40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].
Bark JOHN CARVER & Looking Back
March 26th at noon on Facebook
We will examine Waldo Pierce’s 1960 painting “Carver Yard with the JOHN CARVER on the ways” and explore how twentieth-century artists, authors, and families remembered Searsport’s shipbuilding heyday.
April 9th at noon
Free on Facebook
Belfast in the 19th century- Fires, Treason, and Whist parties? We look closely at a lithograph of Belfast from 1877, find buildings that are still here today, and explore some of daily life in the second half of the 19th century in Penobscot Bay, Maine.
April 12th at noon
Free for members on Zoom
The ship S.F. HERSEY had a colorful history, most notably losing three Searsport captains in less than three years. Even the delivery of the ship's planking and spars for building ended in disaster, with the delivery vessel sinking in a gale and the captain Forrest Treat losing appendages to frostbite. He is pictured above with two of his canes. Come learn more at April's Member Monday on April 12 at noon.
April 21st at 11am on Zoom or on your own anytime
$10/kit (up to 3 kids) including shipping, Register here.
Register by April 15th to ensure materials arrive before Zoom workshop.
April 23rd at noon
Free on Facebook
The oil painting of the schooner NANCY HANKS was created by Antonio Jacobsen in 1918, soon after it was launched. Most of the ship’s portraits we have explored during Peek into Paintings are from the mid to late 1800s. Why was there a brief resurgence in wooden shipbuilding in the late 1910s? Find out more by joining us on Facebook Live at noon!
May 10th at Noon on Zoom
Free for members
Join PMM Digital Curator Matt Wheeler as we return to an interview with Jeff Dworsky. In this conversation, Dworsky talks about his foresightful photographic document of the Maine fishing village where he landed as a teenager and which became his home.
May 13th at 6pm on Zoom
Free, register here.
Join PMM Education Director Jeana Ganskop and Museum Educator/Lead Interpreter Sarah Cole as we discuss and share methods for using artifacts and primary sources to bring history to life.
Peek into Paintings - Shipbuilding
May 14th at Noon
Free, premiering on Facebook & YouTube
Penobscot Bay's economy in the 19th century was based on shipping, shipbuilding, and getting the lumber to build the ships. Sam Manning's detailed illustrations take us through the basics of the shipbuilding process. We look at a couple of shipyards on Searsport Harbor- plus, one Mainer who used enslaved African Americans to enrich himself…
May 20th at 6pm on Zoom
Free, register here
Kosti Ruohomaa’s Beloved Maine, a slideshow and lecture by Deanna Bonner-Ganter, focuses on Rockland, Maine photographer Kosti Ruohomaa’s Maine photographs. Deanna Bonner-Ganter is the perfect guide to explore Ruohomaa’s work and legacy. She spent more than 30 years researching his life and work. In 2016, her definitive biography, Kosti Ruohomaa Photographer Poet was published by Downeast Books. She recently retired from the Maine State Museum in Augusta where she spent her career as a curator.
May 27th at 6pm on Zoom
Free, register here
What is hidden in the Penobscot Marine Museum archives, and how can you explore them? With records from sailors, captains, fishermen, shipbuilders, and other Penobscot Bay residents over the past 250 years, there's a lot here. Join us for a look at the letters, diaries, logbooks, and other manuscripts in PMM's collection and hear some of the great stories we uncovered during this winter's cataloging project. Click here to register.
