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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  • “Whoop and Drive ’er” – Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine by David Estey, Book Signing and Talk at Penobscot Marine Museum

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    On Thursday, October 16 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., David Estey will be at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport to discuss and sign “Whoop and Drive ’er” – Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine. “A humorous labor of love,” is how Estey describes his new illustrated memoir about colorful family members, friends, and characters he experienced while growing up in Fort Fairfield, Presque Isle, and Belfast, Maine. The memoir begins in Aroostook, but Estey attended the Rhode Island School of Design, travelled throughout Europe, was in the army, worked for the IRS, and lived in the South, before returning to Maine for a second career as an award-winning artist. Estey’s paintings will be on display for the event.

    Free for members and Searsport residents.

  • LAST DAY Museum campus closes for the season.

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Sunday, October 19
    LAST DAY Museum campus closes for the season.

    October 20, 2014 through May 22, 2015
    The Museum campus is closed. The Museum Framer and Museum Shop are closed for renovation until further notice.

  • PMM History Conference 2014

    University of Maine Hutchinson Center 80 Belmont Avenue, Belfast, United States

    Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light
    Saturday, November 1, 8:00 am to 2:30 pm
    University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, Maine
    80 Belmont Avenue, Belfast, Maine
    Register online or call us at 207-548-2529

    Conference Tickets:

    • $50 Museum Members
    • $60 Non-members
    • $50 Teachers and Non-profit Employees
    • $30 Students

  • Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live

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

    Penobscot Marine Museum and Colonial Theater invite you to Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live at Colonial Theater on Sunday, March 29, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Hear working seamen and women tell hair-raising real-life sea stories of amazing experiences on the water from fending off Somali pirates to putting out aircraft carrier fires. Each fast-paced story will be eight minutes long. Story tellers’ backgrounds range from the U.S. Navy to tug boat captain to commercial fisherman.

    $5,

  • Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service 2015

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Join us behind the scenes at PMM!
    Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service
    This Saturday, May 9, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
    Come volunteer at the Museum and help us get the galleries ready for opening day.

  • Opening Reception for 2015 Season

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

    On Friday, May 22nd from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm the public is invited to the opening reception for the 2015 season, which will be held in the newly renovated Visitors Center on the Crescent, 2 Church Street, Searsport.

    Free

  • Ralph Stanley: An Eye for Wood

    Penobscot Marine Museum’s Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery 11 Church St., Searsport, United States

    This moving documentary on the extraordinary life of world-renowned Maine Master Boatbuilder Ralph Stanley is “more than a life story,” says the Bangor Daily News, “it’s also a documentary about life on Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles, the Stanley family and how they shaped craft in Maine at the end of the twentieth century.” Ralph Stanley received a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship and has built more than 70 fine wooden boats including working lobster boats, Friendship sloops, lobster boats, yachts, dories, and rowboats. Ralph has also restored a large number of wooden boats throughout his long storied career.

    $5