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Photography Framing Workshop Offered at Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot Marine Museum Framer Lin Calista will conduct a photography framing workshop, Framing Tips and Tricks, on Saturday, July 25, 9:00 am to noon at PMM’s Stephen Phillips Memorial Library. The workshop will help photographers decide on the best ways to frame...
Learn How to Make a Camera
Make a pinhole camera using a box from the kitchen shelf and take beautiful soft-focus photographs in the Make a Pinhole Camera workshops offered at Penobscot Marine Museum this summer. A pinhole camera is a camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a...
Maine’s Lobster Boat Racing Film at Penobscot Marine Museum
Maine’s Lobster Boat Racing season is here. Lobsterboat racing has been happening in Maine for over a century, and began casually. Today the races are not for the faint of heart; they are highly, excitingly, competitive. On Thursday, July 9, at Penobscot Marine...
Historic Photographs from Penobscot Marine Museum at Maine’s 2015 Antique Paper Show
Historic images from Penobscot Marine Museum’s collection of over 140,000 photographs will be available at the Maine 2015 Antique Paper Show on Saturday, June 27, from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at the First Congregational Church Vestry, 8 Church Street, Searsport. This show...
Three Forgotten Women Photographers Brought to Light
Between 1900 and 1940 many Maine photographers made “real photo” post cards of local scenes and events. At a time when most professional photographers were men, three women largely forgotten today created memorable artistic images which provide rich insights into how...
Searsport High School Students Discuss Moving Stories of Maine Veterans
This winter five Searsport District High School seniors, Connor Fraser, Dylon Grant, Kevin Keniston, Anthony Powers, and Bartley Santos, curated an exhibit, Memoirs of War: A Soldier’s Seabag, which opened this spring at the Penobscot Marine Museum. Working with PMM...
Award-winning Maine Boat Builder in Film at Penobscot Marine Museum
Ralph Stanley: An Eye for Wood is a moving documentary on the extraordinary life of world-renowned Maine Master Boat Builder Ralph Stanley. Stanley, the son of a lobsterman, grew up on Mt. Desert Island and began building wooden boats in the early 1950’s. He has built...
Maiden Voyage for Searsport Student Creations
“It’s the town’s DNA, so it really works especially well for Searsport,” says boat building instructor Greg Rossel. Boat building and sea fairing is the heart of the town’s long history. High schoolers from Searsport District High School continued that tradition with...
Bizarre Chair on Exhibit at Penobscot Marine Museum
A bizarre cage-chair on wheels, built in 1896 as a deterrent to Maine’s hobos, will be on display as part of Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2015 exhibit Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light. The chair, which is on loan to the Penobscot Marine Museum...
Seasonal Assistant Store Manager Position
Job Description: Penobscot Marine Museum is seeking an Assistant Store Manager for the 2015 season, mid-May to late October. This position will handle daily museum operations including admissions, museum shop and membership sales, security, light housekeeping, and...
Searsport Farmers Market Opens May 26th
The Searsport Farmers Market will begin its second season on Tuesday, May 26th, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The market is hosted by Penobscot Marine Museum on the Crescent on Route One, and will be open every Tuesday through mid-October. New vendors to the market this year...
Photography Exhibit Brings History to Life at Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot Marine Museum opens its 2015 season on May 23 with four major exhibitions of historic photography under the umbrella title Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light. The campus will be filled with hands-on activities. Museum visitors will be...
Searsport High School Students Launch Boats at Town Dock
At noon on Thursday, May 21, two Shellback Dinghies made by students at Searsport District High School will be launched into Searsport Harbor at the Town Dock. The students have spent the past eighteen weeks building the dinghies with master boat builder Greg Rossel...
Maine’s Largest Pinhole Camera
Photos and Text by Gabor Degre of The Bangor Daily News Did you ever wonder how cameras work? With the marvel of digital equipment, it seems almost like magic. You push a button and the image appears instantly. Photo archivists with the Penobscot Marine MuseumKevin...
Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light
May 23 through October 18, 2015
Loraine Hamilton
Loraine Hamilton was a good friend and a long-time supporter of Penobscot Marine Museum's educational programs. Thank you all so much for your donations to the Hamilton Learning Center in memory of Loraine Hamilton. The Hamilton Learning Center enables Penobscot...
Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live at Colonial Theater
Salted Tales: Stories From the Sea Told Live at Colonial Theater was presented on March 29, 2015, but if you missed it you can watch the video or listen to the audio at WERU, Part 1, Part 2. Coastal Maine’s rich maritime heritage has produced a lot of sailors and you...
Gigantic Walk-in Camera Planned for Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2015 Season
A huge walk-in camera, designed by John Bielenberg and built by John Bielenberg and Richard Mann, is one of the many inter-active exhibits planned By Penobscot Marine Museum for this summer’s Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light. This is the first...
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Penobscot Marine Museum
40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498 Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
Hours
July 1 – October 12, 2024
Tuesday: 10am-5pm
Wednesday: 10am-5pm
Thursday: 10am-5pm
Friday: 10am-5pm
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