LEWISTON – In celebration of annual National Museum Day, scheduled this year for Saturday, Sept. 24, Museum L-A is offering free admission.
Through a nationwide partnership with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C., and hundreds of museums across the nation, Museum Day offers the opportunity to explore an unfamiliar museum and to uncover its unseen treasures, or to tour a familiar museum to review a favorite collection, all at no cost.
In order to gain admission, go to the Museum Day website at microsite.smithsonianmag.com/museumday and print off the special ticket pass, which is good for free admission to one museum for the ticket holder and one guest. There is a limit of one ticket per household.
Museum L-A’s current special exhibit “Portraits & Voices: Shoemaking Skills of Generations” focuses on the expertise and craftsmanship of the shoe industry through oral histories, documentary photographs, videos and images from archival collections and from shoeworkers and their families. Additional exhibits focus on the lives and the work of local people in the textile and brick-making industries. Machinery, including a Jacquard loom, represents the process of textile production.
Museum L-A is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of work and community in Lewiston-Auburn. The museum is at 35 Canal St. in the Bates Mill Complex at the corner of Canal and Chestnut streets. Call 333-3881 for more information.
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