Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].
Each day will be focused on a theme and will include a variety of activities that get participants active and engaged. Sessions will include crafts, games, exhibit visits, music, and more. Campers will also assist in Penobscot Marine Museum’s daily Set Sail demonstrations. Camps will be held the weeks of July 8-12, July 15-19, July […]
Do you row your boat? Sail it? Does it have a motor? Young visitors will enjoy learning about boat basics with their families during this Junior Adventurers program, including making a paper boat and floating in it in our washtub. Get a little more out of your visit to Penobscot Marine Museum when you stop […]
After visiting Maine during childhood summers, writer and children’s author E.B. White eventually settled in Brooklin, Maine. On the 124th anniversary of E.B. White’s birth, join the Penobscot Marine Museum and Carver Memorial Library for an afternoon celebrating the author. Visit the FAINT ENDEAVOR, a sailing dinghy once owned by White, and enjoy the museum’s […]
The Saturday Sessions at Penobscot Marine Museum will feature a different local musical artist every week. Different ages, different genres, one person, or a whole band! Come once or come often to explore the musical culture of Searsport and beyond. Performances will take place Saturdays from May 25 through October 5 at 3pm. Free, donations […]
Each day will be focused on a theme and will include a variety of activities that get participants active and engaged. Sessions will include crafts, games, exhibit visits, music, and more. Campers will also assist in Penobscot Marine Museum’s daily Set Sail demonstrations. Camps will be held the weeks of July 8-12, July 15-19, July […]
What little animals get trapped in puddles as the tide goes out? You and your family can find out about how tides work and tide pool animals during this Junior Adventurers drop-in programming. Get a little more out of your visit to Penobscot Marine Museum when you stop by during Junior Adventurers! These weekly drop-in […]
Join in or just enjoy songs of the sea led by PMM staff and volunteers. Have a sea chantey or sailors’ song to share? You can lead one, too! Sea chanteying takes place every Thursday from May 23 through October 10, and starts at 4pm and lasts a half hour (or more). Great for all […]
Joanna Colcord’s seminal collection Roll and Go: Songs of American Sailormen was deeply influenced by her seafaring life. She was born in the South Pacific to a captain from Searsport, Maine and attended high school by correspondence in Hong Kong before earning a degree in social work. This presentation explores Colcord’s remarkable global childhood and its influence […]
The Saturday Sessions at Penobscot Marine Museum will feature a different local musical artist every week. Different ages, different genres, one person, or a whole band! Come once or come often to explore the musical culture of Searsport and beyond. Performances will take place Saturdays from May 25 through October 5 at 3pm. Free, donations […]
Each day will be focused on a theme and will include a variety of activities that get participants active and engaged. Sessions will include crafts, games, exhibit visits, music, and more. Campers will also assist in Penobscot Marine Museum’s daily Set Sail demonstrations. Camps will be held the weeks of July 8-12, July 15-19, July […]
