Our Mission

Celebrate, preserve, educate, and promote Biddeford’s rich past and present historical culture, heritage, and diversity.

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Board of Directors

Diane Cyr – President

Alan Casavant – Vice-President

Paul Gagne – Treasurer

Robert Cyr – Secretary

Chuck Cote

Susan Deschambault

Mike Descoteaux

Claude Muhinda

Aime Muyombano

Jim Paquette

Be sure to watch this great video featuring historian, Charles Butler, as he speaks about Biddeford’s history and all it has to offer. 

A Collaborative Effort

Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center is working hard to be an inclusive organization for all within the community wishing to celebrate, share, teach and preserve the history, culture, diversity and heritage of the City of Biddeford, its people and surrounding areas. 

A cultural and heritage center has been the dream of many people throughout the years, but instead of just dreaming, we are working hard to make this a reality. Working together, we can do it as a community.  

Biddeford is a thriving community with a variety of ethnic cultures and diversity. It’s growing, changing and progressive, but much of the history and heritage is being lost, not shared, as the culture changes.

Now is the time to share, preserve, teach and celebrate all that makes Biddeford, its people and surrounding areas, so special.It’s time to save what is being lost and share with others. Now is our time and together we are doing it! It’s no longer “someday” or “maybe” or “if”, it’s now “when”, “soon” and “we’ll get it done”.

We hope you all join us on this journey and be an active part of our history and heritage, not another ” someday” or ” I wish” bystander.”

Thank you for your continued support! 

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Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working in collaboration with others for the good of community.

Preserving the Past.... Look how far we've come!

In the beginning……how we started.

The Archives and Collections of BCHC are growing thanks to a wonderful team of volunteers and under the great leadership of  committee chair and archivist,  Anastasia Weigle, Ph.D. 

Anastasia is a true gem and her leadership has been instrumental to the development of our archives and collections program as well as the building of a resource library with well over 1000 books in our database. We are truly fortunate to have her on board! 

Things actually looked much worse when this journey started, but with perseverance and a little hard work, things are looking much better. We are moving forward and hope to be in a position to share our collections with others soon. 

If you are interested in helping with archives and collections, please be sure to contact us via the email address, archives@biddefordcultural.org. We are currently looking for library help with organizing and cataloging the resource book collection.

And…. look at us today!