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BRIDGTON — The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity has been awarded two grants to provide scholarships to area children and to continue restoration efforts on its museum campus.
The museum has received a $3,000 grant from the George A. Ramlose Foundation Inc. that will allow 23 Cumberland County low-income children in kindergarten through sixth grade to attend Camp Invention, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The annual summer camp will is held at Stevens Brook Elementary School.
The museum was also awarded a 2021 Historic New England Herbert and Louise Whitney Fund Community Preservation Grant of $1,250. This grant supports paint and plaster restoration in the Nathan Church House, one of the oldest buildings in Bridgton. Each year, Historic New England awards one Herbert and Louise Whitney Fund Community Preservation Grant to a small to medium-size heritage preservation organization in each New England state. The museum’s grant was chosen from among 40 proposals from organizations doing creative and inclusive projects to advance understanding of the full stories of their communities’ people, places and history.
