L.C. Bates Museum

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L.C. Bates Museum

The L.C. Bates Museum at Good Will-Hinckey is an early 1900s natural history & culture museum.

06/29/2024

The museum's windows and skylight edges continue to be painted and preserved. It is exciting to show visitors the improvements that follow a long term building conservation plan that was developed to support the needs of the building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. We thank those who have donated to support this important building work.

06/28/2024

Visitors return to the museum to visit the wonderful and educational 100 year old animal and bird dioramas. Come spend a fun summer afternoon exploring the museum's dioramas.

06/26/2024

Conservator Ron Harvey teaches interns about collections preservation as they assist him with the care of the museum's bird collections. His Institute of Museum and Library Services funded work provides an important learning experience for those interested in the museum field. The museum is pleased to have Ron support learning for its helpful interns.

06/25/2024

Artist Daniel Bozhkov who created the fresco, Platypus Man in the museum in 2010 visited with Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer participants and told them about his piece. They all enjoyed seeing his fresco and hearing about how he developed its theme. when he was a participant at the school. Daniel is on the staff of Skowhegan this summer.

06/24/2024

On a rainy day, participants from the Skowhegan School of Painting visited the museum to see the museum exhibits including the dioramas and taxidermy mounts.

06/23/2024

The L. C. Bates Museum Camp season will begin July 1 with Earth and Space Camp. Come join the fun and explore our universe. The museum will not be offering the June history camp this year.

06/22/2024

The summer Colby Arts and Humanities Intern has brought music to the museum. As a classical pianist she has brought the historic organ to life.

06/19/2024

Helpful volunteer Mike has been in the "cool in more ways than one museum" on these hot days giving the doorways on the lower floor a fresh coat of gallery green paint. The doorways look wonderful as a result of his careful work.

06/18/2024

G. W. Hinckley collected many different kinds of seeds for the museum. He put them in labeled glass jars with covers painted red. He reported how he collected apple seeds from several types of apples. He gave large baskets of apples to the boys in a cottage and told them to eat the apples and put the seeds they find in the apples in glass jars for his collection. The collection contains jars of several different varieties of apples.

06/17/2024

The hard work of pointing and whitewashing the brick walls in the museum's lower floor exhibit spaces is almost finished. The walls are preserved and stronger and look as they did when the building was built in 1903. We thank the kind donors who made this building preservation work possible.

06/15/2024

The museum was pleased to have a Boy Scout troop visit the museum to learn about nature by touring the museum collections.

Address

14 Easler Road
Hinckley, ME
04944

Telephone

+12072384250

Website

http://www.gwh.org/lcbates, http://www.gwh.org/

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