One of the country's best small regional museums, the Farnsworth houses a collection spanning 200 years of American art. Artists who have lived or worked in Maine are the museum's definite strength – look for works by the Wyeth family (Andrew, NC and Jamie), Edward Hopper, Louise Nevelson, Rockwell Kent and Robert Indiana. Exhibits on the Wyeth family continue in the Wyeth Center, in a renovated church across the garden from the main museum (open in summer).
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25.5 MILES
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1.59 MILES
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9.3 MILES
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Center for Maine Contemporary Art
0.06 MILES
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27 MILES
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1. Center for Maine Contemporary Art
0.06 MILES
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0.12 MILES
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5. Owls Head Lighthouse
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8. Camden Public Library
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