Darrell Gilman of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will teach a 10-hour course on boating safely this June (2013) at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine. The course covers specific laws and regulations, handling boating emergencies, safety practices, navigation...

This fall, the Penobscot Marine Museum received a gift of National Fisherman magazine’s archive of photographs from its publisher, Diversified Business Communications of Portland, Maine. The collection comprises some 20,000 photographs gathered for publication by the magazine’s editors, and...

Free admission, live music, demonstrations, children’s crafts, great food and summertime games galore are highlights of Penobscot Bay Day, which runs from from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on August 25, 2012, at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine. This...

Penobscot Marine Museum is hosting its 2012 Gala and Auction on July 28 at 5:30 at the Point Lookout Resort in Northport, Maine. This year bids for the auction can also be made online. Until noon on July 26,...

Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, will open for the 2012 season with 2 new exhibits featuring regional tourism and marine art. Summer Folk: The Tourists of Penobscot Bay is a campus-wide exhibit exploring the history of tourism from...

Penobscot Marine Museum has scheduled Spring Cleanup & Volunteer Day on May 12. Volunteers will spend the day working alongside other friendly, energetic people while helping prepare the museum for the opening of its 2012 exhibit season. Breakfast and...

Harold Burnham, a 14th-generation shipwright from Essex, Massachusetts, will discuss the construction of the pinky schooner Ardelle in a talk at the Penobscot Marine Museum. Burnham’s presentation will be illustrated with photographs by Dan Tobyne, author and photographer of...

Several exhibits of historic local photography from the archives of the Penobscot Marine Museum, and a number of illustrated talks about those exhibits, are scheduled in Belfast and Camden, now through April. Here’s the breakdown: Knox County Through Eastern’s...

The Penobscot Marine Museum will be the center of activities on Friday, December 9, during Yule Revel, Searsport‘s holiday celebration. The town’s official holiday tree will be lit on The Crescent to the sound of caroling. Warm up with...

The Penobscot Marine Museum has announced the opening of its “virtual museum”—an online visual database to make its collections available to anyone, anywhere. Access to the database is free and no registration is required. Only a web browser is...