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Special Events at PMM


Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].


Sailors’ Knots & Friendship Bracelets — Teen Club

PMM Boat House 2 Church Street, Searsport, ME, United States

Get crafty with your fellow teens during weekly Wednesday sessions between September 20th and October 11th. We’ll have a variety of materials and instructions for sailors’ knots, friendship bracelets, and more!

$5

Volunteer Meeting for Twilight Tours

PMM Old Vestry 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

The Penobscot Marine Museum is looking for volunteers to portray the spirits of historic sailors, sea captains, and their families at our outdoor October 13th Twilight Tours. Memorize a script or improvise your own persona! You can have fun with it or make it creepy as you share tragic stories with local ties of those […]

Sailors’ Knots & Friendship Bracelets — Teen Club

PMM’s Museum Store 40 East Main Street, Searsport, United States

Get crafty with your fellow teens during weekly Wednesday sessions between September 20th and October 11th. We’ll have a variety of materials and instructions for sailors’ knots, friendship bracelets, and more!

$5

Fall Open House

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Join us for an open house featuring our 2023 photo exhibit, Sam Murfitt and Maine’s Working Waterfronts and our new permanent exhibit, Rusticators on the Water. Photographer Sam Murfitt has spent most of his life connected with the water—while making photographs, building boats, and working for fishing publications. For decades, he has photographed fishermen, their […]

Fling into Fall

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

During Searsport’s annual Fling into Fall, bring your phone or camera, grab a prop or costume, and get your photo taken in front of Penobscot Marine Museum’s photo backdrop. You’ll look like you’re on a 19th-century sailing vessel! Photo booth available from 10am to noon.

Member Monday – Sam Murfitt and Maine’s Working Waterfronts

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Photographer Sam Murfitt has spent most of his life connected with the water—while making photographs, building boats, and working for fishing publications. For decades, he has photographed fishermen, their work, and their boats, and in that work, has come to see their way of life as finite and fleeting. His images document that lifestyle and […]

Sailors’ Knots & Friendship Bracelets — Teen Club

PMM’s Museum Store 40 East Main Street, Searsport, United States

Get crafty with your fellow teens during weekly Wednesday sessions between September 20th and October 11th. We’ll have a variety of materials and instructions for sailors’ knots, friendship bracelets, and more!

$5

Twilight Tours

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

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 of the plots visitors may encounter on Twilight Tours. This is an indoor evening event with volunteer actors stationed throughout our historic house. Timed tickets […]

$8 – $10

Stories from the Spirits of Sea-Goers IV video

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Rescheduled — The people of Searsport and Penobscot Bay have a long history of going to sea. In letters, diaries, logbooks, photos, newspaper articles, and stories passed down through generations, they recorded their experiences. Quiet days, adventure, tragedy, and heroism each take their turn. This fourth installment of “Stories from the Spirits of Sea-Goers” features […]

Member Monday – To Peru in 2023 and 1863

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After returning to Maine from Peru, this summer’s Geiger Museum Exploration Intern Judson Thomas looked for connections within the Penobscot Marine Museum collection. He found four logbooks that mention Peru and he transcribed a portion of the 1863 logbook of the ship WELLFLEET kept by American captain, Henry S. Rich, of Bucksport, ME. In this […]

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