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PMM’s current high school intern Haylie was recently looking through old Searsport yearbooks and discovered an article from 1954 about a school visit to Penobscot Marine Museum. The article concluded saying, “The visit to these buildings was most interesting and helped us to understand better the sailing days of Searsport and surrounding towns.” Read the whole article here.
RSU 20 (Searsport and Stockton Springs) students still come to Penobscot Marine Museum every year and PMM staff visit their classrooms, too. In February, PMM Education Director Jeana Ganskop presented to nearly all of the K-6 students! As part of the 6th grade social studies ancient Egypt unit, the students created a museum of ancient Egyptian artifacts. Jeana talked to the students about museum best practices for object handling and giving tours to help prepare them for their community open house. Jeana also went into the elementary school physical education classes to talk about historic games and toys - with a little maritime history squeezed in!
Last year, PMM welcomed around 1,000 students and chaperones on field trips. This year, we’re hoping for even more. When students come to PMM, they participate in the Set Sail demonstration, engage with art, search for items on scavenger hunts, make related crafts, evaluate primary sources, and discover connections between our maritime past and today. During the last few years, PMM has offered low cost or no cost field trips plus a busing scholarship to make the field trips more affordable for schools. Students come from down the street, around the region, and up to 1.5 hours away! We estimate that each field trip costs PMM an average of $800. Help us keep free field trips at PMM by donating today!
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