Penobscot Marine Museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00am to 5:00pm.
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.
Wednesday, June 19
11am and lasts half an hour to one hour
Included with Museum admission.
Find out more about how sailors use knots and how we use knots in our daily lives. Starting with a reading of Look! I Can Tie My Shoes, participants will try out different sailors’ knots, make their own knot jewelry, and go on a scavenger hunt looking for knots around the Museum.
Sponsored by Wayne Hamilton in memory of Loraine Hamilton.
October 20, 2018
5pm-7pm
$5 per person
Footsteps walk across the floor upstairs when no one is there. Voices are heard, a presence is felt. There are stories from the people who work at the Penobscot Marine Museum about unexplained circumstances in the museum buildings. This is your chance to hear them. Are the ghost stories real? You decide. This special tour starts with museum staff sharing descriptions of spooky encounters at the museum and proceeds with a flashlight tour of the Fowler-True-Ross House. Discover the true stories behind the artifacts but beware – you may leave with a new story about a ghostly encounter. Tours will start every 15 minutes and will become spookier as the night goes on. Tours leave from the PMM Visitors Center. To reserve your time slot, call 207-548-2529.
October 18
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
PMM Visitors Center
$5 for members and $8 for non-members
Judy Chandler's grandparents ran the Blue Hill Bay Lighthouse. They raised twelve children at this remote lighthouse accessible by foot only at low tide or by boat. Using family photos, hear about her family's adventures and experience living in a lighthouse.
October 11
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
PMM Visitors Center
$5 for members and $8 for non-members
October 4
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
PMM Visitors Center
$5 for members and $8 for non-members
The Penobscot Expedition, during the Revolutionary War, was the worst naval disaster in American history until Pearl Harbor. David Middleton, a costumed interpreter, will discuss the failures of the assault on Magabigaduce (Castine) and the consequences to the Mid-coast and Penobscot regions of Maine.
Friday, September 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 30 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
PMM Visitors Center
2 Church Street
Items for sale will include books, posters and postcards. Friday evening wine and cheese will be served. For more information call 207-548-2529.
Friday, September 29 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 30 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
PMM Visitors Center
2 Church Street
Items for sale will include books, posters and postcards. Friday evening wine and cheese will be served. For more information call 207-548-2529.
What happens when the oceans are emptied of all their fish? What happens when three hundred years of human knowledge and expertise disappear before the onslaught of the technology-driven world? Author and fisherman Paul Molyneaux will answer these questions during our speaker’s series on September 7 at 7pm in the Museum Admissions Center at 2 Church Street.
Molyneaux wrote The Doryman’s Reflection, an account of what transpired in the New England fisheries over the past half century, as told by the people who lived it, including Molyneaux himself. Fishermen survive as relics, the last hunter-gatherers among us. Their boats, crammed with ropes and nets, carry the mystique of a nearly forgotten world ruled by the elements. Molyneaux as a young man journeyed to Maine with no experience and a dream of working on a boat. This is the story of his apprenticeship with Bernard Raynes, one of Maine’s last independent commercial fishermen. Originally published in 2005, the book has been thoroughly updated to cover the events of the past ten years.
For more information, please call 207-548-2529.
Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
Ralph Stanley, historian and boatbuilder, will present a talk on the mackerel schooner AUGUSTA E. HERRICK. The Swans Island schooner "had the distinction of being the only centerboard schooner ever to be employed in the North American fisheries" according to historian Howard Chappelle. The Swans Island fishermen, like owner William P. Herrick, led the Atlantic coast mackerel fisheries in catch rates. Come learn more about the vigorous and hardy men and schooners of Swan's Island.
CANCELLED
Thursday, August 24, 7 pm
PMM’s Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
The culminating event of the Waldo County Reads program, join a panel of fisheries scientists, journalists and policymakers to discuss the slate of fisheries non-fiction books. Bring questions and observations about how the books address today’s current issues in the fishing industry. For a complete list of books, please visit our website.
