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Videoconferencing and New Bedford Citizen Schools

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:35:46 CST

The New Bedford Whaling Museum has many diverse goals, not all of which are devoted to the specifics of whaling history. Part of the institution’s mission is to promote the local history and heritage of the city and region, and there are many programs devoted to this specific cause.

New Exhibit at the New Bedford Whaling Museum

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:32:18 CST

Needlework as an art, craft, and industry has played a significant role in the history of New Bedford and its environs. The plying of needle and thread – whether domestic or commercial, for ornamental or utilitarian purposes – symbolizes the impact of whaling both as a source of wealth and a means of subsistence. The lives and work of merchants’ and captains’ wives and daughters; seamstresses, dressmakers, and tailors; embroiderers and knitters; sail- and flag-makers; and the whalemen who carved exquisite scrimshaw needlework tools for the women in their lives, demonstrate the complexities and contradictions inherent in the domestic ideal and working realities of needlework.

New Bedford Whaling Museum President Anne Brengle to head Coast Guard Foundation

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:29:41 CST

As you may or may not know, the Whaling Museum’s president and CEO Anne Brengle will be leaving the her position after 13 years at the institution. She has accepted a wonderful opportunity to become president of the Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the United States Coast Guard through a variety of means.

New Bedford Whaling Museum: The Interactive Direction of Museums

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:26:12 CDT

Museums are often looked upon as bastions of the “old.” They are home to items, both natural and man-made, that can date back millions of years.

New Bedford Benefits from Mass. Cultural Council

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:08:33 CDT

Cultural institutions across the state (and the country for that matter) depend greatly on outside sources for support, and recently, both the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Zeiterion Theatre became recipients of some wonderful news.

New Bedford Whaling Museum - More To It Than Meets The Eye

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:43:10 CDT

The New Bedford Whaling Museum, like many of the cultural organizations in New England (and the rest of the world for that matter), has much more to it than meets the eye. For every object on display there are 50 in storage. For every elementary or high school that visits, there are dozens of students. And for every story contained within its walls, there are thousands more yet to be told.

Window Exhibits at the Whaling Museum Research Library

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:39:22 CDT

The New Bedford Whaling Museum welcomes over 100,000 visitors through its doors each year. These guests are treated to ship models, whale skeletons, beautiful scrimshaw pieces, photographs, weaponry, household items and thousands of other objects that, together, tell the story of whaling in New Bedford.

Whaling Museum Party Goes Over the Top

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:27:08 CDT

On Saturday, August 18 from 7-11 p.m., the New Bedford Whaling Museum will hold its second annual summer party, Over the Top – Under the Stars. Like last year’s Over the Top, this event will be held in the most unique space on the South Coast – the Museum’s plaza and Jacobs Family Gallery, under the hanging bones of the blue whale.

New Bedford Teachers Participate in Institute at the Whaling Museum

no@spam.com (New Bedford Whaling Museum) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:36:29 CDT

Last week, the Whaling Museum hosted the annual teacher institute, Portraits of a Port, in which educators from New Bedford Public schools gathered at the Whaling Museum’s Research Library to explore, learn, and share ideas about incorporating aspects of local history into their curriculums. The focus this year was on the people and places of New Bedford during the time of the Civil War, 1860-1865.