Winter Discovery Days
Free programming in the Whaling Museum’s Discovery Room! Kids ages 4-12 will enjoy a different craft activity each afternoon. Weekly...More Read more from Winter Discovery Days
Today • April 21 • at the NHA
Whaling Museum open February 7-March 31, 2019
Thursday-Sunday 10am-4pm
Whaling Museum open April 1-25
Daily 10am-4pm
Today's whaling museum schedule
Whaling Museum open
February 7-March 31, 2019
Thursday-Sunday 10am-4pm
On This Day in Nantucket History
April 21, 1844Read more from April 21, 1844
On this day in 1844, Nantucket voters put segregationists on the island's school committee -- which was full of abolitionists -- to reverse the committee's original decision to integrate Nantucket's public schools. Read more from April 21, 1844
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Food For Thought: “The Battle to Integrate Nantucket Schools Before the Civil War” with Barbara White
Join NHA Research Fellow Barbara White for a lecture on the struggle to integrate Nantucket Public Schools prior to the...More Read more from Food For Thought: “The Battle to Integrate Nantucket Schools Before the Civil War” with Barbara White
Food For Thought: Methods & Discoveries in the Articulation of Large Whale Skeletons for Exhibitions
Since 1991, Dan DenDanto has worked professionally with marine mammal stranding response networks to promote the acquisition of marine mammal...More Read more from Food For Thought: Methods & Discoveries in the Articulation of Large Whale Skeletons for Exhibitions
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