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Bar Harbor, Maine
cultural events
A verymaine.com introduction to Bar Harbor, Maine
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For those who wish to take a break from nature, Bar Harbor
offers a wealth of cultural opportunities considering its
size.
The Abbe Museum,
situated in downtown Bar Harbor, celebrates the history of
Maine’s Native American tribes. While the museum is open
only by appointment during winter months, but is open daily
late-May through mid-November from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is $6 for adults and $2 for children under 15
years old.
Admission is free to the
Bar Harbor
Historical Society Museum, open June through October,
and by appointment during winter months. The museum takes an
in-depth look into Bar Harbor’s history, including an
extensive display of scrapbooks and photographs about the
1947 fire.
The Bar
Harbor Whale Museum, also boasting free admission and a
June through October schedule, is Maine’s only museum
dedicated to the study and understanding of whales and seals
native to the Gulf of Maine. Should the museum inspire you
to do so, there are many commercial opportunities to take a
whale watching tour while visiting Bar Harbor.
The George B. Dorr
Museum of Natural History is located on the campus of
the College of the Atlantic. It is open mid-June through
Labor Day. The mission of the museum is to investigate,
interpret and display the natural world of Maine. Children,
allowed into the museum for only $1, will enjoy the dioramas
of native wildlife and the indoor living tide pool. Adult
admission is $3.50
Bar Harbor also offers wide variety of shopping, from
traditional tourist souvenirs to upper-crust fare. The town
also has its fair share of restaurants, with seafood
appropriately being the theme for most. There is also a
small movie theater and playhouse in town.
The previously mentioned
College of the Atlantic runs all aspects of the Dorr
Museum. The school, with just under 300 students and 40
full- and part-time professors, offers Bachelor of Arts and
Masters in Philosophy degrees. In a recent national survey
of college nationwide, the College of Atlantic was named in
the top 10 percent in nearly ever category the survey
examined. A year of room and board runs around $35,000,
however 70 percent of the student body receives an average
of $18,000 in financial aid.
Two of Maine’s most esteemed laboratories, the Mount Desert
Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) and the Jackson
Laboratory call Bar Harbor home. MDIBL, founded, in 1898
performs research and experimentation in such areas as
marine biomedicine, marine molecular biology and
environmental toxicology. Jackson Library focuses more on
human research, focusing on dozens of disciplines including
many aspects of genetics and nerve-related study. More than
50 scientists are on the lab’s research staff.
The Astor, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt families may no longer
relive the pages of “The Great Gatsby” on a nightly
basis in Bar Harbor, but the town has attracted such notable
celebrities as Martha Stewart, Katharine Hepburn and Julia
Child over the last 20 years.
Residence in Bar Harbor is attainable for most as the
average income for a person in the town was just over
$24,000 according to latest census data. Forty-five percent
of the population is made up of families, with less than 5
percent under the poverty line.
Bar Harbor is easy to get to through various means. A little
more than three hours north of Portland, vehicles simply
make their way through the City of Ellsworth on Route 3. A
major airport, Bangor International, is less than an hour to
the west and locally, the smaller Hancock County-Bar Harbor
airport that features a couple of major carriers during peak
season. Cruise ships regularly make Bar Harbor a stop and
the high-speed Cat ferry brings people back and forth from
Nova Scotia on a daily basis from mid-May to mid-October.
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