Special Events at PMM


Lectures, Workshops, Events
You’re invited to join us at Penobscot Marine Museum for our ongoing series of special events! For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or jganskop@pmm-maine.org.


  • Maine Memories: A Vintage Picture Postcard Tour, Book Signing & Talk

    Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery 11 Church St., Searsport, United States

    With authors Michael Closen and John Brunkowski
    Thursday, August 25, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
    Admission free.

    Hear the fascinating story of this impressive collection of over 350 postcards of the lighthouses, harbors, ships, railroads, wildlife, forests and lakes of Maine.

    Free
  • Maine On Glass, Book Signing & Talk

    Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery 11 Church St., Searsport, United States

    With authors Earle Shettleworth, Jr., William H. Bunting, and Kevin Johnson
    Thursday, September 22, 7 pm, Carver Memorial Gallery, 11 Church St.
    Admission free.

    Hear fascinating in-depth historical commentary on the Maine photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum’s Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection. Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth, Jr., Maine historian and author William H. Bunting, and Penobscot Marine Museum Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson collaborated on this book about the unique Belfast-based postcard company of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Maine On Glass is published by Tilbury House.

    Free
  • Gillchrest Papers: A Treasure in the Attic with Author Renny Stackpole

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    Book Talk and Signing
    Thursday, July 27
    7pm
    Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
    Free

    PMM Director Emeritus Renny Stackpole returns to Penobscot Marine Museum to share his latest research, which he has just published in the book "The Gillchrest Papers". Tucked away in his attic was the source of his research, the family letters and business papers of the Gillchrests, a Thomaston, Maine seafaring family who built, managed, and sailed ships to distant ports around the world from 1830-1870. Renny will be signing books after his talk.