# Event Details

- **Event Name**: "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join PMM Digital Curator Matt Wheeler on Thursday, April 30, 6:30 PM in the Picker Room for a visual tour of the sardine era in Maine. This talk will conclude the month-long exhibit Welcome to Sardineland on display in the Library Picker Room, from Penobscot Marine Museum. 

Mainers are resourceful: when out-of-state canning syndicates started marketing Maine juvenile herring as “sardines” late in the 19th century—partly as an answer to the strong European demand for this food commodity—local entrepreneurs made an industry out of it. For well over a century, sardines formed the economic, cultural, and social backbone of communities all along our state’s coast. The workforce in canneries included thousands of women, even more than the number of men fishing for herring, a groundswell that owed a lot to the popularity of sardines as military rations during WWII.

In the decades after the war, changes in American eating habits, competition for herring as bait, and federal quota restrictions led to the gradual collapse of this trend, ending with the closing of Maine’s last sardine cannery in 2010. Former boomtowns went bust; others reinvented themselves. 

This story is the basis for Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2024-25 campus-wide exhibit, Sardineland, which draws heavily from the museum’s holdings; their photo collections are burgeoning with images from the canneries, the packing competitions, the fishery, and the state’s marketing efforts.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/camden/welcome-to-sardineland-exhibit-talk-with-matt-wheeler-penobscot-marine-museum/200029895784026
- **Event Categories**: contests, business
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Camden
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Camden Public Library
- **lat**: 44.211575944221
- **long**: -69.064519107342
- **full address**: Camden Public Library, 55 Main St,Camden, Maine, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum being held?
  - **A:** "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum takes place on Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Camden Public Library, 55 Main St,Camden, Maine, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum?
  - **A:** "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum is organized by Camden Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Camden, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If "Welcome to Sardineland" Exhibit Talk with Matt Wheeler, Penobscot Marine Museum sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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