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.

Penobscot Marine Museum

Address
2 Church Street
Searsport, 04974 United States Get Directions
Phone 207-548-0334
Website https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/

Events at this venue

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  • Noon Knot Club at PMM

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    One-time fee of $5/person, FREE for members

    Bring a brown bag lunch, picnic blanket or lawn chair, and your knot project and join us for some crafting and conversation. We will provide participants with a packet including string and instructions for several knot projects. This is a casual crafting hour - our staff and volunteers will offer guidance but generally the knotting is self-led. Recommended supplies to bring include small needle-nosed pliers, sharp scissors, a butane lighter, and additional string or rope if desired. Recommended books are Des Pawson’s Knot Craft, Stuart Grainger’s Creative Ropecraft, and The Marlinspike Sailor by Hervey Garrett Smith. Canceled on rainy days. Join the group on the grass near the Camera Obscura (see map)

  • Speaker: Maine in the China Trade

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Thursday, May 30, 6pm
    $5 for members, $8 for non-members

    Drugs, armed conflict, and free trade. Sound familiar? The First Opium War of the early 1840s, with British and Chinese fighting over the opium trade and Chinese sovereignty, opened up Chinese ports to the world. Maine's merchant mariners aboard Maine-built ships soon thereafter entered the Chinese import and export trade. The trade aboard Maine-built ships lasted into the turn of the 20th Century. In the meantime, Maine sea captains and their families brought back souvenirs, stories, and an economic understanding of China.

  • Speaker: Object-Based Learning

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Thursday, May 23, 6pm-8pm
    $5 for members, $8 for non-members, free for teachers

    What can you learn from a ship’s painting, a 19th-century logbook, or a souvenir from China? How can these objects be used to teach? In this interactive presentation, PMM staff will discuss the benefits of object-based learning. Guidelines will be provided for using Museum artifacts as primary sources in the classroom and as starting points for storytelling.

  • Does it Float? Children’s Camp

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    March 15th, 9am-4pm
    Ages 5-10, $40/$30 for PMM members

    Participants mix science with arts and crafts and even a little history as they explore the basics of buoyancy. Starting with paper boats, participants will use their creativity to design their own model boats out of a variety of materials. Camp will also include stories, games, and opportunities to float the creations in a basin. Registration deadline is March 8th.

  • Fish Stories & Tall Tales Children’s Camp [Presidents Week]

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    February 18-22, 9am-4pm
    Ages 5-10, $195/$160 for PMM members

    From Paul Bunyan to Dad’s story about the giant fish that gets bigger with each retelling, Coastal Maine is rich with fish stories and tall tales. During this collaboration between the Penobscot Marine Museum and Neighborhood Arts, participants will start each day at the Museum enjoying stories, crafts, games, and music relating to tall tales. In the afternoon, the participants will cross the street to create their own performance inspired by fish stories and tall tales. On Friday at 4pm, families and the public are invited to attend the performance at Neighborhood Arts. Registration deadline is February 8th.

  • Sailors’ Valentine Workshops

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Saturday, February 9th, 10am - 12pm
    Children, under age 7 with adult helper, $8
    Adults, $20

    Sailor's Valentines are a form of sea shell art, popular in the 1800s, when sailors brought them home to their wives, girlfriends, mothers, or sisters. Most Sailor's Valentines were made in the West Indies, on the island of Barbados, between 1830 and 1880, but production continued into the early 20th century. In this workshop, you can make your own Sailors’ Valentine to take home. Children will build the Sailors’ Valentine with a plastic base while the adult workshop will have smaller shells, a wooden base, and tweezers to easily set small shells. All materials and tools provided.

  • Victorian Christmas

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8
    4pm-7pm
    Free admission

    Celebrate the season with Searsport and the Penobscot Marine Museum! Experience the 19th-century Sea Captain’s house decorated for Christmas by local businesses. Shop for holiday gifts in the mobile museum store at the Fowler House entrance. Make your own Christmas ornament in Old Vestry.

    Free

  • Victorian Christmas

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Friday, December 7 and Saturday, December 8
    4pm-7pm
    Free admission

    Celebrate the season with Searsport and the Penobscot Marine Museum! Experience the 19th-century Sea Captain’s house decorated for Christmas by local businesses. Shop for holiday gifts in the mobile museum store at the Fowler House entrance. Make your own Christmas ornament in Old Vestry.

    Free

  • Sources of inspiration with Ralph Stanley

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    August 25, 2018
    11:00 am to 2:00 pm
    Free with Museum Admission

    Ralph Stanley will be showing off some of the half models he has built and talking about how he uses them to build full size models.