The Museum is open Monday – Friday 9am  – 4pm.

Welcome to the Hudson Museum

Celebrate a world of culture

Education

Guided tours and gallery programs

Events

Collections

Ethnographic and archaeological objects

Exhibits

Opportunities
Image announcing the new exhibit: Body Adornment: Ethnographic Jewelry from Around the World now in the Merritt Gallery of the Hudson Museum.
Image announcing the new exhibit: The Land of Fire and Ice: Investigating the End of the Last Ice Age in Tierra del Fuego, Chile now in the Minsky Culture Lab of the Hudson Museum.

Hudson Museum Hours

The Hudson Museum is FREE and open to the public:

Monday – Friday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm and during Collins Center for the Arts events.

Closed weekends and holidays.

We are located within the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus at 2 Flagstaff Rd, Orono.

Take a Journey Through the Dawnland this Summer!

A flyer for the Wabanaki Journey Through the Dawnlands scavenger hunt.Come explore Wabanaki homelands at the Hudson Museum!

We are thrilled to be participating in the inaugural Journey Through the Dawnlands Wabanaki Homelands Scavenger Hunt – an excursion throughout what we now call Maine to learn more about the Wabanaki homelands.  Collect stamps and stickers for prizes and a chance at an end-of-summer raffle – the more you collect, the more entries you earn!

Visit the Hudson Museum to do a Wabanaki Gallery Scavenger Hunt and get your Hudson Museum sticker for your passport today!

Birchbark container with intricate decorations featuring human faces and a snapping turtle.
Click here for ideas about how to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Explore the rich history of Wabanaki basket tents in the Northeast. Magwintegwak: A Legacy of Penobscot Basketry at the Farnsworth Museum focuses on the Shay family basket tent in Lincolnville Beach, ME, but it wasn't the only one! Click here for an exhibit featuring images of more basket tents.
Black and white image of a canvas tent along a road. The tent reads "Indian Baskets"
Image of the text above the maine entrance to the Hudson Museum showing the Penobscot word for 's/he reminds h/her'.The University of Maine recognizes that it is located on Marsh Island in the homeland of the Penobscot Nation, and the University of Maine at Machias is situated in the homeland of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. Both of our universities recognize that in these homelands, issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites, are ongoing. Penobscot and Passamaquoddy homelands are connected to the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations — the Maliseet and Mi’kmaq — through kinship, alliances and diplomacy. UMaine and its regional campus also recognizes that the Wabanaki Tribal Nations are distinct, sovereign, legal and political entities with their own powers of self-governance and self-determination.

 
 
A black and white symbol showing hands and a rectangle. Indicates "open to collaborate".
Open to CollaborateThe Hudson Museum is committed to the development of new modes of collaboration, engagement, and partnership for the care and stewardship of past and future heritage collections.

The Hudson Museum celebrates cultural diversity and inclusion through our exhibitions, events and programs. We are all interconnected through our common humanity. We decry the death of George Floyd and other senseless violence. Bigotry, racism, inequality and injustice must be addressed and to this end, we will continue to work to honor and reaffirm our mission to foster inclusivity and diversity in all that we do.