Penobscot Marine Museum’s campus is currently closed for the winter. We’ll re-open in May 2026.
40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
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.
Friday, June 11th at Noon
Free, premiering on Facebook and YouTube
We delve into writings by children in the 19th century. Joanna Colcord playing dress-up with friends. Andrew Pendleton's instructions from his father. Lillias trying to teach a classroom at age 15. Emma likes to go dancing and sleigh riding, but works hard washing and sewing when her mother is ill. We also meet Harry Dow who goes to sea as a child and is a captain by his twenties.
May 28th at Noon
Free, premiering on Facebook & YouTube
When you think about Maine, do you picture seagulls, lobsterboats, and lighthouses? As we get ready for summer in Maine, we’ll take a look at local artist Ken Hatch’s 1976 painting “Wharf Scene with Gull.” What says Maine summer to you? Send your photos or short videos to Jeana at jganskop@pmm-maine.org for a chance to be included in this Peek into Paintings!
Peek into Paintings - Shipbuilding
May 14th at Noon
Free, premiering on Facebook & YouTube
Penobscot Bay's economy in the 19th century was based on shipping, shipbuilding, and getting the lumber to build the ships. Sam Manning's detailed illustrations take us through the basics of the shipbuilding process. We look at a couple of shipyards on Searsport Harbor- plus, one Mainer who used enslaved African Americans to enrich himself…
April 23rd at noon
Free on Facebook
The oil painting of the schooner NANCY HANKS was created by Antonio Jacobsen in 1918, soon after it was launched. Most of the ship’s portraits we have explored during Peek into Paintings are from the mid to late 1800s. Why was there a brief resurgence in wooden shipbuilding in the late 1910s? Find out more by joining us on Facebook Live at noon!
April 9th at noon
Free on Facebook
Belfast in the 19th century- Fires, Treason, and Whist parties? We look closely at a lithograph of Belfast from 1877, find buildings that are still here today, and explore some of daily life in the second half of the 19th century in Penobscot Bay, Maine.
Bark JOHN CARVER & Looking Back
March 26th at noon on Facebook
We will examine Waldo Pierce’s 1960 painting “Carver Yard with the JOHN CARVER on the ways” and explore how twentieth-century artists, authors, and families remembered Searsport’s shipbuilding heyday.
Lumber Schooners
March 12th at noon on Facebook
Fitz Henry Lane painted a schooner carrying lumber from Maine to Massachusetts around 1850. We hear adventurous stories about a couple of lumber schooners that wrecked and a rescue attempt that goes very wrong.
Friday, February 26th
Noon
Penobscot Marine Museum educators use high resolution images of our paintings to zoom in on all the details. See our paintings and other images as never before! Learn about the artist and the history and geography behind the subject of the painting. These programs start at noon on Facebook and are later available on YouTube. You can rewatch them or find ones you missed on Facebook or YouTube.
Friday, February 12th
Noon
Penobscot Marine Museum educators use high resolution images of our paintings to zoom in on all the details. See our paintings and other images as never before! Learn about the artist and the history and geography behind the subject of the painting. These programs start at noon on Facebook and are later available on YouTube. You can rewatch them or find ones you missed on Facebook or YouTube.
Thursday, February 4
6pm
Free, Registration Required
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Paul DeOrsay on Thursday, February 4th for a program on Arctic exploration, science, and the Inuit. This event will be open to all on Zoom.
