- Dinner Theatres & Music Arts (3)
- Event Center (1)
- Golf (1)
- Hiking Trails & Gardens (3)
- Museums (6)
- Public Libraries (2)
- The Community Center (1)
Request! There has been a request to reorganize art classes. Any kind of art – painting (water/acrylics/oil), on canvas, paper, glass, etc. If you would like to help develop plans for art classes, please call or stop by. We’d love to rejuvenate this wonderful craft. Stop by Mon-Fri 10-2, or call 207-633-9876.
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We opened The Community Center on August 29th, 2015. Since then, it has become a valued community resource. We are open Monday through Friday, located in the Meadow Mall on Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor.
The Community Center is staffed, furnished, and run entirely by volunteers. We offer free tea and coffee, snacks, WiFi and a warm welcome to visitors of all ages. We also offer weekly classes, all free, and all taught by volunteers.
The Center has several rooms, including a welcoming lobby area, office space, an arts and crafts room, a puzzle area, a resource room, and areas to hold classes, meetings, and/or play cards or board games, a teaching room, and a computer area. Down the hall, we have an Exercise Annex and a Fiber Arts room for weaving, knitting, crocheting, sewing, and more.
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Located directly on the waterfront, the Boothbay Harbor Inn offers 60 comfortable guestrooms with modern amenities and views of the working waterfront. Most rooms have a balcony or patio, and sunsets are our specialty! The famous wooden footbridge is just steps away and provides easy access to the town of Boothbay Harbor with its shops, restaurants, galleries and boating activities. Our waterfront Events Center features inside and outside dining for groups of all kinds, with seating up to 100. Our Sunset Lounge is open most evenings and has seating inside, or outside around the waterfront fire pit. Amenities include free parking and free wi-fi. Pet friendly rooms available.
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Wednesday 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday. Offering 22,000 items to borrow, equipment including GoPros and a telescope, free WiFi 24/7, public computers, co-working space, and programing for children and adults alike.
Please visit see our very active events calendar for 2025. Check back often for updates and additions.
Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation is a 501 (c)(3) Public Charity with a stated purpose, “It will endeavor to maintain and enhance the traditional character of Boothbay Harbor and in particular, it shall pursue opportunities to protect working waterfront and public access to the water for the benefit of residents and visitors alike.” Please read our Facebook page to follow our progress.
Travel back in time to vintage Vacationland. Nowhere else in New England can you ride the rails behind an authentic steam locomotive surrounded by historic Maine buildings preserved in a recreated village, and view a collection of 60 antique autos. A unique location for weddings and receptions.
Boothbay Region Community Television is the only electronic media outlet serving the Boothbay region. By training volunteers, purchasing and maintaining audio/video equipment, we document the life of our community through the medium of digital video.
The Boothbay Region Garden Club supports our community in many ways, such as scholarships for YMCA camperships and college students entering environmental studies, beautification of public buildings, planting and maintaining of public gardens, among many other projects. Helping to make the Boothbay/Boothbay Harbor Region beautiful – many projects at a time. Please see our website for upcoming happenings.
The Society serves as the region’s memory center, housing local historical mementos, documents, and photographic collections. The society is located at the 1874 Elizabeth F. Reed house and its grounds, Fullerton Park. The museum’s six rooms contain artifacts and memorabilia that reflect the region’s colonial and coastal origins. Admission is free. Open year-round: Thursday–Saturday 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Have you seen our US Navy exhibit? This exhibit features local naval stories dating back to the American Revolutionary War. Stop by and learn more about the connection between the US Navy and Boothbay shipbuilding during WWI and II.
Non-profit organization conserving land in the Boothbay Region with over 30 miles of hiking trails. Open year-round, free of charge. Preserves include woodlands, wetlands, salt marshes, islands, significant bird habitat, historical and archaeological sites, and working waterfront. Trail guides available at 60 Samoset Road, our website, and at preserve kiosks.
Framed by dense woods and set in rolling hills overlooking a pristine section of the Kennebec River, the 1762 Bowman House is a rare survivor of domestic eighteenth-century elegance in a rural setting. Lawyer and later Judge Jonathan Bowman built the stylish house and furnished it with exquisite Boston-made furniture, Chinese export porcelain, and imported silver and glassware, creating a world of beauty and elegance far away from the rough reality and challenges of life on the Maine frontier.
In 1965, after decades of being empty, the house was saved by designer, historic preservationist, and entrepreneur Bill Waters and his partner, Cyrus Pinkham. The interior is a recreation of Bowman’s world, including objects original to the house and family pieces collected by Waters over his fifty years of stewardship.
The Carousel Music Theater brings good food, great music and lots of laughter to Boothbay Harbor. Join us for an evening of fun! Check out our website and call us for the most up-to-date information.
Two grand houses, both built in 1807 in very different styles with dramatically different stories. Visit these historic treasures and hear stories of the people who lived and worked in these unique houses. Castle Tucker tells the story of the elegant lifestyle of Judge Silas and Tempe Lee for whom the house was built and the story of the Tuckers, a prominent shipping family’s life on the coast of Maine over a period of 150 years. Built for shipping magnate William Nickels, Nickels-Sortwell House tells the story of the rise and fall of a maritime family, the hotel years when guests from Maine, across the U.S., and Europe stayed at Turner’s Inn and later the Belle Haven, and finally the Sortwell family who restored the house as a beloved summer home in the 20th century. Both house museums are open Friday – Sunday, June 1, – October 15 with tours given on the hour. Visit HistoricNewEngland.org for ticket and program information.
Dolphin Mini Golf, Shell Museum, Ice Cream Hut and Arcade. Nautical themed 18 hole miniature golf course. Home of the miniature golf 2008 US Open!
The Hendricks Hill Museum features an 1810 house with eight rooms of antique furniture. There is a beehive oven and assorted kitchen equipment, and antique toys in a child’s bedroom. Several additional rooms and buildings feature boats and boat models, ice harvesting and fishing equipment, genealogical material, firefighting tools and the old Newagen Post Office.
Shipping magnate William Nickels had this impressive mansion built in 1807 as a symbol of his wealth and status. His ships traveled to Europe and the West Indies, bringing back fine imported goods for wealthy Wiscasset households. William and Jane Nickels’ lavish lifestyle came to an abrupt end when Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo of 1807 devastated the East Coast economy by prohibiting international trade. By the time of his death in 1815, William Nickels was bankrupt, Jane had died, and their children were left with nothing but debt.
The Nickels’ house became a hotel managed by innkeeper Mary Turner for forty-four years. Known as Turner’s Tavern, it served working and professional guests while Mary also raised her family of nine children. After her death, a series of owners ran the hotel until 1899 when it was purchased by industrialist Alvin Sortwell as a summer home for his family. The Sortwells lovingly restored the house over a period of years and decorated it in the Colonial Revival style with fine antique furnishings.
The Nickel’s House is a National Historic Landmark and one of New England’s finest Federal-style houses.
This free public library serves the residents of the peninsula on Tuesday 9-4 and 7-9, Thursday 9-4 and 7-9, Saturday 9-4 and in July and August Wednesday 9-4. Morning coffee Tuesday and Thursday, pre-K story hour Tuesday at 10, book store, handwork group, book discussion group.
The historic Boothbay Harbor Opera House stage welcomes regional and national touring musicians year ’round. From International Grammy-winning stars to emerging artists, the performance hall is a perfect place to settle into for an evening of bluegrass, classical, Celtic, jazz, folk, R&B, and more. Historic bar room and gallery upstairs.
With gratitude,
Cathy Sherrill
Executive Director
Please beware of the multiple ticket scam sites that are selling fraudulent tickets to Opera House events.
Please ONLY buy tickets directly from our box office at 207-633-5159 or purchase them through our website ticket seller – instantseats.com
No other ticket seller is authorized to sell Opera House tickets, at any price. If in doubt, please phone our box office at 207-633-5159.
