The museum is housed within the restored Etz Chaim Synagogue, a turn-of-the-century house of worship. The museum is a venue for contemporary art exhibits feature established, Jewish-connected, and Maine-connected artists and rotate every eight weeks.
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Our current exhibitions are listed below.
May 7 – June 25, 2026
About This Exhibition
Ghanaian culture portrays portraiture as a meaningful way to honor subjects through a wide variety of media, reflecting the fluidity and movement of memory and history. With this exhibition, guest curator Myron M. Beasley introduces us to four contemporary artists from the Artemartis collective in Accra, each offering a snapshot of everyday life and the city’s social and cultural identity.
May 7 – June 25, 2026
About This Exhibition
This exhibition narrates a personal journey with a continued focus of the artist’s work on how the individual narrative anchors the collective, and vice versa. This series explores an emotionally charged landscape, juxtaposing and upending fixed and “righteous” perspectives to reveal the flexibility found in reoriented boundaries.
May 7 – June 25, 2026
About This Exhibition
This work, in progress as you see it, at first came to mind in the late 1980s when Green first saw the vertical panoramas of Jacque Henri Lartigue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About This Exhibition
Artist Juliet Karelsen visited Iceland in the fall of 2024 and was inspired to create a special site-specific installation for the Maine Jewish Museum in the stairwell. Come take a peek!
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