A Month of Fun: Friday, July 25
Go out on the town for free at the Portland Museum of Art.
Photo courtesy of Portland Museum of Art/Arnold Newman/Gift of the artist for the Ernst Haas Memorial Collection. Photo by Meyersphoto.com
Visit Portland’s Premier Museum (for Free), Portland
For a true night on the town in Portland, go out to dinner at one of the city’s many fine restaurants before taking advantage of one of its best deals. In the heart of the city is Maine’s largest museum, the Portland Museum of Art. And on Friday nights from 5 to 9 p.m. you can skip the admission fee and tour the five floors of art on the cheap. The permanent collection features a large rotating selection, plus special nationally touring exhibitions. Among the artists who are collected here are Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Winslow Homer, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and more. Two exhibits you won’t want to miss on this particular Friday: Urban Seen, a collection of more than twenty paintings, prints, and photographs documenting scenes from American city life (there are some great images of Portland), and Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, an exhibition of sixty photographs of the artist paired with eighteen works of art by O’Keeffe. If you can’t clear your schedule on Friday night, admission at all other times is ten dollars for adults, eight dollars seniors and students with identification, four dollars children six to seventeen, free for children under six. 207-775-6148. www.portlandmuseum.org.
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