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Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529

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

Penobscot Marine Museum

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

Gala & Auction 2018

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Friday evening, August 3

Dinner with silent and live auctions
On the Penobscot Marine Museum campus
For more information call 207.548.2529 or email [email protected]

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Remote Control Lobster Boat and America’s Cup Sailboat Model Races

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Cost: Free with Museum Admission
Museum Crescent and Searsport Town Dock

It is race day down at the Searsport Town Dock, as the models of Lobster boats and America's Cup Yachts race for glory.  Stop by and cheer them on!

Student Designed Mobile Tour Launch

Penobscot Marine Museum 2 Church Street, Searsport, United States

Searsport District Middle School has a good number of students enrolled in the National Junior Honor Society. NJHS president Max Provencher approached the Museum to devise some projects for his fellow students. Working with curator Cipperly Good, the students have picked their favorite objects on exhibit. The mobile tour of their favorites will feature labels about what intrigued the students about the object and photographs that allow visitors to virtually climb into our boats, spin objects 360 degrees, or open up cabinet doors. Those in the area are welcome to attend the launch and interact with the student designers. Bring your smart phone!

Free