Abbe Museum

Robert Abbe spent his summers on Mount Desert Island collecting Wabanaki artifacts from nearby shell heaps, and before he died in 1928 he labored — through a long illness likely caused by his work with radium — to establish a permanent home for them. The museum dedicated that same year holds the largest collection of Maine Native American basketry in any museum, and operates a second, larger location in downtown Bar Harbor. It is one of only two remaining private trailside museums in any national park.