Life on remote, windswept Nantucket has always fostered extraordinary women. Intelligent, educated, passionate, and brave, they took on difficult issues involving anti-slavery, women’s rights, suffrage, and times of war. Despite…
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) preserves and interprets the history of Nantucket through programs, collections, and properties, to promote the island’s significance and foster an appreciation of it. In the…
Go to gaol on Nantucket (or send someone else), stay overnight in the historic Thomas Macy House, be Nantucket’s miller for a day at the Old Mill, give your favorite…
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will reopen the Whaling Museum on Friday, February 12, with free admission for our year-round island community. Robust sanitizing measures to make the indoor experience…
NHA University Continues & New Historic Properties Webinar Series to Launch in January 2021.
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) has made the difficult decision to close their Whaling Museum until further notice due to this week’s surge in COVID-19 cases on Nantucket. On Saturday,…
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will be hosting two of their most popular holiday events this November and December, they announced this week. Due to special guidance due to the…
Three significant items–a painting, a memoir, and a scrimshawed whale’s tooth–have been added to the Nantucket Historical Association‘s (NHA’s) Permanent Collection. The Trustees of the NHA announce the acquisition of…