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Stephen Phillips Memorial Library

Stephen Phillips Memorial Library Research library at Penobscot Marine Museum The Stephen Phillips Memorial Library serves as the museum’s research center, providing access to books, manuscripts, photographs, nautical charts, maps, and boat plans. In addition to our...

Students build boats in new museum learning center

SEARSPORT, Maine (NEWS CENTER)– A Searsport District High School course is teaching students problem solving skills and maintaining the tradition of boat budiling in Seasport. “To have a new generation of young people involved in the maritime field is just...

Maine Boatbuilding Forum Launches in March

Searsport, Maine, February 11, 2014 – Boat building is an important part of Maine’s cultural and economic life, bringing millions of dollars into the state and providing thousands of jobs. This March Penobscot Marine Museum launches the Maine Boatbuilding Forum, a...

Wayne and Loraine Hamilton Donate Building to PMM

Searsport, Maine, February 10, 2014 – Wayne and Loraine Hamilton have donated the former Hamilton Marine Seine Loft on Route One in Searsport to the Penobscot Marine Museum as a home for the museum’s new education center. Contractors have renovated the front of the...

Book signing and talk about the way Maine used to be

On Saturday, February 15 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at PMM’s Main Street Gallery, Maine author Trudy Chambers Price will talk about The Cows Are Out! and My Journey, two memoirs of life in rural Maine.  Trudy grew up in Aroostook County where her family lived for...