Events
Weekly throughout the season:
2026 Art and Ecology Event Series
July 23:
Refuge on the Edge of the Sea: Monhegan Island Tide Pools
with Jess Kusher: Biological Oceanographer
July 30:
Island Inspiration
with Leith MacDonald: Artist and Educator
August 6:
Underwater Ecosystems Surrounding Us
with Krisanne Baker: Socio-Ecological Artist and Educator
August 7:
Scratching the Surface Art Workshop
with Barbara Putnam: Artist and former MARC resident
Save the Dates: 2026 Art and Ecology Event Series
September 3:
Kirk Gentalen: Regional Stewardship Manager, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, “Mushrooms thru Binoculars”
September 4:
Kirk Gentalen: Mushroom Walk
Registration Required: check back for further details.
September 10:
Judy Walsh: Conservator, “Materials and Technique in James Fitzgerald’s Watercolors”
September 24:
Jonathan Alderfer: Avian Artist, “Painting Birds”
Recordings of Past Events
Indigenizing History and Education
Swordfish in Wabanaki Homeland
Flying Offshore: Bats in the Gulf of Maine & Monhegan Island
A Dynamic Niche: Monhegan Modernism and Island Ecology
Mapping Monhegan
Art, Ecology, and Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands
Small Island, Big Questions: Monhegan, Conservation, and the Entanglements of History
Chasing Down Monhegan’s Apples: Histories, Mysteries and Results
“I am a Daughter of Monhegan Artists”
Her Canvas: A Museum’s Mission to Champion Women in the Arts by Dr. Orin Zahra
The Allure of Maine’s Lighthouses
Monhegan Artists’ Residency: The First 35 Years
The Deci Lecture Series Presents: Artists’ Houses and Their Stories with Dr. Wanda M. Corn
A Conversation with Bobby Ives
Calvin Hennig: Encountering James Fitzgerald
Island Inspiration: A talk with author Leith MacDonald
James Fitzgerald: Preserving the Artistic Legacy, by Robert L. Stahl
In Search of America’s Earliest Apples: DNA Testing, Historical Research, and Offshore Islands
Inside the Artist Colonies of Cape Ann & Monhegan Island
At Home and Abroad: the Maine National Guard in World War II, 1941-1945
Pathless Woods and Lonely Shores: The Monhegan Art and Photography of S. P. Rolt Triscott
Bellows and Monhegan: Celebrating a Landmark Acquisition
Ed Deci and the Monhegan Museum… A Love Story
A Film by Paul Goldsmith
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HOURS
Museum Hours for the 2026 Season
June 15 - 30
12:30 - 2:30 Daily
July 1 - September 15
11:30 - 3:30 daily
September 16 - 30
12:30 - 2:30 Daily
James Fitzgerald – Rockwell Kent Historic Artists' Home and Studio
June 15- September 30
Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 - 3:00
Sunday 11:00 - 3:00
LOCATION
Monhegan Museum of Art & History
1 Lighthouse Hill, Monhegan, ME 04852
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