Located in the Arts District in downtown Portland, the Children's Museum of Maine features a wide variety of interactive exhibits and activities for children and families!

Imaginations are motivated in Our Town on the first floor, which features a lobster boat, an interactive supermarket, a vet clinic, a fire truck, a farm, a soft gated play-and-learn area for toddlers, and a car repair shop. Also on the first floor, our newest exhibit entitled Talking Walls: Discover Your World, introduces kids to the many walls in cultures all over the world.

Young explorers love the Explore Floor, a series of interactive science exhibits depicting the natural resources of the State of Maine. Exhibits feature a Ranger Station, climbing wall, water table, tree house, yellow submarine, and tide pool touch tank.

The Museum also offers a dress up theater complete with stage and costumes, miniature planetarium shows, daily art, science and multicultural programs, special toddler times and the amazing Camera Obscura, which delivers an unbelievable panoramic view of the City of Portland and Casco Bay Đ itŐs one of only three of its kind in the country!

During the warm months, the MuseumŐs outdoor Shipyard is a great place to have lunch while sailing a pirate ship into port!

Museum guests and the public are invited to visit the MuseumŐs Explore Store for imaginative gifts chosen with learning in mind.

The Children's Museum of Maine is located in downtown Portland at 142 Free Street, next to the Portland Museum of Art.