There are many free things to do in Maine's third largest city. Visit the public library or one of the town's many museums.

Hudson Museum
(207) 581-1901; www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum
5746 Collins Center for the Arts
Hours: Mon- Fri 9 AM - 4PM - Sat 11 AM- 4 PM
- Over 9,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space with three galleries
- Free and open to the public

University of Maine Museum of Art
(207) 561-3350; www.umma.umaine.edu
40 Harlow Street, Bangor
Hours: Mon-Sat 10 AM – 5PM
- Hosts an annual calendar of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists and ideas
- Offers art camps for children lectures, special events, family programming, and educational classes and workshops for adults
- Remains the only institution owned by the citizens of the state of Maine to house a permanent fine arts collection
- More than 3,500 original works of art

Leonard’s Mills & Maine Forest Logging Museum
(207) 974-6278; www.leonardsmills.com
54 Government Road, Bradley
Hours: Daylight Hours April- October, Winter events available
Admission is free except for events; donations are accepted
- Dedicated to keeping alive the forest industry of long ago for the present-day citizens
- Represented by an authentic reconstruction of a logging and milling community of the 1790s
- Collects, preserves, and shares artifacts, documents, tools, and equipment, and stories relating to the history of the Maine woods - particularly the pioneer and lumbering periods.

Bangor Police Museum
(207) 947-7384 ext- 5752; www.bangormaine.gov/cs_ps_policemuseum.php
240 Main Street, Bangor
Hours: call to schedule
- Hundreds of authentic police items dating back to the 1700s

Chamberlain Freedom Park
Main Street, Brewer, ME
Hours: open 24 a day
- Sculpture park addressing the war hero's contribution at the Battle of Gettysburg
- A full scale bronze of him as well as a topography that re-creates the decisive site of his command at Little Roundtop battlefield.
- Includes an Underground Railroad memorial depicting an escaped slave

Paul Bunyan Statue and Park
Main Street, Bangor, ME
Hours: open 24 hours a day
- 31 feet tall, weighs approximately 3,700 pounds
- Reputed to have been the largest of Paul Bunyan in the world

Bangor Public Library
(207) 947-8336; www.bpl.lib.me.us
145 Harlow Street, Bangor
Hours: Monday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday and Saturday - 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Serves as a community center, offering meeting space, programs for adults and children, and monthly exhibits of art and artifacts
- Aims to provide material on all subjects likely to be of concern or interest
- Offers wireless connections to the Internet for wireless-capable laptops, handheld PDAs, and other wireless devices
- Over 500,000 books and other materials on site

Mount Hope Cemetery
(207) 945-6589; www.mthopebgr.com
Hours: Dawn to Dusk
- Recognized as America's second oldest garden cemetery
- 300 acres
- Final resting place for some of Bangor's, the state's and even the nation's most famous and infamous characters: Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, gangster Al Brady, and many notable people from Bangor and Maine’s history.
- Site for filming of the movie “Pet Semetery”
- Oldest Civil War monument in the country
- Home to many war memorials: Korean War Memorial, and two Civil War Memorials

Page Farm and Home Museum
(207) 581-4100; www.umaine.edu/pagefarm
Hours: Tues-Sat 9 AM-4 PM
- Learn about the industry, agriculture, economy, and home-life of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Home for the state's most important collection of farm technologies and artifacts of rural culture

For more ideas, check out VisitBangorMaine.com.

Teresa J. Shaw is editor of the Free in 50 States section and also writes about Southeast Michigan for Traveling Mom. Visit her blog and follow her on Twitter at @TeresaShaw.

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