Searsport marine museum seeks help

SEARSPORT – The Penobscot Marine Museum is seeking volunteers to work in all museum departments, now open for the summer season.

According to Mac Deford, PMM director, “The museum needs additional interpreters who, after a brief period of training, provide information to visitors about its various collections, buildings and exhibits. Some interpreters are stationed in one building; others are roamers and cover a variety of different positions across the museum’s campus.”

Volunteers are also needed in the Stephen Phillips Memorial Library. “We are happy to have help on the reference desk, developing our collections database, writing ‘finding aids’ for our manuscript collections and organizing photographic collections,” said Deford.

“There are specific research projects to do, and we always need help researching and answering inquiries on maritime history and genealogy.”

Volunteers who are interested in gardening or working on the grounds this summer are needed, including people with landscaping experience. The store also can use help in the summer and training is available.

For more information, call Diane Flynn at 548-2529.

Founded in 1936, the Penobscot Marine Museum is Maine’s oldest maritime museum. It is dedicated to the documentation, preservation and exhibition of the history of the Penobscot Bay region and the maritime history of the state of Maine. Located on Route 1 and Church Street in Searsport, the campus comprises eight National Historic Register sites and the modern Stephen Phillips Memorial Library and the Douglas and Margaret Carver Memorial Art Gallery.

The museum is open Memorial Day weekend through mid-October, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. For further information about Penobscot Marine Museum, log onto www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org.