Whaling Museum
The New Bedford Whaling Museum ignites learning through explorations of art, history, science, and culture, rooted in the stories of people, the region, and an international seaport. As a compelling destination that anchors a national park and vibrant urban seaport, we encourage exploration of our region’s cultural, artistic, historic, and scientific contributions. A keeper of the region’s collective memory, the Museum preserves a communal story of the many who settled in the City that lit the world and of those who keep the light shining brightly today. From abolitionists to immigrants, merchants to whalers, seamstresses to fisherman, and artists to environmentalists, the New Bedford Whaling Museum boldly weaves their narratives together, inviting visitors to examine complex and sometime difficult topics that are shaped by our past, remain critical today and inform a sustainable future.
The Portuguese Lusophone-World Lecture Series: Activist Journalism on the Portuguese Revolution
Sailors’ Series: Young Sailors, Big Horizons
Tracing your Ancestors Researching Cape Verdean Genealogy
Cape Verdean Identity in Contemporary Art
Moby Dick Book Club Session 3: Chapter 96 to the Epilogue
Moby Dick Book Club Session 2: Chapter 48 to Chapter 95
Cape Verdean Independence and the Making of a Nation
Moby Dick Book Club: Session 1 Extracts to Chapter 47
LOCAL HISTORY GUILD | Whale Communication & Ocean Noise
Echoes of Pico: Exploring Azorean Whaling, History, and Heritage
Sailors’ Series: A Voyage to the Arctic with Captain Graham McKay
New Bedford Whaling Museum 2024 Highlights
122nd Annual Members’ Meeting
LOCAL HISTORY GUILD | SouthCoast Women Creating Change
Sweet Freedom: Panel Discussion
The Portuguese and Lusophone-World Lecture Series Malassadas Day: Panel Discussion
Moby Dick Marathon 2025 Chapter 86 to Epilogue
Moby Dick Marathon 2025 Chapter 40 to 85
The Making of The Wider World & Scrimshaw, Part II
The Making of The Wider World & Scrimshaw, Part I
Moby Dick Marathon 2025: Extracts to Chapter 39
The Portuguese & Lusophone-world Lecture Series, Kenneth David Jackson
Conversation with artists Courtney M. Leonard and Holly Mitituq Nordlum
Sailors’ Series | Featuring Lin Pardey
The Portuguese & Lusophone-world Lecture Series, with Katherine Vaz
Local History Guild | Seals and Society: An Evolving Relationship
Local History Guild: Hiapo and Links Between New Bedford and Niue
The New Bedford Whaling Museum: Curiosity Calls #Shorts