WISCASSET — A free public preview of Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets project will be on view upstairs at the Maine Art Gallery on Saturday, from 5 to 7 p.m.

On display will be an exhibition of historic Wiscasset photos that have been discovered for this project and a sample Museum in the Streets panel. Maine Art Gallery is located in the Old Academy Building at the corner of Warren and Hodge streets.

A news release describes Museum in the Streets as follows:

Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets will tell the inspiring and engaging story of the community. The committee, a group of individual volunteers, has worked for the past year assembling a series of photos and written text that will be displayed on permanent descriptive panels to be installed throughout the village.

A tour map, available at each panel and at local businesses, will guide the walker from panel to panel on a fascinating self-guided tour of Wiscasset’s past. People will be able to start the tour at any panel they choose, or they can choose to follow the route described in the map. They can do it all at once, or do sections of the tour separately over time. Each panel will be located in such a way as to allow the viewer to see both present and past at each site. See where and how Wiscasset people lived and worked, and how things have changed over the past 200 or so years.

For more information, visit www.themuseuminnthestreets.com.