Events
Summer 2025 Events
Save the Dates:
August 7th: Museum Party Day!
September 13th: Maine Open Lighthouse Day
Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands Lecture and Workshop Series
In conjunction with the exhibition The Monhegan Wildlands: Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island, the Monhegan Museum of Art & History is collaborating with the Monhegan Associates, Inc. land trust to present an exciting series of lectures and workshops this coming summer. Inspired by the exhibit’s topics, materials, and themes, this lecture series invites people to deepen their understanding of the cultural, ecological, and artistic history of Monhegan Island. Below is a list of our guest speakers and workshop leaders. This season’s lecture series has been generously sponsored by the Monhegan House.
Thursday July 24th:
“Small Island, Big Questions: Monhegan, Conservation, and the Entanglements of History”
Matt Klingle, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College
Thursday July 31st:
“The Monhegan Wildlands: Artists, Ecologists & the Resilience of a Maine Island”
Jennifer Pye, Barry Logan & Frank Goodyear, co-curators of the exhibition “Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands
Thursday August 7th:
“Mapping Monhegan”
Libby Bischof, Phd., Executive Director, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, Professor of History and University Historian, University of Southern Maine
Thursday August 14th:
“A Dynamic Niche: Monhegan Modernism and Island Ecology“
Annual Edward L. Deci Endowed Lecture
Alan Braddock, Department Chair, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History, Environmental Humanities, and American Studies, College of William & Mary
Date TBD:
“Healing Woods: Native Relations with Nature and Coastal Petroglyphs”
Donald Soctomah, Passamaquoddy Historic Preservation Director
Thursday September 18th:
Scott Weidensaul, Naturalist and author of the book “Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds”
Exhibition Sponsor:
Recordings of Past Events
Chasing Down Monhegan’s Apples
A Conversation with Bobby Ives
Artists’ Houses and Their Stories
Island Inspiration: Monhegan’s Art Colony, 1890-2000, a book talk with author Leith MacDonald.
Encountering James Fitzgerald: a talk with author Calvin Hennig.
Ed Deci and the Monhegan Museum… A Love Story
A Film by Paul Goldsmith
CONSIDER SUPPORTING US
Your donations help us preserve Monhegan’s rich history for future generations.
HOURS
Museum Hours for the 2025 Season
June 15-30 & September 16 -30:
12:30-2:30pm daily
July, August & September 1st- 15th: 11:30am- 3:30pm daily
James Fitzgerald – Rockwell Kent Historic Artists' Home and Studio
June 15- September 30
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 1:00-3:00pm
Sundays: 11:00am - 3:00pm
LOCATION
Monhegan Museum of Art & History
1 Lighthouse Hill, Monhegan, ME 04852
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