On Saturday, November 5, from 1 to 4 pm, The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will host the first ever Fiesta in their Whaling Museum on Broad Street. As the NHA’s definition of a community is broad and encompassing, it looks forward to engaging a larger part of the island community […]
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Celebrate the Anniversary of Nantucket’s Old Mill on October 22
On Saturday, October 22 from 11 am to 4 pm, the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will host a fun-filled family program celebrating the 125th anniversary since the organization purchased the Old Mill in 1897. The event will be held at the Old Mill at 50 Prospect Street and is free […]
New Holographic Experience: Opens in the Nantucket Whaling Museum on May 29
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 obstacles, they each assumed roles and attitudes that were not common for women of their time. Now holographic technology has […]
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Partners with the NHA
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 spirit of this mission, during the past five months, the NHA has been in discussion with the Nantucket Lightship Basket […]
More than 20 Unique Nantucket Experiences and Items to Bid On in NHA Auction
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 youngster a whale of a birthday party. These fun experiences and a dozen others are up for auction in the […]
Nantucket Whaling Museum to Reopen February 12, 2021
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 safe will continue. Visitors can help by reserving a timed slot online. The Festival of Trees remains on display through […]
NHA University Continues & New Historic Properties Webinar Series to Launch in January
NHA University Continues & New Historic Properties Webinar Series to Launch in January 2021.