Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
By Maddie Arthur The Second Annual Nantucket Green Crab Week is July 12-16, 2021. This week will be packed with family-friendly events so that you can learn more about the invasive European green crab and find out what you can do to help Nantucket’s marine environment. Nantucket Green Crab Week […]
Starting Monday, June 7, the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) will be offering another summer of education, research, and exploration of the sky, land, and sea of Nantucket Island. The Aquarium on Washington Street and Historic Mitchell House on Vestal Street will be open for tours on Monday through Friday […]
The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association and Nantucket Community School have brought their annual Science Festival into your home! Their planned festival was canceled due to the pandemic, but they still want to share the fun and learning of science with island children. To participate, choose your favorite science activities (suggestions […]
The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) is hosting a lecture by Dr. Christopher Niezrecki, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML). The talk, entitled “Wind and Renewable Energy and Why it is Important for Our Future,” will take place on Wednesday, August 28 from 7 […]
The Nantucket Science Festival is back for another exciting year. On March 16, 2019, join the Maria Mitchell Association and the Nantucket Community School, along with many community partners, for hands-on, interactive activities for all ages from preschool to adult. The Nantucket Science Festival is all about connecting people with […]
The Maria Mitchell Association’s Natural Science Museum will be open on Saturdays this winter from 10 am to 2pm. While open, the Museum will run a feeding program, “Very Hungry Vertebrates,” in the mornings. “We are delighted to offer year round families and winter visitors an opportunity to enjoy our […]
by Katherine Brooks Maria Mitchell Association Among the historic gray-shingled houses of Vestal Street and hidden in the gardens of the Maria Mitchell Association’s Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, sits a whale skull found thirty years ago at Cisco Beach. The bone belongs to a right whale: an endangered species […]