Penobscot Marine Museum’s campus is currently closed for the winter. We’ll re-open in May 2026.
40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
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.
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.
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.
