Special Events at PMM

Part I on Thursday, February 18th and Part II on Thursday, March 4th 
Sessions start at 6pm
$40/participant, including shipping. Register here.
Register by February 10th to ensure your materials arrive with time to start knitting before the workshop
For intermediate to experienced knitters

Tuesday, February 23rd
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

Friday, February 26th
Noon

Penobscot Marine Museum educators use high resolution images of our paintings to zoom in on all the details. See our paintings and other images as never before! Learn about the artist and the history and geography behind the subject of the painting. These programs start at noon on Facebook and are later available on YouTube. You can rewatch them or find ones you missed on Facebook or YouTube.

Tuesday, March 2nd
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

A Look into the Cunningham Collection
March 8th at noon on Zoom

Frank and Bert Cunningham of Washington Maine were real photo postcard makers working the inland portion of Maine's midcoast. Photo archivist Kevin Johnson will share their story and highlights from their collection.

Tuesday, March 9th
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

Lumber Schooners
March 12th at noon on Facebook

Fitz Henry Lane painted a schooner carrying lumber from Maine to Massachusetts around 1850.  We hear adventurous stories about a couple of lumber schooners that wrecked and a rescue attempt that goes very wrong.

Tuesday, March 16th
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

Tuesday, March 23rd
7pm
Free

Fight the midwinter cabin fever! Test your knowledge of the people, places, and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at our Maritime Media Trivia Night! Trivia will be Tuesdays February 23rd through March 23rd starting at 7PM, and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film. The game and instructions will be offered through Zoom, so make sure you’ve got your laptop, smartphone, or tablet all charged up. We hope you can join us for a weekly dose of trivia fun. Dust off that copy of Moby Dick and look around for that Jaws VHS – you have some studying to do!

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.