Penobscot Marine Museum and Colonial Theater invite you to Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live at Colonial Theater on Sunday, March 29, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Hear working seamen and women tell hair-raising real-life sea stories of amazing experiences on the water from fending off Somali pirates to putting out aircraft carrier fires. Each fast-paced story will be eight minutes long. Story tellers’ backgrounds range from the U.S. Navy to tug boat captain to commercial fisherman.

Join us behind the scenes at PMM!
Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service
This Saturday, May 9, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Come volunteer at the Museum and help us get the galleries ready for opening day.

Have you ever wondered if it is possible to build a boat in four hours?  On Saturday, June 6^th, 10:00 am at Penobscot Marine Museum, boat builder Tom Russell will demonstrate how to build a 12-foot Passy Skiff in just four hours.  This demonstration is part of the National Boatbuilding Challenge, a contest that will be held as part of the 6th Annual Belfast Harbor Fest on August 15^th at Steamboat Landing. During Belfast Harbor Fest, eight to ten teams of two people each will compete to build a 12-foot rowboat in under four hours, put it in the water and successfully row it on the Passagassawaukeag.  To form your own team, or for more information go to www.belfastharborfest.com or call 207‐338‐0244.

Penobscot Marine Museum historic photographs and over forty exhibitors, thousands of vintage postcards, old maps, and paper ephemera. For more information call 207-749-1717.

Come have your tintype portrait taken, or learn how a tintype is made. Tintypes are a type of photograph, popular in the 1860’s and 1870’s, taken on a piece of metal. Portraits will be made on a first come first served basis or you may reserve a time for your portrait by calling the museum at 207-548-0334 or 207-548-2529.

Artist: AgNO3 Lab is a mobile lab specializing in formal tintype portraits and event tintype photo-booth installations.

In memory of Penobscot Marine Museum’s beloved Board Member Dr. Mike Stein, and to celebrate his love of the water and boating, Jerri Finch has donated her beautiful painting West Fork to raise funds in his memory. The painting is oil on board, 9 1/2″ x 14 1/2″, and has a lovely wooden frame. Purchase your raffle tickets or make a donation in Mike’s memory online here.

The holiday season will be celebrated with Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum this year on Friday, December 4th and Saturday, December 5th. The ship captain’s house will be open to the public with each room decorated for a Victorian Christmas by community groups and businesses, including the Congregational Church Women’s Fellowship Group, Searsport Historical Society, Searsport Beautification Committee, Blue Jacket Shipcrafters, Bangor Savings Bank and Searsport Antique Mall. There will be refreshments, music performed by boatbuilder Ralph Stanley and his fiddle group, and volunteers from Searsport’s Carver Library will be reading from 19th Christmas favorites.

Owners and staff of area businesses are invited to a party and special preview of Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2016 exhibits on Wednesday, May 18th, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The museum’s theme Wish You Were here: Communicating Maine includes several exhibits; Historic Maine: A Postcard View, Acadia National Park: A Postcard View, and Maine: A Continuum of Place. Carl Little, author of Paintings of Maine, Art of the Maine Islands and Guest Curator of the museum’s exhibit Maine: A Continuum of Place will be attending, along with many of the artists represented in the exhibit. Photography Archivist Kevin Johnson will also be on hand to discuss the museum’s extensive historic photography and postcard collection featured in these exhibits.

Each business attending will receive a gift of five free passes to Penobscot Marine Museum. “We wanted to say thank you to all of our local businesses,” says Liz Lodge, the museum’s Executive Director. “These local businesses do so much for the community and for us, they help make this area vibrant.” Four of the twelve museum buildings will be open in this special preview: the ship captain’s house, Main Street Gallery, Visitors Center, and Merithew. The museum opens to the public on Saturday, May 28.

Edith Gawler and Bennett Konesni, who play banjo and fiddle and sing old-time music from Maine and beyond, will be playing at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine for a Members Reception in Main Street Gallery on Friday, May 20, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Edith grew up in Belgrade, Maine as a member of the legendary Gawler Family Band. Together Edith & Bennett have played Maine music across the U.S. and around the world. This event is free to Penobscot Marine Museum members. Museum membership is available online or by calling 207-548-0334 or 2529.

The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries
2016 History Conference
Saturday, November 5, 2016
8:00 a.m. registration 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. conference
Postponed to a date to be determined
University of Maine Hutchinson Center
80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, Maine

This year's History Conference delves into statement: Human innovation and technology have proven to be too successful for the health of our fisheries and out local ecosystem.  Our line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question: How did this happen and what do we do now?