14 Colonial Way
Machias, ME 04654
(207) 255-6930
Burnham Tavern Museum Website »
Built in 1770, the Burnham Tavern Museum is the oldest building in eastern Maine, on the National Register of Historic Places and one of twenty-one homes with most significance to the American Revolution. Docents in period dress conduct entertaining and educational tours.
Plans to capture the armed British vessel Margaretta in the first naval battle of the American Revolution were made in the Tavern, and the wounded were afterward nursed here. Many items in the Tavern are associated with that battle and the patriots who fought it.
Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.
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