Visual Tour
Introduction
The Davistown Museum is a fait accompli - we've managed to put together an interesting regional tool and history museum with no funding whatsoever from traditional federal, state or private foundation sources. We have received grants from the MBNA Corporation and significant donations from the Barker Steel Co. Unlike other museums, which hang specific shows for a period of time ranging from a few weeks to a few months, our exhibits undergo subtle changes on a weekly or monthly basis. Individual artists loaning contemporary artworks may choose to withdraw a loan at any time.
We hope you enjoy the photo tour of The Davistown Museum. The photographs range in age from the beginning of the Museum in 2000 to recent acquisitions. Phil Rogers has recently rephotographed the interior of the main hall -- many of these photos are included (as noted.). They show views of the museum prior to the 2005 Art Show.
You can see a close-up of any image when using Netscape by right clicking on the photo and selecting the option for view Image. Use the back button to return to this page. In all browsers, some of the photos will display a close-up when you click on them.
Our New 2007 Tour may be viewed here
| This is a view of the main hall of the Museum
from a window in the fourth floor photography and environmental history
room. Please note our floor map of the Norumbega bioregion, which
we define as the land lying between the Kennebec and the Penobscot rivers.
The Davistown Museum is located two thirds of the way up the map from the
coast, along the Montville - Waldoboro mast trail (route 220), in what
we call the Norumbega backcountry.
Visitors to our Museum photo tour please note we have plenty of space to mount special exhibitions on the main (walkable) floor. |
 © Peter Mallow 2000 |
 © Phil Rogers 2002 |
 © Phil Rogers 2002 |
| Visitors to the Museum will note that as they enter the main hall, our tool and antiquarian art displays are on the left side of the hall. As you browse the photographs, note by the dates the gradual evolution of the Museum displays as additional tools and artwork join the growing Museum collection. | |
 © Phil Rogers 2002 |
 2001 |
| Our displays of antiquarian artifacts merge with our installations of contemporary sculpture, paintings, assemblage art and found artifacts. In the center of the right photo is the main entrance. The reception desk is just to the left. Behind and to the left of the desk we are currently exhibiting a collection of paintings and drawings by the Boston school artist Virginia Goolkasian. Note in the left photo there is a new painting behind the desk. | |
 © Phil Rogers 2002 |
 2001 |
| When visitors first enter the main hall of the Museum they will encounter three display cases devoted to Native American artifacts. The first display case contains some interesting artifacts from outside of New England including an Anasazi basket (top shelf), the large Apache Indian water basket, an old sand painting, a skull crusher and two three legged earthen pots dug in the early part of the 20th century from a Caddoan mound in east Texas (Central American trade items that were deposited in the mound at an unknown date). | |
 © Phil Rogers 2002 |
 © Peter Mallow 2000 |
 2001 Of particular interest, is our collection of wampum, one of the largest on display in any New England museum. |
 © Phil Rogers 2002 |
 2001 |
 2001 |
