40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].
August 8 at 11:00 am
Cost: Admission plus $2 per child. (Admission is free for Searsport and Stockton Springs residents and Museum members.)
Discover lobsters and the lobster industry through a reading of Dahlov Ipcar’s “Lobsterman,” visiting lobster boats on exhibit, trying out “Penny” PMM’s model lobster boat, and more!
Cost: Free
Join author Jonathan White as he explores sea level rise, tide-generated electricity, the relation of sea- and land-creatures (including humans) to the tides and the moon, how tides are slowing the earth’s rotation and making the day longer, and why scientists have been maddened by the problem of explaining the tides for thousands of years.
Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members
In 2018, we commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the end of the “Great War”. Historian Paul Biddle provides insights into what led the United States to enter the war and how that influenced the outcome of the war.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
5:00 pm
Bangor Public Library
145 Harlow Street, Bangor, Maine
Matt Wheeler will present an overview of the museum's photo collections, focusing on prominent holdings and more recent acquisitions. PMM is committed to digitizing its collections and publishing the images, along with available information, online for free public access.
As with other collections, PMM's photographs--numbering over 300,000--originated in the Penobscot Bay region, but their geographic scope is wide-ranging, since some of our photographers travelled the country and the world. The talk will reveal some of their stories, and of course be accompanied by a generous heap of engaging images.
Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members
Al Ross designs model plans for BlueJacket Shipcrafters Inc. in Searsport. He will discuss which designs inspire him the most and why.
August 25, 2018
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Free with Museum Admission
Ralph Stanley will be showing off some of the half models he has built and talking about how he uses them to build full size models.
Cost: $5 for members, $8 for non-members
Educational Passages’s Program Director Cassie Stymest explains how they use GPS-equipped models to spread ocean and environmental literacy. Classrooms around the world follow the models and explore oceanic phenomena.
Monday, September 24, 2018
6:00pm
Free (if attending the dinner, please bring a dish to share)
Farmington’s North Church
118 High Street, Farmington
Join Penobscot Marine Museum’s Kevin Johnson and Farmington Historical Society members for a Public Potluck Dinner followed by a program by PMM Photo Archivist, Kevin Johnson. Kevin will present Franklin County: The Postcard View; Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company”.
October 4
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
PMM Visitors Center
$5 for members and $8 for non-members
The Penobscot Expedition, during the Revolutionary War, was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. David Middleton, a costumed interpreter, will discuss the failures of the assault on Magabigaduce (Castine) and the consequences to the Mid-coast and Penobscot regions of Maine.
Saturday, October 6th
1pm-3pm
$5 registration fee
Penobscot Marine Museum Crescent
The model boats in Penobscot Marine Museum’s temporary exhibit, “Sailing Small: Small Boats, Big Ideas” are made of many different materials from paper to plastic. We challenge you to make a model boat out of a Pumpkin! Bring your model pumpkin boat to the Penobscot Marine Museum on Saturday October 6th to compete. PMM staff will judge entries using a point system based on size, composition, creative use of pumpkin, overall look, ability to float, and speed. The winner will receive 50% of the proceeds and the other 50% will go to the Penobscot Marine Museum to help support programming like this!
