From Collections to Community: Adapting to Digital and Remote Learning Platforms

FAIN: GA-275920-20

Penobscot Marine Museum Maine's Oldest Maritime Museum (Searsport, ME 04974-3351)
Jeana Ganskop (Project Director: May 2020 to September 2024)

Retaining four existing positions in education, collections, and curatorial departments and adding a new museum educator to develop new digital programs on the history of the Penobscot Bay region.

The Penobscot Marine Museum will develop a new approach to public programming that responds to the coronavirus pandemic, adapts previously planned educational programming, and creates new initiatives that work across multiple digital and remote learning platforms. This will engage professional humanities staff to develop a speaker series, create live and pre-recorded videos, generate social media content, facilitate interactive club experiences, collaborate on remote learning opportunities for K-6 students, and develop new innovative digital projects. The team will draw from PMM’s rich collection of photographs, documents, and objects to create content and learning experiences that further the Museum’s humanities work and make a meaningful community impact.