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Wilson Museum

Address: 107 Perkins St., Castine, ME | Map It
Phone: 207/326-9247
www.wilsonmuseum.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Castine

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Fodor's Review:

The Wilson Museum is made up of four historic structures. The main building houses anthropologist-geologist John Howard Wilson's collection of prehistoric artifacts from around the world, including rocks, minerals, and other intriguing objects. The John Perkins House is a restored Colonial-era house originally built on what is now Court Street, in 1763, and enlarged in 1774 and 1783. The house fell into disrepair until the 1960s, when the Castine Scientific Society had the house taken down piece by piece and reassembled it here on the grounds of the Wilson Museum. Inside you can find Perkins family heirlooms and 18th- and early-19th-century furnishings. The kitchen and four front rooms appear as they did in 1783. The Blacksmith Shop holds demonstrations showing all the tricks of this old-time trade. Inside the Hearse House you can see the summer and winter hearses that serviced Castine more than a century ago.

Cost: Museum, Blacksmith Shop, and Hearse House free; John Perkins House $5
Open: Museum late May-late Sept., Tues.-Sun. 2-5; John Perkins House, Blacksmith Shop, Hearse House July and Aug., Sun. and Wed. 2-5

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