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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  • 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.

  • Fish Stories & Tall Tales Children’s Camp [Presidents Week]

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    February 18-22, 9am-4pm
    Ages 5-10, $195/$160 for PMM members

    From Paul Bunyan to Dad’s story about the giant fish that gets bigger with each retelling, Coastal Maine is rich with fish stories and tall tales. During this collaboration between the Penobscot Marine Museum and Neighborhood Arts, participants will start each day at the Museum enjoying stories, crafts, games, and music relating to tall tales. In the afternoon, the participants will cross the street to create their own performance inspired by fish stories and tall tales. On Friday at 4pm, families and the public are invited to attend the performance at Neighborhood Arts. Registration deadline is February 8th.

  • Who were the Hichborns?

    The Hichborn 10 Church St., Stockton Springs, ME

    Learn about the Hichborn family and their impact on Penobscot Bay with guest speakers and a photography display. Photos will be part of a silent auction. Appetizers and drinks provided by The Hichborn. All proceeds to benefit the Penobscot Marine Museum.
    There are a limited number of tickets available. Reservations are required. For more information or to make a reservation, please call Penobscot Marine Museum at 207-548-2529.

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    $40

  • Does it Float? Children’s Camp

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    March 15th, 9am-4pm
    Ages 5-10, $40/$30 for PMM members

    Participants mix science with arts and crafts and even a little history as they explore the basics of buoyancy. Starting with paper boats, participants will use their creativity to design their own model boats out of a variety of materials. Camp will also include stories, games, and opportunities to float the creations in a basin. Registration deadline is March 8th.

  • Off Campus Event: Readfield, The Postcard View: Selections from Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company

    Asa Gile Hall 8 Old Kents Hill Rd, Readefield, United States

    Sat., March 16, 2019 at 1:00pm
    Asa Gile Hall, 8 Old Kents Hill Rd., Readfield

    Johnson’s program will include the story of “Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.” and a slideshow of historical views of Readfield and its neighboring towns of Winthrop, Wayne, Fayette, Mt. Vernon, Vienna, Belgrade and Manchester.
    For more information Contact (207)377-2299 or readfieldhistorical@gmail.com.

    Free

  • Speaker: Object-Based Learning

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Thursday, May 23, 6pm-8pm
    $5 for members, $8 for non-members, free for teachers

    What can you learn from a ship’s painting, a 19th-century logbook, or a souvenir from China? How can these objects be used to teach? In this interactive presentation, PMM staff will discuss the benefits of object-based learning. Guidelines will be provided for using Museum artifacts as primary sources in the classroom and as starting points for storytelling.

  • Speaker: Maine in the China Trade

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Thursday, May 30, 6pm
    $5 for members, $8 for non-members

    Drugs, armed conflict, and free trade. Sound familiar? The First Opium War of the early 1840s, with British and Chinese fighting over the opium trade and Chinese sovereignty, opened up Chinese ports to the world. Maine's merchant mariners aboard Maine-built ships soon thereafter entered the Chinese import and export trade. The trade aboard Maine-built ships lasted into the turn of the 20th Century. In the meantime, Maine sea captains and their families brought back souvenirs, stories, and an economic understanding of China.

  • Vintage Postcard Show

    Searsport First Congregational Church 8 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    Organized by Brewster Harding
    Saturday, June 15, 8:30am-2pm
    $2/person

    The Brewster Harding Vintage Postcard Show includes thousands of vintage postcards, old maps, historic photographs, sheet music, and paper ephemera. Free appraisals for your paper collectibles will be available from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm.

  • Junior Adventurers: Knots

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

    Wednesday, June 19
    11am and lasts half an hour to one hour
    Included with Museum admission.

    Find out more about how sailors use knots and how we use knots in our daily lives. Starting with a reading of Look! I Can Tie My Shoes, participants will try out different sailors’ knots, make their own knot jewelry, and go on a scavenger hunt looking for knots around the Museum.

    Sponsored by Wayne Hamilton in memory of Loraine Hamilton.