Museum News and updates

We greatly appreciate hearing from our visitors when circumstances keep them away from the museum.

Greetings from the museum crew to Caleb and Ben.

At their annual holiday party and training event, the Maine Air National Guard presented museum curator Lee Humiston with a civil war era sword. The sword will be proudly displayed at the museum.

The Maine Military Museum Board of Directors thanks the Air Guard members for all that they do for the museum and we wish them the best in the new year.

Mrs. Joan Marcel Brochu presented the Museum with a menu that her father saved from the 1941 Christmas party in Pearl Harbor.

Joan was born in Pearl Harbor in 1937 and survived the attack along with her family.

Museum volunteers Shawn Withers and Peter Maestre set up the museum’s Christmas tree and wreath again this year. The tree is decorated with donated ID tags from WWI through today. The tree will be on display through January.

Museum curator Lee Humiston was honored by the Southern Maine Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America for his activities as founder, director, and curator of the Maine Military Museum.

The museum host a wonderful group of students from South Portland’s Holy Cross School on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. This was a wonderful group of students who showed great respect and interest in the museum and its collection.

Thank you for visiting Holy Cross students.

The Maine Military Museum had a photographer at the NAM-POW reunion. The photographs have been made part of the museum’s online tribute to POWs.

The Maine Military Museum and Learning Center welcomes the NAM-POWs to Maine for their 2019 reunion. Bill Nemitz of The Portland Press Herald has written an article about the first meeting of former POW Orson Swindle, who is here for the reunion, and spotter pilot Dick Manning.

The Maine Military Museum has added a separate room for Japanese and Japan related exhibits from World War II.

The room is in the new section of the museum and items are currently being moved to and added to the exhibits.

The Richard A. Davis reading room in the new section of the museum has been completed.