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PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM EXTENDS CIRCUS EXHIBIT Thousands of Scale Models of Bex Bros. Circus on View Through February
(repeats every Sunday and Saturday until February 26th)
40 E. Main Street, Searsport, Maine 04974
Searsport, ME
207-548-2529
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Searsport, ME
207-548-2529
[Website] [Directions]
http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pressreleases.html#circus
Penobscot Marine Museum has extended "The Circus Comes to Town" for another month. The free exhibit of circus models, art, photography and memorabilia will be open every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through February 26.
The heart of the exhibit is the Bex Bros. Circus, a complete circus scene comprised of thousands of scale models depicting every element of a traditional circus, including sideshows, clowns, trapeze artists and animal acts. Also on display are circus posters, circus art by Maine artists Alan Fishman, Nancy Morgan-Barnes, and the late Waldo Peirce, and circus images from the museum's own collections of historic photography.
"The Circus Comes to Town" was scheduled to close at the end of January, but the exhibit's popularity on most winter weekends encouraged the museum to obtain an extension of the loan of the Bex Bros. Circus from its owner and creator, Capt. Les Bex.
"The Circus Comes to Town" is in the museum's Main Street Gallery at 40 E. Main St., Searsport. Admission is free.
Maine's first maritime museum, Penobscot Marine Museum is home to outstanding collections of marine art and artifacts, small craft, ship models and historic photography. The admission center is at 40 E. Main St. (US Rte. 1) in Searsport, Maine, between Camden, Bangor, and Bar Harbor. More information is at www.PenobscotMarineMuseum.org or call 207-548-2529.
The heart of the exhibit is the Bex Bros. Circus, a complete circus scene comprised of thousands of scale models depicting every element of a traditional circus, including sideshows, clowns, trapeze artists and animal acts. Also on display are circus posters, circus art by Maine artists Alan Fishman, Nancy Morgan-Barnes, and the late Waldo Peirce, and circus images from the museum's own collections of historic photography.
"The Circus Comes to Town" was scheduled to close at the end of January, but the exhibit's popularity on most winter weekends encouraged the museum to obtain an extension of the loan of the Bex Bros. Circus from its owner and creator, Capt. Les Bex.
"The Circus Comes to Town" is in the museum's Main Street Gallery at 40 E. Main St., Searsport. Admission is free.
Maine's first maritime museum, Penobscot Marine Museum is home to outstanding collections of marine art and artifacts, small craft, ship models and historic photography. The admission center is at 40 E. Main St. (US Rte. 1) in Searsport, Maine, between Camden, Bangor, and Bar Harbor. More information is at www.PenobscotMarineMuseum.org or call 207-548-2529.
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