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.

overhead view
© Peter Mallow 2000
center of main hall
© Phil Rogers 2002
overhead view 2
© 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.
left side
© Phil Rogers 2002
left side 2
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.
couch
© Phil Rogers 2002
registration desk
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).
artifacts
© Phil Rogers 2002
Native American artifacts
© Peter Mallow 2000
pots
2001
Of particular interest, is our collection of wampum, one of the largest on display in any New England museum.
wampum 3
© Phil Rogers 2002
wampum 2
2001
wampum 1
2001



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