OUR LATEST NEWS
BCHC Community Connections
Have you tried geocaching? BCHC is excited to be a part of the Adventure Lab app!
BCHC is excited to be a part of the Adventure Lab app! Here’s a fun activity to do with Museum in the Streets!
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which participants use a mobile device to visit places at specific locations all over the world.
Nancy Platt, an avid geocacher, built an interactive, location-based walking tour of the 30 Museum in the Streets locations using a phone application called Adventure Lab. You navigate to a location, in this case a Museum in the Streets sign, where you are prompted by the app to answer a question once you are within 50’ of the sign. The answer would be found by reading the MIS sign and is then entered into the app. After a person visits all 30 MIS locations, they will be able to find the bonus geocache which is a tag in the shape of the City of Biddeford logo.
There are over 50,000 travel adventures worldwide and many in our immediate area. The app is fun to have while traveling or just to see what is around you in Maine!
Please visit this site and see what geocaching is all about! If you think it looks like fun, please download the free app and start your geocaching adventure with BCHC!
https://www.geocaching.com/sites/adventure-lab/en/
Our New Community Voices of Biddeford
The newest Voices of Biddeford are here and you don’t want to miss them!
Learn about our beautiful Biddeford City Hall during this video tour. Hear the fascinating stories of former Mayors Bonita Pothier, Michael Cantara, and Alan Casavant, as well as Aime Muyombano, Sam Smithwick, and many more!
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!
Thank You All For Your Support
Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center would like to thank all those who support us during our fundraising events throughout the year, from the Annual Appeal, our GotSneakers Collection, the Vacationland Raffle, to the Flatbread Community Bake Day, and more!
You are all the glue that makes what we do possible. Without you and your continued support, the mission of the organization would not exist.
Be sure to sign up for our mailing list today to keep up with all the news and events.