Special Events at PMM


Lectures, Workshops, Events
You’re invited to join us at Penobscot Marine Museum for our ongoing series of special events! For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or jganskop@pmm-maine.org.


  • Maine Marine Fare

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Saturday, September 9 and Sunday, September 10

    Maine Marine Fare will celebrate all the foods from the abundant waters of coastal Maine. The two day program will include talks, panel discussions and educational tastings, featuring fishermen, food producers, aquaculturists, researchers and scientists, and members of the food and hospitality trades. It will end with a dinner called “Food from our Seas,” prepared by chef Sam Hayward with the assistance of Ladleah Dunn. Hayward, named “Best Chef in the Northeast” by the James Beard Association, co-owner and executive chef of Fore Street Restaurant in Portland, has been called “Maine’s Food Hero” for his promotion and innovative use of Maine food products from the land, the sea, and everywhere in between. Dunn is a chef, gardener, food consultant, and boat-builder in Lincolnville.

    Dinner tickets are limited. Please call 207-548-2529 for availability.

  • Library Sale

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    Friday, September 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, September 30 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
    PMM Visitors Center
    2 Church Street

    Items for sale will include books, posters and postcards. Friday evening wine and cheese will be served. For more information call 207-548-2529.

  • Library Sale

    PMM Visitors Center 2 Church St., Searsport, ME, United States

    Friday, September 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
    Saturday, September 30 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
    PMM Visitors Center
    2 Church Street

    Items for sale will include books, posters and postcards. Friday evening wine and cheese will be served. For more information call 207-548-2529.

  • Last Night at the Museum

    Merithew and Fowler True Ross Houses Church St., Searsport, United States

    Saturday, October 14 5 pm to 7 pm

    Fowler-True-Ross House, 1 Church St.
    Tickets $5 adults, $3 children, $12 families
    Join the Nightwatch as they put the Museum to bed for the season and the portraits come alive to tell their stories. Family-friendly and all in good “spirit”. Tours leave every 15 minutes and last half an hour.

  • The Home Road

    Colonial Theater 163 High St, Belfast, ME, United States

    Monday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m.
    Colonial Theatre
    163 High St, Belfast
    $12 members, children and students
    $15 non-members

    We are excited to bring Portland based filmmaker Tonya Shevenell to the Colonial theatre to screen her film The Home Road.

  • An 1894 Dinner and Grog

    Please join in the fun
    With Penobscot Marine Museum
    An 1894 Dinner and Grog

    Ondine Oyster & Wine Bar
    108 Main Street, Belfast, Maine
    February 22, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.
    $65 per person

    Seating is limited. Please reserve by phone 207-338-3318 or email skettell@pmm-maine.org

    Pictures from the Penobscot Marine Museum tell many stories. The picture on this card was taken in 1894 at the Oddfellows Hall in Belfast (the building now houses Chase’s Daily). We do not know what the men are drinking or why they are peeling apples, but we can have a lot of fun thinking about both, and eating some of the food they might have eaten in 1894 in Belfast, prepared by Chef Evan Mallet in 2018. Please join us for some fun and see more of our photos – old ones of familiar places and some of our newest collection of work by Kosti Ruohomaa that is creating a stir around the state. And as always, Evan’s cooking is the icing on any cake.

  • Fishing During WWII

    PMM’s Stephen Phillips Memorial Library 11 Church St, Searsport, United States

    Ralph Stanley, our beloved historian, boatbuilder, musician, and Board member, will talk about the perils, adventures, and day-to-day work of fishing out of Southwest Harbor, Maine during the War. For more information call 207-548-2529.

    Free
  • Kosti Comes Home: An Exhibit of Maritime Images

    Camden Public Library 55 Maine St., Camden, ME, United States

    At Camden Public Library
    55 Main Street, Camden
    April 3- April 30
    Opening Reception: April 3 at 7:00 pm

    April is Maritime Month and Penobscot Marine Museum will once again partner with the Camden Public Library and create an exhibit for the Picker Room. This is the first exhibit of Kosti Ruohomaa's photographs since his archive arrived back in Maine last year. On April 3rd at 7:00 pm there will be an opening reception for the exhibit and an illustrated talk by Kosti's biographer Deanna Bonner-Gantor. 

  • Student Designed Mobile Tour Launch

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Searsport District Middle School has a good number of students enrolled in the National Junior Honor Society. NJHS president Max Provencher approached the Museum to devise some projects for his fellow students. Working with curator Cipperly Good, the students have picked their favorite objects on exhibit. The mobile tour of their favorites will feature labels about what intrigued the students about the object and photographs that allow visitors to virtually climb into our boats, spin objects 360 degrees, or open up cabinet doors. Those in the area are welcome to attend the launch and interact with the student designers. Bring your smart phone!

    Free
  • A Salty Upbringing: Tales of Maritime Mothers

    Merithew and Fowler True Ross Houses Church St., Searsport, United States

    A Midcoast Maine mother reared her children at sea or at least close to the water’s edge. In later years, she sent her sons off to be captains and crew and her daughters to be captain’s wives. Hear our troop of young actors tell the tales of the mothers depicted in portraits from the Museum collection and tour our Sea Captain’s home. This program is in partnership with the Searsport District Middle School’s National Junior Honor Society.

    Free