Special Events at PMM

Visit Penobscot Marine Museum for free while you’re enjoying Searsport’s Fling into Fall events. Free admission.

In collaboration with anodyne book shop, Carl and David Little will be at PMM for a meet and greet and book signing for their new book Art of Penobscot Bay. Art […]

Meet the spirits of those lost at sea - a ghost ship, a waterspout, Confederates, yellow fever, and a menagerie at the bottom of the ocean are just a few […]

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, […]

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.

Starting with a single piece of cotton rope, create your own sailors’ knot wreath! The first half of the workshop will be instruction and practice tying a flat Turk’s head […]

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 […]

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, […]

Sailors’ Valentines are a form of seashell art that sailors brought home to their loved ones. Most Sailors’ Valentines were made in the West Indies, on the island of Barbados, […]

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 […]