Museum Blog & Digital Newsletter
Why Museum Membership Matters, and What’s Changing
When the Brick Store Museum’s Membership Program began during World War II, our founder Edith Barry wrote: Although 1941 has brought unprecedented uncertainties and cares, cultural enterprises are still considered […]
2025: A Year of Reaching Outward – Help Our Annual Fund!
2025 Annual Fund Drive The Brick Store Museum needs your support to connect more people with the past than ever before. Since 2019, the Museum’s audience has grown from […]
Cool Blast for the Past
Help Us Keep Our Cool This Summer❄️ Have you ever rented the community space at the Brick Store Museum? If so, you may know the truth—we’ve been operating without air […]
Summer 2025 at the Museum
A Summer Full of Creativity and Discovery at the Brick Store Museum The Brick Store Museum is excited to welcome the community and visitors alike to a vibrant summer season […]
The Ship “Neva” Painting Returns Home!
The Brick Store Museum preserves over 55,000 objects and archives relating to the history, art and cultures of Kennebunk and the surrounding communities. Nearly a year ago (March 2024), the […]
Sarah Junkins
Speaking a name and telling someone’s story is a remarkable feeling. Especially if that person is “lost to time” – just a name scrawled in a payroll book, or a […]
ART+Pride Mural Support Needed!
Mural in honor of Cookie Davis >> Art+PRIDE In Summer 2024, the Brick Store Museum (BSM) will be premiering the artwork of local trans-artist Cookie Davis (also known as Coleman […]
The Brick Store Museum is a BLUE STAR MUSEUM!
The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk and The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport announced they will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free […]
2024 Annual Fund Appeal
Dearest friends of the Museum, In 1884, a local woman named Hattie Dudley sailed on a Kennebunk-built ship captained by her husband around the Cape of Good Hope. She kept […]
Nominate Community Members for Exhibit!
Help create this summer’s exhibition! The Brick Store Museum is telling the stories of every day community members who helped to make Kennebunk what it is today. Through the lens […]