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.
October 8th
9am-4pm
Ages 5-10
$40/$30 member
When school is out for Columbus Day, what are the kids going to do? Drop them off at the Penobscot Marine Museum’s day camp all about fish! Through crafts, games, songs, and special exhibit visits, we will explore the fish and other animals living off the Maine Coast. Bring a bag lunch.
Questions? Ready to register?
Call 207-548-2529 or email jganskop@pmm-maine.org
October 11
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
PMM Visitors Center
$5 for members and $8 for non-members
October 18
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
PMM Visitors Center
$5 for members and $8 for non-members
Judy Chandler's grandparents ran the Blue Hill Bay Lighthouse. They raised twelve children at this remote lighthouse accessible by foot only at low tide or by boat. Using family photos, hear about her family's adventures and experience living in a lighthouse.
October 20, 2018
5pm-7pm
$5 per person
Footsteps walk across the floor upstairs when no one is there. Voices are heard, a presence is felt. There are stories from the people who work at the Penobscot Marine Museum about unexplained circumstances in the museum buildings. This is your chance to hear them. Are the ghost stories real? You decide. This special tour starts with museum staff sharing descriptions of spooky encounters at the museum and proceeds with a flashlight tour of the Fowler-True-Ross House. Discover the true stories behind the artifacts but beware – you may leave with a new story about a ghostly encounter. Tours will start every 15 minutes and will become spookier as the night goes on. Tours leave from the PMM Visitors Center. To reserve your time slot, call 207-548-2529.
November 19, 2018
Doors open at 6:30; program begins at 7:00
$12 in advance or $15 at the door
At the Colonial Theatre, 163 High Street, Belfast
Join Penobscot Marine Museum for an evening of sea shanties and a screening of the film Around Cape Horn.
For more information or to purchase tickets by phone, please call 207-548-2529.
Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8
4pm-7pm
Free admission
Celebrate the season with Searsport and the Penobscot Marine Museum! Experience the 19th-century Sea Captain’s house decorated for Christmas by local businesses. Shop for holiday gifts in the mobile museum store at the Fowler House entrance. Make your own Christmas ornament in Old Vestry.
Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8
4pm-7pm
Free admission
Celebrate the season with Searsport and the Penobscot Marine Museum! Experience the 19th-century Sea Captain’s house decorated for Christmas by local businesses. Shop for holiday gifts in the mobile museum store at the Fowler House entrance. Make your own Christmas ornament in Old Vestry.
Cipperly Good, Curator and Collections Manager of the Penobscot Marine Museum, presents “Maine in the China Trade.” This event is free and open to all. This presentation is hosted by the Belfast Free Library and offered as a free community event in in anticipation of the 32nd Annual Camden Conference –Is This China’s Century?, February 22-24, 2019. For more information, please visit www.camdenconference.org or call 207-236-1034.
PMM Photo Archivist, Matt Wheeler, and Deanna Bonner-Ganter, author of Kosti Ruohomaa: The Photographer Poet, will speak about Kosti’s life and the collection coming to Penobscot Marine Museum.
January 21, 9am-4pm
Ages 5-10, $40/$30 for PMM members
What was life like for the children living in maritime communities in the late 1800s? During this camp, children will discover daily life long ago along Penobscot Bay and on board ships at sea through games, crafts, songs, and (fun) chores.
Registration deadline is January 11th.
