Melanie Rosenberg, 11, of Boulder, Colo., uses gestures to show the fortitude of teenage lighthouse heroine Abbie Burgess during a living history performance last week at the Penobscot Marine Museum. Click here to read the full story by Abigail Curtis at the Bangor...
The Penobscot Marine Museum recently received two grants to make the job of archiving these pictures online a lot easier, and quicker. “We came up with the idea of using a high end 35 mm SLR camera to do that so it would be an instant capture. The grant allowed...
A playlist of five complete presentations from the 2011 history conference, consisting of: Boat Building in South Bristol, Maine, by David Andrews Comparative Study of Maine Peapods, by David Cockey Evolution of the Maine Lobster Boat, by Jon Johansen Friendship...
Peabody Essex Museum Maine shipyards turned out about sixty of the over 400 clippers built to satisfy the need for speed generated by events in the mid-nineteenth century. The 1849 California Gold Rush, the 1851 Australian Gold Rush, and Britain’s use of American...
A Video by Blake Hendrickson, Basic Explanations Studio Penobscot Marine Museum was instrumental in saving the Jacob Pike, a historic Maine-built sardine carrier. Sardine fishing and packing once formed important financial and cultural bases of Maine’s coastal...
Art Afloat – Slideshow of PMM-sponsored traveling exhibit of dioramas by Anne-Emmanuelle Marpeau aboard the vessel Sunbeam V. August 2011. Click here to view the slideshow
