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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  • Hand-painting Black & White Photographs

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Create an extraordinary work of art by transforming your black and white photographs using the historic technique of hand-painting. This intensive workshop explores traditional methods for applying pigments to black & white images. Suitable photos will be provided by the museum or bring your own black & white, matte surfaced, images. Painting materials will be provided.

    Artist: Trained as an artist and art historian in New York City, Liv Kristin Robinson is a Belfast area fine-art photographer who is well known for her hand-painted images and has shown widely. Her originals are to be found in several private and public collections including The New York Public Library, The Portland Museum of Art, Colby College and the Farnsworth Museum of Art.

    $7

  • Making a Tintype Portrait

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Come have your tintype portrait taken, or learn how a tintype is made. Tintypes are a type of photograph, popular in the 1860’s and 1870’s, taken on a piece of metal. Portraits will be made on a first come first served basis or you may reserve a time for your portrait by calling the museum at 207-548-0334 or 207-548-2529.

    Artist: AgNO3 Lab is a mobile lab specializing in formal tintype portraits and event tintype photo-booth installations.

    $40

  • Make a Pinhole Camera

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Take beautiful photographs with cameras you've made from boxes off the kitchen shelf. It's pure magic! The beautiful, soft-focus images will amaze you. A pinhole camera is a camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box where a piece of film or photographic paper is wedged or taped into the other end.

    Photographer: Anne-Claude Cotty is an artist and teacher living in Stonington, and is a past education coordinator of the Maine Crafts Association and executive director of the Hancock County Cultural Network.

    $7

  • How to Build a Boat in Four Hours

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Have you ever wondered if it is possible to build a boat in four hours?  On Saturday, June 6th, 10:00 am at Penobscot Marine Museum, boat builder Tom Russell will demonstrate how to build a 12-foot Passy Skiff in just four hours.  This demonstration is part of the National Boatbuilding Challenge, a contest that will be held as part of the 6th Annual Belfast Harbor Fest on August 15th at Steamboat Landing. During Belfast Harbor Fest, eight to ten teams of two people each will compete to build a 12-foot rowboat in under four hours, put it in the water and successfully row it on the Passagassawaukeag.  To form your own team, or for more information go to www.belfastharborfest.com or call 207‐338‐0244.

    Free

  • Volunteer Day and Yale Day of Service 2015

    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 9, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
    Come volunteer at the Museum and help us get the galleries ready for opening day.

  • LAST DAY Museum campus closes for the season.

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    Sunday, October 19
    LAST DAY Museum campus closes for the season.

    October 20, 2014 through May 22, 2015
    The Museum campus is closed. The Museum Framer and Museum Shop are closed for renovation until further notice.

  • “Whoop and Drive ’er” – Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine by David Estey, Book Signing and Talk at Penobscot Marine Museum

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    On Thursday, October 16 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., David Estey will be at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport to discuss and sign “Whoop and Drive ’er” – Growing up in Aroostook County, Maine. “A humorous labor of love,” is how Estey describes his new illustrated memoir about colorful family members, friends, and characters he experienced while growing up in Fort Fairfield, Presque Isle, and Belfast, Maine. The memoir begins in Aroostook, but Estey attended the Rhode Island School of Design, travelled throughout Europe, was in the army, worked for the IRS, and lived in the South, before returning to Maine for a second career as an award-winning artist. Estey’s paintings will be on display for the event.

    Free for members and Searsport residents.

  • Sam Matinelli will demonstrate the making of hand-made oars

    Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

    CANCELED
    Sam Matinelli will demonstrate the making of hand-made oars. Sam is an oarmaker with Shaw & Tenney, makers of oars and paddles in Maine since 1958. Sponsored by Knickerbocker Group.
    Free with PMM admission.

    Free with museum admission