News at the Museum
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Penobscot Marine Museum Celebrates Searsport Maritime Heritage Days
Saturday, August 6th, Penobscot Marine Museum will join in with the town of Searsport to celebrate Maritime Heritage Days with a temporary campus-wide exhibit and a house tour featuring Searsport sea captains’ homes. Saturday, August 6th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,...
The Fowler-True-Ross House
By Deborah Nowers The Fowler-True-Ross House sits prominently on Main Street and is a major building of the Penobscot Marine Museum. The docents who work in the house asked the library researchers for information related to the ownership of the house and whether there...
Searsport High School Boatbuilders Sail With Maine Daysail, LLC On The Schooner TIMBERWIND
(Belfast, Maine) On Tuesday, June 21, student boatbuilders from Searsport High School have been invited by Maine DaySail, LLC for a six hour sail aboard the schooner TIMBERWIND with Captain Lance Meadow. The group will leave at 11:00 am from Thompson’s Wharf in...
Postcards! Postcards! Get your Postcards! Penobscot Marine Museum at Maine’s 2016 Antique Paper Show
A sampling of historic images from Penobscot Marine Museum’s collection of over 140,000 photographs will be available at the Maine 2016 Antique Paper Show on Saturday, June 25, from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at the First Congregational Church Vestry, 8 Church Street,...
Searsport High School Students Launch Their Boats
Ten students from Searsport District High School with nine community volunteers, and master boat-builder Greg Rossel have been working together since mid-January building two Shellback Dinghies for the class The Geometry of Boat Building. The dinghies, which the...
Edith & Bennett To Sing At Penobscot Marine Museum Members Opening
Edith Gawler and Bennett Konesni, who play banjo and fiddle and sing old-time music from Maine and beyond, will be playing at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine for a Members Reception in Main Street Gallery on Friday, May 20, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Edith grew...
Museum To Host Open House For Local Businesses
Owners and staff of area businesses are invited to a party and special preview of Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2016 exhibits on Wednesday, May 18th, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The museum’s theme Wish You Were here: Communicating Maine includes several exhibits; Historic...
Five Thousand U.S. Fishing Industry Photographs Now Online
In 2012, the international media company Diversified Communications donated over 15,000 photographs to Penobscot Marine Museum from its National Fisherman magazine archives. This collection, the largest of its kind, documents the U. S. fishing industry from the 1950’s...
Vintage Photos And Contemporary Art Come Together In Unusual Penobscot Marine Museum Exhibit
On view at PMM from May 28 through October 16, 2016
Alamo Theatre Presents Talk On Historic Photographs And Film Of Bucksport
Historic photographs and vintage film footage of Bucksport from the late 19th and early 20th centuries will be presented by Penobscot Marine Museum’s Kevin Johnson and Brook Minner of Northeast Historic Film Archive on Thursday, May 12, 6:00 pm at Alamo Theatre, 85...
Wine Tasting Event to Benefit Penobscot Marine Museum
Taste delicious locally crafted wine Thursday, April 21st from 5-7 pm at The Good Kettle in Stockton Springs. The wine tasting event will introduce you to Maine vineyards from across the state, with 10 % of the proceeds benefiting the Penobscot Marine Museum. The Good...
Experience Maritime Maine To Hold Stakeholder Meeting In April
Experience Maritime Maine, a partnership of maritime-related organizations, businesses, and coastal communities working together to promote and preserve Maine’s unique maritime culture through heritage tourism efforts, is having its third bi-annual Stakeholder Meeting...
Seabird Guano Bottle From Penobscot Marine Museum At Smithsonian
A bottle filled with colored seabird guano (droppings) from Penobscot Marine Museum's collection is currently on display in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The bottle is part of the exhibit The Norie Marine Atlas & Guano Trade...
Postcards From Maine
In 1916 Maine Governor Oakley C. Curtis proclaimed April 19 “Post Card Day” and issued a proclamation requesting all Maine citizens send a postcard of Maine to friends and family outside the state with the message “come to Maine.” Something tells us Governor Oakley...
2016 Governor’s Conference On Tourism To Feature Postcards From Penobscot Marine Museum
In cooperation with the Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2016 Postcard Project, The Maine Office of Tourism will showcase 8 postcards from 1916, selected from the museum’s archives, at the 2016 Governor’s Conference on Tourism on March 21 and 22 at Sunday River Resort. The...
Maine Authors Celebrate Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum
On Friday, December 4th, Penobscot Marine Museum will host five Maine authors and an illustrator, as part of the Town of Searsport’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting. Maine authors Ardeana Hamlin, Douglas Coffin, Mac Smith, Mark Scott Ricketts, Mark Warner, and...
Searsport’s Christmas Extravaganza
On Friday, December 4th at 5:30 pm the Town of Searsport will light its Christmas tree on the Crescent, inaugurating the holiday season with a weekend of celebrations. On Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 pm the Penobscot Marine Museum Sea Captain’s house will be open to the...
Victorian Christmas Celebrated at Penobscot Marine Museum
The holiday season will be celebrated with Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum this year on Friday, December 4th and Saturday, December 5th. The ship captain’s house will be open to the public with each room decorated for a Victorian Christmas by community...
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October 16, 2023 – May 22, 2024
Museum exhibits and store are closed. Museum offices, research library, photo archives and education department remain open year-round. Call 207-548-2529 to make an appointment.