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Penobscot Marine Museum
Contact: Dorothy Havey
5 Church St
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207.548.2529
Hours: 10:00 - 5:00 Monday - Saturday, 12:00 - 5:00 Sunday
Email: dhavey@pmm-maine.org
Fax: 207.548.2520

The Penobscot Marine Museum maintains collections in more than a dozen areas, including:

Regional watercraft
Photography
Marine art
Furniture and domestic furnishings
Ship and boat models
Navigation instruments
Other nautical gear
China trade items
Industrial artifacts
Scrimshaw
Clothing and fabric arts
Historic buildings
Ship's papers and other business records
Genealogy records

Items from these collections are displayed around the campus in several exhibits and in the archives and library.

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Current Exhibits

Summer Folk

By Penobscot Marine Museum - 06/12

Ernie DeRaps, lighthouse keeper at four Maine lighthouses, will present a slide show illustrating the life of a lighthouse keeper. He and his wife wrote a book about lighthouse-keeping and light housekeeping. Thursday Night Lecture Series June 13, 7:00 pm Stephen Phillips Memorial Library 11 ...

By Penobscot Marine Museum - 06/06

Saturday, June 8, 2:00 pmChildren’s Story Hour and book signingConnie and Peter Roop, authors of Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, will tell us the story of Abbie Burgess who manned the light on Matinicus Island for four weeks while her father the lighthouse keeper was stuck on shore during a ...

By Penobscot Marine Museum - 06/03

“Early American Garden Design: Popular Landscaping in Colonial and Victorian America” An illustrated talk by Diana Chapin of The Heirloom Garden of Maine on how gardening has changed over the course of American history. Her slides depict popular landscape design techniques of the Colonial and ...

By Penobscot Marine Museum - 05/29

Please join us Thursday night, May 30th at the Good Kettle in Stockton Springs for a wine tasting from 4 to 7 pm! 10% of all sales support the Penobscot Marine Museum programs.

By Penobscot Marine Museum - 05/27

We are open for the season! Saturday, May 25 through Sunday, October 20, 2013 Explore with us the shipwrecks and near misses; the perfect storms and sudden squalls; those lost at sea and the families left behind; and the brave lifesavers and brilliant marine equipment innovators. Through the ...