The Whaling Museum sits in a former candle factory in Nantucket Town. Admission starts at $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and students, and $5 for kids ages 6 to 17. Children 5 and younger enter ...

So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts, was still the center of the whaling industry in the early 19th century. But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had ...

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Handy Events. For a celebration that truly honors ACK’s roots, gather friends and family at the Nantucket Whaling Museum, which pays tribute to an industry that was once the island’s lifeblood.

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

The impressive Whaling Museum, curated by the Nantucket Historical Society, is not to be missed. The unique exhibit brings to life the powerful, and often times tormented, history of the whaling ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...