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News at the Museum

To receive press releases or for more information, contact Sabrina Kettell, [email protected] or 207-548-2529 ext. 216.

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...

The Photography of Antonia Small at Penobscot Marine Museum

Antonia Small grew up fishing with her uncle on Mobile Bay, so she is happy to now live in Port Clyde, Maine within earshot of the sea and walking distance to a wharf or a beach. She discovered photography as a young adult, then combined her love of both photography...

Benefit in Memory of Mike Stein

In memory of Penobscot Marine Museum's beloved Board Member Dr. Mike Stein, and to celebrate his love of the water and boating, Jerri Finch has donated her beautiful painting West Fork to raise funds in his memory. The painting is oil on board, 9 1/2" x 14 1/2", and...

Three for the road: Art shows worth abandoning the beach for

Story By Kathleen Pierce in the Bangor Daily News Besides the line at Red’s and mounting traffic on Route 1, there is another Maine mainstay in overdrive this summer — art shows. It’s tough to wade through the onslaught of openings between trips to the beach, but here...

art current: Gee’s Bend Quilts at the Penobscot Marine Museum

Story by Britta Konau in The Free Press The story of Gee's Bend quilts is a complicated, sad and happy one. Gee's Bend, a remote, historically African-American village on a peninsula formed by the Alabama River, originated in the early 1800s from slave cabins of...

World Ocean Observatory Director to Speak at Penobscot Marine Museum

On Thursday, August 21st at 7:00 pm, Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory will present The Sea Connects All Things, an illustrated talk on the ocean as an integrated global social system.  Neill will suggest actions, beyond the predictable conventions,...

Gee’s Bend Events

EXHIBIT: “Do It Your Way”: Gee’s Bend Quilts & Quilters in Maine Exhibit Penobscot Marine Museum, Main Street Gallery, 40 East Main Street, Searsport, Maine, from August 2nd through September 7th, 2014. Sponsored by Fiber College of Maine and the Emily and William...

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Penobscot Marine Museum

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Penobscot Marine Museum will reopen in May 2025.