Tag: Nantucket Historical Association

Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
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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 […]

Nantucket Whaling Museum
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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 […]

Huggins Painting of Nantucket History
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Preserving Island History: New Acquisitions by the Nantucket Historical Association

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 Milo Calkin’s memoir documenting his time aboard the Nantucket whaleship Independence, an Albert C. Gardner tooth, and the painting Northern […]