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Upcoming events
June and July
Workshops
Paid workshops for families in nautical arts and crafts: navigation, model boats, metalwork, and photography
Details and registration
June 6, 2023 7-9pm
Virginia Homecoming Dinner at
JR Maxwell & Co
And before the dinner, see an exhibit by Keith Spiro at Patten Free Library 5-6:30pm
Details
Sold out
June 7, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Wabanaki Warriors of WWII
We did not ask; they did not tell
Talk: Harald E.L. Prins
Details and registration
June 14, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Bateaux to Canada
Rob Stevens - Shipwright
Details and registration
June 21, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Construction and Operation of Jamestown's Godspeed
Eric Speth
Details and registration
June 27-29 2023
Windjammer Days
Virginia
visits Boothbay Harbor
Details soon
June 28, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Sail Training Experiences on Tall Ships
Getting kids off their phones and out to sea
Alex Agnew
Details and registration
July 12, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
We Fed the Pilgrims
Cod Fisheries and Early European Settlement of New England
Mike Dekker
Details and registration
July 19, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Period Music of the 1600's
Lecture and Demonstration
Julia Lane - Castlebay
Details and registration
July 26, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 1
Early Navigators 1497-1583
Dan Wood
Details and registration
August 2, 2023 7-8pm
2023 Lecture Series
Popham History 2
Later Navigators and Colony Preparations 1584-1607
Dan Wood
Details and registration
Past Events
Launch
Virginia
Join us to celebrate the launch of the pinnace
Virginia
at the Bath Freight Shed.
Details and Videos
Recorded
Virginia's First Voyage
Virginia
goes to Wiscasset
Details and Images
Complete
Virginia
returns to Bath
Virginia
travels at first light from Wiscasset to the Maine Maritime Museum
Compete
Annual Meeting 2023
View Annual Report and MFS video
Annual Report and Video
Complete
17th Century Foodways
Free demonstration of 17 Century cooking
Outside the Bath Freight Shed
Details
Complete
Full Moon Dinner
Chinese Hot Pots with fresh local produce
Chris Toy and Jeff Mao
Details
Complete
Maine's First People
Women Who Paddled the Waterways
Bunny McBride, author
Details and video
Recorded
Samoset the Wawenock: Indigenous-Settler Relations in the 17th Century
Jody Bachelder, author
Details and video
Recorded
Picturing Maine's Indigenous Context
Colonialism and the Penobscot
Liam Riordan, Professor of History, U Maine
Details and video
Recorded
Tribes and their Interactions with the Ship Builders
John Bear Mitchell, Wabanaki Confederacy
Details and video
Recorded
Tall Ships America
50 Years of Education at Sea
Nick Hardisty, historian
Details and video
Recorded
The Nature Conservancy
History, Justice, and Collaborative Conservation
Kate Dempsey
Details and video
Recorded
Early English Voyages to the New World
Margaret J. Wilson, author of Norembega Navigators
Details and video
Recorded
The Popham Colony
Where Fact Meets Fiction
Richard deVillers Seymour, author
Details and video
Recorded
English and Wabanaki Watercraft
Tools of Trade, Diplomacy, and War
Neill DePaoli
Details and video
Recorded
The 500 million year geologic history of Casco Bay
David West, Department of Geology, Middlebury College
Details and Video
Recorded
The Diseased Ship: New England Sea Captains and the Slave Trade
Meadow Dibble, Maine Humanities Council Sponsored Speaker
Details and Video
Recorded
Founding Fish - 17th Century Cod Fishing
Mike Dekker, Author and Historian
Details and Video
Recorded
The Conservation of Fort St George Artifacts
Molly O'Ginness Carlson, Objects Conservator
Details and Video
Recorded
Women's Shipbuilding Day
Join our shipwright Rob Stevens for a day of fun with tools and friends.
Details
Complete
Fiber Day
Maine Craft Weekend
Details
Complete
Fiber Day Talk
Connecting with the Modern Maya
Lori Benson
Maine Craft Weekend
Details and video
Recorded