Acadia All American Road
Abbe Museum, ME

This museum has Stone Age antiquities along with exhibits about Abnaki Indian culture and habitation on the Maine coast. You can catch a workshop or other educational programs.

The Abbe Museum was one of the first musuems built in Maine and is the only museum devoted entirely to Maine's Native American heritage. The focus is on the history and culture of the Native Americans. The archaeological collections house more than 50,000 objects from a span of 10,000 years of history. There are objects shaped from bone, such as combs and needles. In fact, there is even a rare, 3000-year-old flute made from the bone of a swan. Many objects are made of stone including knives and axes. The musuem also includes more recent collections of beads, copper, pipes, jewelry and woodcarvings.

The original museum is located at Sieur de Monts Spring in Acadia National Park. It is surrounded by gorgeous woodland with trails running through it. A new year-round location in downtown Bar Harbor has a spacious gallery, a hands-on learning lab, and indoor and outdoor areas for special programs.