Tate House Museum

Join us on Oct 29 for our Annual Fall Fundraiser!

The evening begins with a w**e and b**r reception (at 5 pm) followed by a dinner buffet (at 6 pm) and an engaging program focused on our 250th anniversary summer exhibit "To Be or Not to Be: American or British?" Dressed performers will debate the perspectives of Stroudwater and other local Patriots and Loyalists with audience participation!
FMI: Visit tatehouse.org
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Join us for ColoniAle 2026 on Sat Oct 10, 3- 6 pm (ticketed tours at 3 pm or 4:15 pm)

250 years! 2 Beers! 3 Cheers at Tate House Museum. Visit tatehouse.org for tickets.

Indigenous writer and artist Mihku Paul will share her program titled “Wikkihke- She Likes to Plant Gardens” in the Tate House backyard and garden on Thurs Aug 20 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. She writes

“Plants are completely essential to the health of ecologies and have long been
used by Maine’s “Waponahki” (Wabanaki) tribes for food and medicine and weaving supplies. Indigenous plant medicine has been practiced for centuries. There are still plants and shrubs used for nourishment and good health.”

Join Mihku as she talks about some of these plants, and shows participants how to prepare and enjoy a marvelous summer drink made from wild foraged plants, elderberry, and preserved rose hips. She’ll cover at least 3 plants, prepare summer tea, and a delicious fruit drink loaded with vitamin C and answer questions.

Mihku Paul is a Wolastoqiyik (aka Malecite or Maliseet) writer and visual artist born and raised traditionally on the Penobscot River in Maine. She holds a B.A. in communication and human development and received her MFA in 2010 from Stonecoast. Mihku has taught poetry and fiction writing to diverse groups including Waponaki Writers Project, Rise Up! and at the Maine Women Writers Collection.

Tickets will be available at the door and are $18 for the general public, $12 for children 12 and under, $15 for THM members, and $40 for a family of four (2 adults and 2 children).

Bring your own chairs or blankets for sitting in the yard. Some chairs are available- first come, first served. Picnics are welcome! FMI visit tatehouse.org or contact Director Holly K. Hurd at [email protected].

Join us this 4th of July to commemorate our country's 250th Anniversary at the Stroudwater Cemetery in Portland, where the VFW will host a wreath-laying ceremony for the Revolutionary War veterans buried there.

Tate House Museum will offer ticketed tours that highlight those in the Stroudwater neighborhood who served In the Revolution and supported the cause. Tours offered before (9:00 am) and after (11:00 am) the ceremony.

For tickets visit tatehouse.org or scan the QR code.

Visit us on July 3 from 10 am- 4 pm to meet and talk to colonial reenactors Mark Rohman and Anette Rodrigues who will be interpreting a patriot soldier with accoutrements and a Loyalist wife encamped with men during the war. FREE with a paid guided tour of Tate House. Members FREE, others $15 adults, $10 children 12 and under.

Exhibit Opening Reception, July 1, 4:30- 6:30 pm To Be or Not to Be: American or British?

Our 250th exhibit considers the activities of Tate family members – father George and his four adult sons, Samuel, George, William, and Robert, each of whom responded differently and equivocally to the American cause. How the Tates negotiated their place, possessions, and degrees of loyalty to the British Crown tells the story of the difficult choices people were forced to make during the challenging revolutionary period in colonial Portland. James Means, a staunch Patriot who became the Tates’ neighbor and whose 1797 house still stands opposite Tate House, will represent another perspective. Exhibit included with regular guided house tours in 2026. Members FREE, all others $15.

Today is the last day to take a tour of the Tate House and see our wonderfully redesigned gift shop! Tours today at 1, 2, and 3PM. We hope to see you here!

Our HOLIDAY-themed Gift shop with lots of new, colonial gifts will be open Dec 14-20 12- 4 pm. Discounts for THM members! We are also offering tours of Tate House, decorated for the season- 3 tours each afternoon starting at 1, 2 and 3 pm.

Interpreter Bill Gousse will show you how colonial men dressed in the 18th century, what they wore beneath and at home- new this year- men's pockets!
Come see him and all we have in store tomorrow for Colonial Christmas. Tours starting at Noon and ending at 4pm with tickets available at tatehouse.org or at the door.

Tickets going fast! Get yours for A Colonial Christmas -- see full schedule. Don't miss this once a year Colonial Christmas event! Find out if the Tate family were Loyalists or Patriots. Can't make it? We will be open for holiday tours (Gift shop open too!) the following week, Dec 14- Dec 20, 12-4 pm. For details visit tatehouse.org