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Help Wanted: Museum Store Associate

  Seashore Trolley Museum seeks a part-time and full-time Museum Store Associate to join our staff team. The starting pay is $16/hour (part-time) and $18/hour (full-time), and shifts are available on Tuesdays-Sundays between 9AM-6PM. The position is seasonal beginning now through December. Position Responsibilities: We are a fun, high-energy nonprofit organization, striving to create the […]

Join Us August 19 for Members Day & Open House

  Participate in our 2023 Members Day and Open House at Seashore on Saturday, August 19th from 9:30AM-4:30PM. Admission is free for ALL. We love our members, and this is the day we set aside to show it! It’s a great day to become a member, too! 9:30AM: Free donut holes & coffee available, Visitors […]

Join Us this Saturday for Members Day & Open House

Admission is free for all members and guests this Saturday, August 19th. We love our members and this is the day we set aside to show it! Check out our action-packed schedule: 9:30AM: Free donut holes & coffee available, Visitors Center Trolley Fare 9:30AM: Museum Store opens 9:45AM: Trolleys begin operating 10AM: New Model Railroad Building behind-the-scenes tour led by Katie Orlando, Executive […]

Now Hiring: Museum Store Associate

  Seashore Trolley Museum is having a great season and we seek to add another part-time Museum Store Associate to our staff team. The starting pay is $16/hour, and shifts are available on Tuesdays-Sundays between 9AM-8PM. The position is seasonal (March-December). Position Responsibilities: We are a fun, high-energy nonprofit organization, striving to create the best […]

In Memory of Donald G. Curry

It is with tremendous sadness that we share news of the passing of our Restoration Manager Donald G. Curry. Donald dedicated 70 years of his 87 years of life to Seashore Trolley Museum and the trolley preservation movement. During this incredible tenure, Donald was known as one of the nation’s foremost authorities on streetcar restoration, […]

Seashore Trolley Museum President & CEO Honored with Building Naming

  During the Seashore Trolley Museum’s recent Annual Meeting, museum leaders and members recognized one of the museum’s longest serving leaders, President & CEO James D. Schantz by renaming one of the museum’s trolley display carhouses in his honor.   The James D. Schantz Highwood Carhouse is home to 20 preserved and restored transit artifacts […]

Seashore Trolley Museum Named 2023 Blue Star Museum

  Seashore Trolley Museum will join museums nationwide again this season in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. The 2023 program will begin on Armed Forces Day (Saturday, May 20) and ends on Labor Day weekend (Sunday, September 3). Find […]

All Aboard for our 2023 Season!

  All aboard! We are opening for our 84th season on Saturday, May 6th from 9:30AM-4:30PM and will be open weekends in May, and Wednesdays-Sundays from June 1st through Halloween.   Experience history in motion on interactive trolley rides on the museum’s private heritage electric railroad, which once served as a portion of Maine’s Atlantic […]

Volunteer to Operate Trolleys this Season!

Sign-ups are now open for our 2023 Railway Operations Training! Volunteer to operate trolleys for our guests this season at the world’s first and largest electric railway museum.   The first part of our new operator training is four, 2-hour Zoom classes. We are offering these classes on either Mondays or Tuesdays. Group one classes […]

Model Railroad Building Update

  Seashore Trolley Museum’s Model Railroad Building Construction Underway   Seashore Trolley Museum recently broke ground on what now will be a $3.2M construction project to exhibit one of Maine’s largest HO-scale railroad layouts. The model railroad depicts the Maine Central Railroad in the 1940s-60s and is being relocated from Jonesport, Maine thanks to a […]