The holiday season will be celebrated with Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum this year on Friday, December 4th and Saturday, December 5th. The ship captain’s house will be open to the public with each room decorated for a Victorian Christmas by community groups and businesses, including the Congregational Church Women’s Fellowship Group, Searsport Historical Society, Searsport Beautification Committee, Blue Jacket Shipcrafters, Bangor Savings Bank and Searsport Antique Mall. There will be refreshments, music performed by boatbuilder Ralph Stanley and his fiddle group, and volunteers from Searsport’s Carver Library will be reading from 19 Christmas favorites.
On Friday night the Museum Store will host a “Meet the Maine Authors” party in celebration of the annual Town of Searsport Tree Lighting party on Crescent. The museum’s annual gingerbread competition “Maritime Christmas Gingerbread By the Sea” will be on display and refreshments will be served.
Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum, 2 Church Street, Searsport, is Friday, December 4th, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and Saturday, December 5, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission is free.
About Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot Marine Museum is twelve buildings on three acres in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Check the website for activities and events. Exhibits include hands-on activities for children and adults, as well as a ship captain's house, marine paintings, scrimshaw, 19th century Chinese and Japanese pottery, paintings and textiles, historic Maine boats, a fisheries exhibit, and an heirloom vegetable garden. The museum is open seven days a week, Memorial Day weekend through the third weekend in October. The Museum Store and Museum Framer have winter hours. For more information go to www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org or call the Visitors Center 207-548-0334 or Administrative Offices at 207-548-2529.
