Victoria Mansion

10/29/2026

Happy National Cat Day! We'd like to give an extra shout out to our own feline volunteer Lilly. She is a Maine c**n cat who lives next door with her owner. She comes to the Mansion regularly to attend staff meetings, greet guests or just lounge on the back steps. Fun fact- we give the Lilly Award to a guide who has gone above and beyond during the year. They receive a Lilly pin in honor of their hard work.

📷 admiring her reflection in a mirror in the shop

10/28/2026

We are delighted to have been nominated for a Best of the 207 award in three categories! If the Mansion holds a special place in your heart, please vote for us. You can use this link- select "Things to Do" and then "Attraction", "Museum" and "Tour" to find the proper ballots. You can vote once a day through November 11th.
Thank you!

Discover the Best of the 207 contest, celebrating the local businesses, restaurants, services and attractions.

10/25/2026

Only one week left of our regular season! We will be closed after October 31st to prepare for the holidays. We will reopen fully decorated on November 27th.

10/22/2026

Tickets for Christmas at Victoria Mansion tours and events will go on sale November 1st!

10/20/2026

Halloween items in the gift shop are going fast, just in time to make a little space for Advent calendars!
Reminder that Victoria Mansion closes for the season on October 31st, so come in and see what's new.

10/16/2026

With the Mansion as your muse, join Audrey Minutolo Le for this inspirational workshop.

The Victorians believed that the spirits spoke in quiet whispers through mediums, and that ‘auto-writing’ could channel messages from the beyond. The Victorians’ methods may not have been so much about channeling the spirits as they were about bypassing the conscious mind to tap into the deeper unconscious. With the historic Victoria Mansion as our muse, we will listen — not to the whispers of the spirits — but to a bit of Baroque music and the whispers of our hearts. Bring your curiosity about the writing process and spend an afternoon as the Victorians did: tapping into your deepest questions and truthful self-expression to receive messages you didn’t know were possible.

Audrey Minutolo Le teaches writing and literature at the University of Maine. Her work has been published by Down East, Persimmon Tree, the Audubon Society, and The Poet’s Corner, amongst others. Audrey offers individual and group writing workshops at Highland Grove Arts, nestled in the lakes and mountains region in Bridgton, Maine.

Tickets available on our website. victoriamansion.org/event/all-souls-writing-workshop/

📷: The Muse of Literature as depicted in the Victorian Mansion Reception Room.

10/13/2026

We are honored to be the recipients of a Preservation Award from Greater Portland Landmarks! Tickets are now available for their Preservation Awards Bash at Portland's historic Mariner's Church on October 27th. See their link for more info about this fabulous evening.

Tickets are ON SALE now for the Preservation Awards Bash! 🎉

Join us at the historic Mariner's Church on October 27 for live 1920s jazz from the Ragtime Destroyers, great food & drinks, and a night celebrating the people and places keeping Portland's story alive.

This year we're honoring: Rob Wiener, David Lloyd, Woodhull, ChoralArt, Greenhut Galleries, Victoria Mansion & East Brown Cow.

🎟️ Tickets: $125 — link in bio
📅 Tuesday, October 27 | 5:30–8:30 PM
📍 Mariner's Church, 368 Fore Street

10/13/2026

Museums are a great rainy-day activity! We recommend booking your tickets in advance in order to be able to visit at your chosen time. We also ask that you arrive five minutes before your tickets time to check in.
https://victoriamansion.org/visit-us/

10/12/2026

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we recognize that Portland is in the homeland of the Wabanaki, the People of the Dawn. To learn more, we encourage you to visit Abbe Museum in person or online!

10/12/2026

We love seeing all the work that Mansion guide Erich has been doing for our friends over at Greater Portland Landmarks!

GPL had the pleasure of working with intern, Erich Chase last month. Erich completed a focused compilation and analysis of GPL walking tours, past and present as part of an effort to update our offerings and make them more accessible to the public. We asked him to tell our supporters a little about himself and the work he’s done here.

“I have a passion for local history and archaeology, and am a long-time volunteer turned paid guide at the Victoria Mansion here in Portland. I am about to begin my second year of graduate school (Master of Arts in Museology program at the University of Washington) and received a BA in Archaeology (Latin America) degree from Lycoming College in 2024.

“At Greater Portland Landmarks, I have been learning a lot of information relating to Portland’s various neighborhoods (along with their architectural styles). I have been working hard at consolidating walking tour information, as well as copying information from over 20 tours (finished and unfinished) tied to GPL into an Excel spreadsheet. Look for a future social media post where I’ll share one of my favorite houses in Portland.”