Maine Maritime Museum

[1][2] Maine Maritime Museum has a large and diverse collection, made up of millions of documents, artifacts and pieces of artwork and includes an extensive research library.

[3] The museum is set on a scenic active waterfront on the banks of the Kennebec River and includes the historic Percy and Small Shipyard with five original 19th-century buildings, a Victorian-era shipyard owner's home and New England's largest sculpture – a full size representation of the largest wooden sailing vessel ever built, the six-masted schooner Wyoming.

Encompassing the historic Percy & Small Shipyard, the new location allowed all museum functions to be in one place for the first time in the organization's history.

[9] The museum's collection contains more than 20,000 objects and millions of rare documents and manuscripts related to Maine's maritime heritage and its direct global impact, from prehistory to the present.

Mary E is the third and most recent museum property to be added to the National Register of Historic Places, joining the Percy & Small Shipyard and the Donnell House.

[17] The museum's campus is dominated by a sculpture, designed to evoke the schooner Wyoming, which was the largest wooden vessel ever built in the United States.

The Wyoming sank in 1924, but in an effort to connect Maine visitors with the seafaring past and raise the profile of the museum, a full-scale sculptural installation was erected in 2001 to celebrate the ship.

The project includes a complete redevelopment of the front entrance and 5-acre south campus, with a goal of enhancing visitor experience, creating an ecologically friendly and attractive landscape to border the Kennebec River, and increasing physical accessibility.