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Special Events at PMM


Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].


The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries 

University of Maine Hutchinson Center 80 Belmont Avenue, Belfast, United States

History Conference
Saturday, April 8, 2017
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
University of Maine Hutchinson Center
80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, Maine

Student: $30
Museum Members: $50
Teacher/Non-Profit Employee: $50
Non-members: $60

This year’s History Conference delves into statement: Human innovation and technology have proven to be too successful for the health of our fisheries and our local ecosystem.  Our line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question:

How did this happen and what do we do now?

Postcards From Freedom: On the Road with the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company

April 12, 2017
6:30-9:30
Freedom Historical Society

Please join PMM photo archivist Matt Wheeler for an informal illustrated talk about Belfast's own real photo postcard company, which opened its doors in 1909 and specialized in familiar views of small town and rural life throughout New England. The presentation will include many historic images of Freedom and surrounding towns; the audience is encouraged to share their knowledge and stories of the village in decades past.

Brooksville, Maine: The Postcard View

"Brooksville, Maine: The Postcard View"
Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m.
Brooksville Public Library
1 Town House Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617
Free

Photo Archivist, Kevin Johnson, will present Brooksville Maine: The Postcard View; Selections from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company” at the Brooksville Free Public Library. The slide show and talk will consist of a short film about the postcard company as well as the historical views of Brooksville and surrounding towns. 

Ocean Frontiers III Film & Panel Discussion

The Strand Theatre 345 Main St, Rockland, ME, United States

Ocean Frontiers III is a powerful film that chronicles efforts to plan for the healthy, safe, and sustainable future of our oceans. It explores the intersection of national security, maritime commerce, fishing, and recreation, plus expanding industries such as offshore wind energy and aquaculture, coupled with scientific discovery, and tells the story of how ocean planning helps us manage and balance all the uses of our ocean to keep it thriving for generations to come.

The evening will begin with a light reception, followed by the film and post-film Q&A with a panel of local experts.

Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Join us behind the scenes at PMM!
Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service
This Saturday, May 6, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

Come volunteer at the Museum and help us get ready for opening day. Great food, great people. See history up close. We provide the brooms and mops, you provide the elbow grease.

For more information call us at 207-548-2529. We thank you and we look forward to seeing you here!

Celebrating Ralph Stanley

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Celebrating Ralph Stanley
Saturday, May 27, 1 pm to 5 pm
$1 museum admission all day
Join us for an afternoon of boat talk and music as we celebrate the career and talents of MDI
boatbuilder and National Heritage Fellow Ralph Stanley.

Catherine Schmitt, “Penobscot River Dams”

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

Catherine Schmitt, “Penobscot River Dams”
Thursday, June 1, 7 pm
Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
Join Catherine for a discussion of how dams and other environmental changes have affected salmon in the past, and how current efforts are working to restore salmon to their traditional spawning grounds.

The Meaning of Penobscot Bay

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

Thursday, June 15
6pm to 7pm
Penobscot Marine Museum, Merithew House

Join 7th graders from Searsport District Middle School for an exploration of the role Penobscot Bay plays in the lives of individuals and communities in the region.

Glen Libby and Antonia Small, Caught

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

Glen Libby and Antonia Small, Caught
Thursday, June 29, 7 pm
Caught is an account of the beauty, fragility and profound change that characterizes fishing, fishing families, and the communities who depend on them in the twenty-first century. Based in the tiny village of Port Clyde, Maine, but reaching globally, Caught chronicles the struggle to transform a way of life for all who depend on our planet’s bounty.