Time travel with the Penobscot Marine Museum for a Roaring ‘20s Tea! Enjoy tea, sandwiches, scones, and sweets catered by Splendiferous Sweet Shoppe. Plus, there will be a costume contest, selfie booth, and time to socialize. Flappers and dapper Dans are welcome and costumes are encouraged. If you want to get in the ‘20s spirit […]

Join PMM for a presentation about the new book Working the Sea, written by Michael Crowley, and featuring 100 photographs from our National Fisherman collection.

Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited release of Working the Sea! Michael Crowley, a Contributing Editor and Field Editor for National Fisherman, started this effort during the Covid pandemic, painstakingly looking through and selecting around 100 photographs from the tens of thousands of photos that make up our National Fisherman photo collection. He then researched and […]

In this Member Monday program, education director Jeana Ganskop will explore the history of Maine’s fascinating lime industry. People took rock out of the ground, burned it into something new, loaded that something new into barrels onboard wooden schooners, and sailed them to places like New York City where the lime was used in construction. […]

Wayne Hamilton is well known around here for many things. He started the state's largest marine supply store (Hamilton Marine), is the Searsport Harbor Master, a PMM Board Member, and former Board President. He is also an accomplished photographer, and he has begun the process of donating his photo collection to PMM. Join PMM Photo Archivist Kevin […]

Our March Member Monday will feature our curator Cipperly Good.  While the Maine sardine industry was well documented with oral histories during its heyday in the 20th century, not much has been recorded now that the industry is no more.  Cipperly is changing that, doing listening sessions with former cannery workers and community members in former sardine cannery towns to […]

Our April Member Monday will feature Executive Director Karen Smith, who will offer insights into the American Alliance of Museums accreditation process. We invite you to join us to hear more about the […]

For years the sardine industry was a major enterprise and what many remember were the sardine carriers plying the coast bringing the catch to market. The early boats evolved into the impressive carriers of the late 1940s. Penobscot Marine Museum board president Jon Johansen will discuss the design changes. He’ll also share a number of […]

The sardine industry supported Maine coastal communities for well over a century. The workforce in canneries included thousands of women, even more than the number of men fishing for herring. This industry was a part of the economic, cultural, and social fabric of families and communities all along our state’s coast. Photo Archivist Kevin Johnson […]

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation funded a recent project to expand cataloging of 600 log books, ledgers, and customs records in the PMM collections. Join us to learn how the work was done and see examples of historical treasures uncovered.  Focusing on instances of emotion found in otherwise routine record books, the talk highlights the […]