||
59 | McArthur Public Library | Digital archives | http://www.biddefordhistory.com | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Digital collections plus indexes and finding aids | ||||||
60 | McArthur Public Library | Videos or podcasts | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpgUL7u7HEkJvygIOKq825A | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Research Biddeford history like a boss: tours and tutorials for using our digital collections | ||||||
61 | Maine State Archives | Digital archives | https://digitalmaine.com/arc_img/ | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History, Policy | Online repository of over 60,000 items from Maine history, including maps, state laws, photographs, and more. | ||||||
62 | Maine State Archives | Crowd-Sourced Transcription | http://digitalmaine.net/projects/ | High School, College, Adult | History | The Digital Maine Transcription Project invites the public to make significant Maine documents accessible online through the use of crowdsourcing. | ||||||
63 | Maine State Archives | Virtual tours of your site | https://www.maine.gov/sos/arc/bicentennialmsa.html | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | The Maine Virtual Reality Experience uses VR technology to put you in some of Maine’s most notable places, with historical and informational voice over. | ||||||
64 | Washburn-Norlands Living History Center | Online exhibits | https://norlands.org/about-the-washburns.html | High School, College, Adult | History | The Washburns of Livermore: Maine's Connection to the Civil War | ||||||
65 | Museum L-A | Virtual tours of your site | https://www.museumla.org/permanent-exhibit-virtual-tour | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | The 360-degree photographs of our exhibit spaces in the historic Bates Mill include interest points that describe collection items and historical facts about the major industries of Lewiston and Auburn that are typically shared in our regular 45-minute tours. | ||||||
66 | Museum L-A | Online lesson plans and activities | https://www.museumla.org/educational-materials | Elementary School, Middle School | History, Art, Math | This site hosts all online and digital resources Museum L-A has created for educators and the general public including interactive timelines, worksheets, and lesson plans. | ||||||
67 | Museum L-A | Digital archives | https://www.museumla.org/character-cards | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Museum L-A's online character card program allows visitors to engage virtually with the stories of former workers of Lewiston and Auburn's major industries pulled from the museum's extensive oral history collection. | ||||||
68 | Museum L-A | Online exhibits | https://www.davidscobey.net/weaving-a-world | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Museum L-A's traveling exhibit, Weaving a World, explores the world of immigrant textile mill workers in 20th century Lewiston, Maine and is now available to virtual visitors! | ||||||
69 | Presque Isle Historical Society | Virtual tours of your site | https://www.pihistory.org/virtual-tours-of-historic-downtown.html | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | 30 short narrated video vignettes of historic downtown Presque Isle, Maine | ||||||
70 | Presque Isle Historical Society | Videos or podcasts | https://youtu.be/7VjQpClB7Wg | Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | A podcast hosted by University of Maine at Presque Isle's History Club with Presque Isle Historical Society | ||||||
71 | History Live! North East | Videos or podcasts | http://historylivenortheast.org | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Adult | History | A collection of educational videos from top reenactors, museum professionals, and historical interpreters from all over the world! | ||||||
72 | Department of Secretary of State | Online lesson plans and activities | https://www.maine.gov/sos/kids/ | Elementary School | History | Games, photos, facts and maps all about the State of Maine. | ||||||
73 | Patten Free Library | Live interactions (video chat with a curator or educator, etc.) | https://www.patten.lib.me.us/history-room/history-room-live/ | Adult | History | Join Patten Free Library's History Room staff Jill and Karen on Zoom to learn about local history and genealogy resources from the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room! | ||||||
74 | Washburn-Norlands Living History Center | Videos or podcasts | https://www.vamonde.com/posts/introduction-to-working-an-oxen-team/9731 | Elementary School, Middle School, High School | Farming - Agriculture | Meet 19th-century Farmer Tom Pratt and His Working Team of Oxen | ||||||
75 | Museum L-A | Virtual tours of your site | https://www.museumla.org/child-labor-virtual-tour | Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College, Adult | History | Museum L-A has created a virtual reality tour of our recently closed "All Work and No Play" exhibit that explores the grim history of child labor in the state of Maine. | ||||||
76 | Museum L-A | Online lesson plans and activities | https://www.historyweaver.net/ | Elementary School, Middle School, High School | History | Museum L-A's new History Weaver suite features mini-exhibits and lesson plans/activities about three highly requested topics: Textiles, Child Labor, and Immigration. | ||||||
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