You can find the Maven Projects pane by going to Help > Find Action or press Ctrl + Shift + A and type in "Maven Projects". However I can't see it anywhere in the elaborate menu's.
It's a bit late, but I had the same problem with missing sidebars. At least in IDEA 2017.3 there is an icon on the bottom left of the screen that toggles the sidebars. That's how I got it back.
I had the same problem with a maven project, the tab wasn't showing up and even in the View->Tool windows menu, there was no maven item.
After searching the internet i could not find a solution but then i looked in Intellij idea
and noticed a Even Log showing a number in a red circle, i clicked it and then read an error message:
Non-managed pom.xml file found:
Add as Maven Project
check out solution proposed by invzbl3, It might help.
Make sure your Maven plugin is enabled as well. In my case, it was disabled for an unknown reason. To enable it: Settings → Plugins → Installed (Scroll down to Bundled section)
if you have a pom file in your project, right click the file, click "add as maven project"
This got it back for me. None of the other solutions worked. I had no warnings for unmanged poms, toggling toolbars did not help and the maven option just where it should be anywhere!
Make sure that the home directory of the project is correct. I was creating Intellij project one level above the actual maven project folder and that's why the maven tool window wasn't showing.
None above helped.
In my case I had to ad Java SDK. It keeps disappearing for some reason.
Right click on project folder -> Open Module settings -> Project in this window define SDK under SDK:
No Need to do any settings i have attached the image of intelij in that marked area click on that multi window suport then you will be able to access the panels for all