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News at the Museum

To receive press releases or for more information, contact Sabrina Kettell, skettell@pmm-maine.org or 207-548-2529 ext. 216.

November 2025 Newsletter

November 2025 Newsletter

Searsport unveils a special Seaport Captains statue, plus our photo collections are once again available online, and we’ve expanded our POP studies program through 2026.

October 2025 Newsletter

October 2025 Newsletter

SardineFest is October 4 at the museum! Plus, craft workshops are scheduled for November and December, and the museum’s final day of 2025 is coming right up!

September 2025 Newsletter

September 2025 Newsletter

Join us for monthly sea chantey singalongs, plus SardineFest is coming up, and our schedule for Twilight Tours has been announced.

August 2025 Newsletter

August 2025 Newsletter

Join our “Sip & Stamp” Sardine Can Printmaking Party, plus special continuing education classes are coming up this fall, and more Eastern Illustrating negatives have been unearthed.

July 2025 Newsletter

July 2025 Newsletter

Free admission for kids on Wednesdays! Plus: and E.B. White open-mic night, a call for empty sardine tins, and meet our new interns!

June 2025 Newsletter

June 2025 Newsletter

Monthly singalongs start, oral histories with Cipperly, and Searsport’s stories of the seas!

May 2025 Newsletter

May 2025 Newsletter

Penobscot Marine Museum gets ready for opening day on May 23! The spring speaker series is announced. And registration is open for summer kids’ camps.

April 2025 Newsletter

April 2025 Newsletter

We are very honored to share the news that the Penobscot Marine Museum has again achieved accreditation from the Alliance of American Museums. Plus, the spring speaker series lineup, and our grand opening date set!

January 2025 Newsletter

January 2025 Newsletter

Join our community conversation about the former Belfast canneries, sign up for our Sailor’s Valentine Workshop next month, and explore some new digital collections.

December Newsletter

December Newsletter

Join us at a book launch party, enroll your kids in February vacation day-camps, and shop some great holiday gifts!

November Newsletter

November Newsletter

In November, we invite you to join our conversation about the closing of Maine’s sardine canneries, plus get ready for the holidays with a sailor’s knot wreath-making workshop.

October Newsletter

October Newsletter

October at the museum brings our annual Twilight Tours, plus meet authors Carl and David Little, read an update from our Education Department, and step back in time to Belfast in the 1980s through the lens of Leslie Gregory.

September Newsletter

September Newsletter

This September at the museum, join our sea chantey singalongs, time travel with us to the roaring 20s, peek into the archives of Pack Dodge.

August Newsletter

August Newsletter

PMM unveils a new logo, McKenna and Her Camera debuts, and the museum is open free during the Searsport Art Walks.

July Newsletter

July Newsletter

Our Elixir of the Sea fundraiser in Camden, a special E.B. White open mic night, and kids’ summer camps start!

June Newsletter

June Newsletter

Joanna Colcord speaker series, Sea Chantey singalongs every Thursday, and the special off-site exhibit “McKenna and Her Camera.”

May 2024 Newsletter

May 2024 Newsletter

Join us this month for our opening reception, sing sea chanteys every Thursday all season, and sign up soon for our kids’s summer camps.

April 2024 Newsletter

April 2024 Newsletter

Enjoy a Member Monday featuring Joanna Colcord’s work, mark your calendars for our grand opening reception, and save the date for the 2024 Elixir of the Sea gala honoring Front Street Shipyard.

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Penobscot Marine Museum

40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498 Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529

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We will re-open in May 2026

Thanks for a great season! Penobscot Marine Museum's campus is now closed for the winter.