Shipwrecks Exhibit

Shipwrecks Exhibit Opens the 2013 Season
at Penobscot Marine Museum

For Those In Peril: Shipwrecks, Memorials, and Rescues opens Saturday, May 25th at Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine.  Opening Reception Friday, May 24th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Stories of “those in peril” will come alive for visitors to the Penobscot Marine Museum this season.  Through exciting interactive exhibits designed by English theater designer Chez Cherry, and with the Museum’s collections of marine art, portraits, photographs, lifesaving equipment, original manuscripts and logbooks, small watercraft, models, and navigational instruments, visitors will learn about the perils of the sea and how these perils have shaped, and continue to shape, our lives in coastal Maine.

For Those In Peril exhibits include a moving life raft; can you balance on it?  A full-scale model of a lighthouse; have you ever wondered how a lighthouse works, or how lighthouse keepers lived?  Our Victorian ship captain’s house will be a house in mourning, bringing to life first-hand accounts of disasters and their aftereffects.   Fishermen’s memorials and safety equipment and will be featured in our Gone Fishing exhibit, demonstrating the dangers and challenges of depending on the sea for a living.

Complementing For Those In Peril will be an exciting series of events throughout the season.  Penobscot Marine Museum will host a boat safety course, an Abandon Ship drill, weekly children’s activities, a lighthouse tour by sail, eight talks on rescues and shipwrecks, and much more.  This year Penobscot Marine Museum expanded its Heritage Vegetable Garden and offers a series of Heritage Garden talks.  Weekly Heritage Craft demonstrations and Food Heritage Talk and Demonstrations (with samples!) will take place in July and August.   For more information go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/events.

Penobscot Marine Museum, 40 East Main Street, Searsport, will be open for the 2013 season from Saturday, May 25 through Sunday, October 20, 2013.  The Museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Sunday noon to 5:00 pm.