Visit the Abbe: Hours & Directions

TWO LOCATIONS!

 

Abbe Downtown - Museum and Shop

2011 Summer Hours
Late May through early November

Open Daily 10-5

 

Winter Hours
Open Thursday - Saturday, 10-4

Closed January

 

Inclement weather policy: If MDI schools are closed, the Abbe Museum will be closed. If in doubt, please call ahead at (207) 288-3519.

 

Coming to Bar Harbor in the off season and want to know what else is open? Check out the Bar Harbor Merchants Association for listings of year-round business and events.

 

 

Admission
• Adults: $6; Children (ages 6-15): $2

• Includes admission to Abbe at Sieur de Monts Spring

• FREE to Native Americans and Abbe members.
Become an Abbe Museum Member.

 

Directions

Follow Rte. 3 from Ellsworth onto Mount Desert Island. Continue on Rte. 3 to downtown Bar Harbor. The museum is located at 26 Mount Desert Street (Route 3) across from the Bar Harbor Village Green. Free on-street and municipal parking available near the museum.
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Abbe Museum at Sieur de Monts Spring
2011 Summer Hours

Late May through mid October

Open Daily 10-5

 

Admission

• Adults: $3; Children (ages 6-15): $1

• FREE to Native Americans and Abbe members.
Become an Abbe Museum Member.
• Includes discounted admission to Abbe Downtown

 

 

Directions

(from Bar Harbor)

Follow Route 3 through Bar Harbor, and head south toward Otter Creek. Turn right at the Sieur de Monts entrance to Acadia National Park, just after the Jackson Lab. Follow the signs to the Nature Center, Wild Gardens of Acadia and the Abbe. From the Park Loop Road, exit at Sieur de Monts.

 

Park in the Sieur de Monts parking lot and follow the path behind the Nature Center up the hill to the Museum.