Brick Store Museum

Inside History Museum Tour
2026-01-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-01-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-01-29 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-01-31 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) and 8 more dates | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Take an Indoor Walking Tour This Winter!
It’s the Museum’s 90th Year! Explore the Brick Store Museum’s own history across five interconnected buildings, which range from 166 to 216 years old. Once home to businesses, organizations, and apartments, these spaces came together as the Brick Store Museum between 1936 and 1959.
Go behind the scenes to see highlights from the Museum’s collection of more than 50,000 artifacts while learning how these historic buildings have evolved over time, and how the Museum came to be. This guided tour lasts approximately one hour.
Tour ticket includes admission to the Museum exhibitions.
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Accessibility note: The tour moves through historic buildings and includes uneven flooring and staircases. The Museum’s second floor is not currently wheelchair accessible.

Honoring an Ancestor with a Visual Keepsake
2026-03-18 10:00 - 12:30
Would you like to create a visual record of your ancestor within the context of their time?
During a five-week journey, this class will guide the participant through transforming a vintage book into a one-of-a-kind story of an ancestor. Participants will blend storytelling, reflection and artistic expression. This process will combine the use of old pictures, old fabric, old lace, documents and keepsakes to develop a sense of time and place in which your ancestor lived. This is a unique way to preserve someone’s past while celebrating their life.
Deadline for registration: March 13
Schedule:
Wednesdays, 10:00am – 12:30pm
Starts March 18
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 15
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Christine Burgess
Teaching artist
Material list will be provided

Virtual Lecture: The Revolution with Dr. Alan Taylor
2026-03-30 19:00 - 20:00
On Monday, March 30th, the consortium of York County history organizations (of which the Brick Store Museum is a part) will be hosting award-winning historian and author, Dr. Alan Taylor, for a discussion on the American Revolution and its Maine connections. This program is free, and will be held on Zoom.
Dr. Taylor is the author of eleven books, with numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. After teaching collegiate courses in American colonial and Revolutionary history for forty years, he retired as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair at the University of Virginia. Most recently, he was a featured historian on the documentary The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Taylor has published eleven books, including William Cooper’s Town, which won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Pulitzer Prizes. The Internal Enemy won the Pulitzer Prize for American history and the Merle Curti Prize for Social History (OAH). American Colonies won the 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. The Divided Ground won the 2007 Society for Historians of the Early Republic book prize and the 2004-7 Society of the Cincinnati triennial book prize. The Civil War of 1812 won the Empire State History Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. In 2022, American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 won the New-York Historical Society’s annual Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History.
To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, museums and historical societies across York County have joined together explore the American Revolutionary experience.
The upcoming discussion with Dr. Alan Taylor is just the beginning of a range of programs being offered by individual societies across southern Maine. And for more information on this program, and more fascinating events you can expect, please visit the website for your local society or museum in York County.

Please RSVP below to receive the Zoom link for this presentation. It will be sent out on Sunday, March 29 to the email you list below (an email is required for us to send you the link!).

The Declaration of Independence on View
2026-07-30 - 2026-08-01
Maine Historical Society stewards one of 26 surviving copies of the Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration printed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, and sent to the Colonies to announce American independence. This year, the Declaration will travel across Maine to all 16 counties with great pomp and circumstance. The Brick Store Museum is incredibly proud to host the Declaration of Independence for York County.
Please visit during the Declaration’s three-day stop in Kennebunk to find activities, programs, our “Results of Revolution” exhibition, and of course, the Declaration on view.
Declaration Viewing Hours:
Thursday, July 30: 10:00am – 8:00pm
Friday, July 31: 10:00am – 5:00pm, with special 18th Century Dinner offered at 6pm!
Saturday, August 1: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Plan ahead!
Visitors are encouraged to reserve a timed-entry ticket via Maine Historical Society’s page HERE>>
