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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  • Brooksville, Maine: The Postcard View

    "Brooksville, Maine: The Postcard View"
    Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m.
    Brooksville Public Library
    1 Town House Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617
    Free

    Photo Archivist, Kevin Johnson, will present Brooksville Maine: The Postcard View; Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company” at the Brooksville Free Public Library. The slide show and talk will consist of a short film about the postcard company as well as the historical views of Brooksville and surrounding towns. 

  • Ocean Frontiers III Film & Panel Discussion

    The Strand Theatre 345 Main St, Rockland, ME, United States

    Ocean Frontiers III is a powerful film that chronicles efforts to plan for the healthy, safe, and sustainable future of our oceans. It explores the intersection of national security, maritime commerce, fishing, and recreation, plus expanding industries such as offshore wind energy and aquaculture, coupled with scientific discovery, and tells the story of how ocean planning helps us manage and balance all the uses of our ocean to keep it thriving for generations to come.

    The evening will begin with a light reception, followed by the film and post-film Q&A with a panel of local experts.

  • Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service

    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 6, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

    Come volunteer at the Museum and help us get ready for opening day. Great food, great people. See history up close. We provide the brooms and mops, you provide the elbow grease.

    For more information call us at 207-548-2529. We thank you and we look forward to seeing you here!

  • Celebrating Ralph Stanley

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Celebrating Ralph Stanley
    Saturday, May 27, 1 pm to 5 pm
    $1 museum admission all day
    Join us for an afternoon of boat talk and music as we celebrate the career and talents of MDI
    boatbuilder and National Heritage Fellow Ralph Stanley.

  • Catherine Schmitt, “Penobscot River Dams”

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

    Catherine Schmitt, “Penobscot River Dams”
    Thursday, June 1, 7 pm
    Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
    Cost: $8, $5 Members
    Join Catherine for a discussion of how dams and other environmental changes have affected salmon in the past, and how current efforts are working to restore salmon to their traditional spawning grounds.

  • The Meaning of Penobscot Bay

    Merithew and Fowler True Ross Houses Church St., Searsport, United States

    Thursday, June 15
    6pm to 7pm
    Penobscot Marine Museum, Merithew House

    Join 7th graders from Searsport District Middle School for an exploration of the role Penobscot Bay plays in the lives of individuals and communities in the region.

  • Glen Libby and Antonia Small, Caught

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

    Glen Libby and Antonia Small, Caught
    Thursday, June 29, 7 pm
    Caught is an account of the beauty, fragility and profound change that characterizes fishing, fishing families, and the communities who depend on them in the twenty-first century. Based in the tiny village of Port Clyde, Maine, but reaching globally, Caught chronicles the struggle to transform a way of life for all who depend on our planet’s bounty.

  • July-August: Waldo County Reads: Fisheries Non-Fiction

    Waldo County Libraries

    July-August: Waldo County Reads: Fisheries Non-Fiction

    At Waldo County libraries. Aimed at the armchair fisheries scientist, policy analyst and general consumer, join book discussions at participating libraries around Waldo County as we read about our nation’s fishing industry. Visit our website for the complete list of books, participating libraries, dates and times.

  • Netmaking with Jacqueline Davidson

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Netmaking with Jacqueline Davidson
    Saturday, July 1, 1 pm to 4 pm
    Free with admission
    Jacqueline Davidson is author of the book Nets Through Time: The Technique and Art of Knotted Netting. She learned her craft at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, and teaches the technique to others. She will discuss the knot used to make diamond mesh (used in basketball nets) and square mesh (used in tennis nets).