Brick Store Museum

Imagine That: Three Centuries of Kennebunk Commerce Tour
2024-08-27 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
10:30AM, at Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St, Kennebunk. New tour! This walking tour explores Main Street and its commercial history over three hundred years. Stretches from the Museum down to the Mousam River Bridge. (about a half mile, 60 minutes, led by trained tour guide). $10.00 per person/$5 for members. Reserve in advance by calling 985-4802 or visit www.brickstoremuseum.org.

Historic District Walking Tour
2024-08-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
10:30AM, Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk. Explore the history of the elaborate and historic homes that line Kennebunk’s Summer Street neighborhood in Downtown Kennebunk. Led by Museum tour guide. $10 per person/$5 for members. Reserve in advance by calling 985-4802 or visit www.brickstoremuseum.org

Kennebunk Beach Walking Tour
2024-08-31 10:00 - 11:30 | Trinity Chapel, Kennebunk Beach, 4 Woodland Ave, Kennebunk, 04043, United States
This outdoor walking tour of Kennebunk’s Mothers Beach features eleven historic homes and an illustration of life at the beach in the early 20th Century. Tours depart from Trinity Chapel on Woodland Ave.
Kennebunk Beach Walking Tours are offered once monthly (June 29, July 6, August 3, August 31, October 12).
Private tours are also available. Please contact us at info@brickstoremuseum.org or (207)985-4802 at least two weeks in advance of your anticipated tour date to arrange a private tour.
Time: 60 – 90 minutes
Distance: Less than a mile on sidewalks and flat terrain.
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Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
Where to go:
This tour begins at the Trinity Chapel on Railroad Ave along Kennebunk Beach. Please arrive about 5 minutes prior to the tour start. You can pre-purchase tickets online and let us know you’re coming!
PARKING: Parking is available (with Kennebunk Parking sticker) at beach spaces; and alongside roads leading to the Chapel (as marked). Please pay attention to parking signage.
If the forecast on the day of your walk calls for rain, please contact the Museum in advance to make sure the walk is still scheduled. Email: info@brickstoremuseum.org OR call: (207)985-4802. If the walk is postponed, you will have the choice to reschedule or receive a refund.

Historic District Walking Tour
2024-08-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
12PM, Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk. Explore the history of the elaborate and historic homes that line Kennebunk’s Summer Street neighborhood in Downtown Kennebunk. Led by Museum tour guide. $10 per person/$5 for members. Reserve in advance by calling 985-4802 or visit www.brickstoremuseum.org.

Imagine That! Three Centuries of Kennebunk Commerce Tour
2024-09-03 10:30 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
New tour! This walking tour explores Main Street and its commercial history over three hundred years. Stretches from the Museum down to the Mousam River Bridge. (about a half mile, 60 minutes, led by trained tour guide). $10.00 per person/$5 for members. Reserve in advance by calling 985-4802 or visit www.brickstoremuseum.org.

Historic District Walking Tour
2024-09-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-07 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-09-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-14 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-09-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-26 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-28 12:00 - 13:30, 2024-10-03 10:30 - 12:00 and 1 more date | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Explore the history of the elaborate and historic homes that line Kennebunk’s Summer Street neighborhood in Downtown Kennebunk. Led by Museum tour guide. $10 per person/$5 for members.

Imagine That: Three Centuries of Kennebunk Commerce Tour
2024-09-10 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-24 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-10-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-10-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States

Carve Your Own Stamp - September Early Release Workshop
2024-09-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
9/11 Carve your own stamp!

Students will be carving their own “stamp” out of soft linoleum. We will then use our new stamps to print our own set of greeting cards!

*This is a drop off class*

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Ages 7+
$40
Instructor: Sarah Soleau

Open Late! September ArtWalk
2024-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join us at the Museum to kick start your Downtown ArtWalk! On the second Friday of each month, come to Downtown Kennebunk for a night of live music, local artists, food trucks and specials. Let’s celebrate Downtown! The Museum will be open for FREE ADMISSION from 5pm – 7pm.
In addition to showcasing our current exhibitions, we will be featuring two incredibly talented local artists for the September Walk, to be announced soon! Come enjoy the evening with snacks donated by our Presenting Sponsor Huntington Common!
Downtown Artwalks occur every month from June through September (on the second Friday of each month). Hosted by the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Kennebunk.
Learn more about the full event on the Chambers’ website!

Summer Art Block Party
2024-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join the Brick Store Museum in creating a community art project at the Kennebunk September Art Walk. Attendees are encouraged to work together with friends and family painting sections of the outdoor sidewalk that will lead from the Program Center through the Brick Store parking lot to the main buildings. This is a family friendly all ages event however all children must be accompanied by an adult. In addition lawn games and Gemini Cakes will be on site for additional fun.
Free fun for the whole family!

Adult Linoleum Block Printing
2024-09-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Learn how to transfer a hand drawn image to a linoleum stamp. We will then carve out our stamps and learn how to stamp using our relief surface on paper and textiles. Leave class with an understanding of the block printing process and a hand printed card and handkerchief.

Southern Maine Steampunk Fair: 10th Anniversary!
2024-09-21 11:00 - 16:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
It’s the 10th year of the Brick Store Museum’s Southern Maine Steampunk Fair! Join us on Saturday, September 21st (11am – 4pm) for incredible creations, futures, and fun! Explore the world of Steampunk with the New England steampunk community gathering here at the Museum for our 10th anniversary.
More information and activities to come!
Interested in becoming a vendor, performer, speaker or otherwise? Want to learn more about Steampunk? Please check out our STEAMPUNK FAIR page for all the information!

Please Note: We are aware that ticket emails are not being received by many purchasers. As we work to resolve this, please rest assured that if you do not receive an email confirmation of your purchase, as long as your card has been charged for the purchase, your name is on our list and you do not need to do anything further (except come to the event!).

Historic District Walking Tour
2024-09-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Explore the history of the elaborate and historic homes that line Kennebunk’s Summer Street neighborhood in Downtown Kennebunk. Led by Museum tour guide.

Spider Web Wreath Adult Workshop
2024-09-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Celebrate the spooky season with making a spiderweb wreath. Class will be a step by step process of how to build the web wreath using an premade grapevine wreath and string. All creations will be decorated with spiders and moss. This is a great opportunity for a fun creative night to kick off the Halloween decorating season. Bring a beverage of choice and make a night out of it!

Instructor: Liz Winter

Worldwide Day of Play with ACM & Nickelodeon!
2024-09-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join the Brick Store Museum and Kennebunk Toy Company to celebrate the Worldwide Day of Play with the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) and Nickelodeon! Explore learning through PLAY at three different stations on the Museum’s lawn with sensory play, game play, and arts & craft creation! Free admission, fun for the whole family to explore how play helps us all learn and share!

Jacqueline Schwab (Ken Burns' pianist) Concert | Partner
2024-09-29 16:30 - 18:30 | First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 114 Main Street, Kennebunk, 04043, United States
Noted Pianist Jacqueline Schwab in Concert in Kennebunk
Pianist Jacqueline Schwab, heard on Ken Burns’ Civil War and numerous other documentaries by him, will perform in concert at First Parish UU Church of Kennebunk, on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. Jacqueline will feature pieces from her Burns soundtrack performances and will also from her own work celebrating cultural diversity, inspired by her work with Ken. You’ll hear Irish and Scottish airs and dance tunes, spirituals, ragtime and other vintage American music, and vintage Latin and other pieces connected with American immigrants. Jacqueline will share stories about the tunes and speak about Burns’ unusual way of working with music—how he elicits emotive performances and uses music to amplify his messages and shed historical light on our lives today.

Jacqueline spins emotive musical stories out of the myriad strands in the American quilt, with the spirit of community music making at their heart. Her signature playing features in over a dozen of Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War and his recently-released Benjamin Franklin, as well as in other PBS documentaries, such as The Irish in America—The Long Journey Home. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton and (twice) on national PBS with the American Pops Orchestra, and she has accompanied Scottish singer Jean Redpath on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. She is well known to the traditional dance world for her groundbreaking playing with the Bare Necessities ensemble. Her recently-released solo album I Lift My Lamp—Illuminations from Immigrant America celebrates vintage music from American immigrants. Jacqueline graduated from New England Conservatory, majoring in piano improvisation. She grew up in Pittsburgh and has since lived in Boston and on Cape Cod.

Jacqueline’s concert is part of the “Concerts in West K!” series, produced by Mousam River Music in its new collaboration with the Brick Store Museum. Admission to the concert is $20.00 per person at the door. There is open seating for the concert on a first come-first served basis. Reservations are not required, but may be made via e-mail to paul.wells@mousamrivermusic.net.

Fall and Witchy Crafts - October Early Release
2024-10-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Celebrate the fall season with harvest and witchy inspired crafts. A walk through the grave yard to , a ghostly thrift store painting and magic potion all while enjoying a fall treat!
October 4th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Ages 7+
Instructor: Elizabeth Winter

Of Séances and Spirits - Supernatural Kennebunk
2024-10-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Of Séances and Spirits: Supernatural Kennebunk
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About this brand-new event:
The Brick Store Museum’s historic Kimball House will set the stage for guests to embark on a mesmerizing journey into the realm of the supernatural to discover the story of Mina Crandon, whose séances captivated early 20th century Boston. First-person historical interpreter Laura Rocklyn will portray Mina, also known as the “Witch of Lime Street,” in this entertaining and historically informed séance. Explore the lives of Harry Houdini, the escape artist determined to debunk fraudulent mediums, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the mind behind Sherlock Holmes and a passionate believer in spiritualism.
Surrounding the immersive Séance experience, you will tour the Museum’s 19th century buildings to discover local connections to the great beyond in the Museum’s collections; and discover Victorian Kennebunk’s love of contacting “the other side.” Indulge in heavy appetizers, learn your fate from a Tarot reader, see how Kennebunk’s Upper Square hosted its share of seances, and catch a reading of a local ghost story by actor Richard McGonagle.
Tickets include at-your-own-pace activities described above and a timed slot for your séance with Mina Crandon. This intimate experience will take you deeper into the rituals and beliefs that connected these extraordinary figures, bringing the mysteries of the Victorian era to life.
Important: Your ticket gives you access to all the evening’s activities, with a designated time for your séance. Don’t miss your chance to reserve your spot for an unforgettable journey into the unknown!
PLEASE NOTE: The Museum is aware of an issue that purchasers are not consistently receiving their order confirmations via email. We are working to resolve this issue, but in the meantime, if your card has been charged please know that you are ALL SET and on our list! Please simply check-in at the Event Desk once you arrive and give us your name.
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