Special Events at PMM

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.

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  • Boat Building in Lubec

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    October 11
    5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    PMM Visitors Center
    $5 for members and $8 for non-members

  • Blue Hill Bay Lighthouse

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

  • Last Night at the Museum…

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    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.

  • Sights and Songs of the Seas

    Colonial Theater 163 High St, Belfast, ME, United States

    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.

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  • Victorian Christmas

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    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.

    Free

  • Victorian Christmas

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    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.

    Free

  • Off Campus Event: “Maine in the China Trade”

    Belfast Free Library 106 High St., Belfast, ME, United States

    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.

    Free

  • Off Campus Event: “Kosti Comes Home”

    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.

    Free

  • Kids at Sea/on Land in the 19th Century Camp [Martin Luther King Day]

    PMM’s Peapod Church St., Searsport, United States

    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.

  • Sailors’ Valentine Workshops

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Saturday, February 9th, 10am - 12pm
    Children, under age 7 with adult helper, $8
    Adults, $20

    Sailor's Valentines are a form of sea shell art, popular in the 1800s, when sailors brought them home to their wives, girlfriends, mothers, or sisters. Most Sailor's Valentines were made in the West Indies, on the island of Barbados, between 1830 and 1880, but production continued into the early 20th century. In this workshop, you can make your own Sailors’ Valentine to take home. Children will build the Sailors’ Valentine with a plastic base while the adult workshop will have smaller shells, a wooden base, and tweezers to easily set small shells. All materials and tools provided.