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Nantucket | Nantucket, MA
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Nantucket Museums & Sites

More than half a dozen Nantucket museums are open to visitors during the season, featuring exhibits on Nantucket whaling, island art, Nantucket shipwrecks, Nantucket Lightship Baskets, and more.

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Maria Mitchell Association
Museums, aquarium, observatories and environmental education through walks, workshops and classes for students of all ages on Nantucket. Read more...
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Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum
Telling the story of the heroic life-savers whose motto was: “You have to go out – but you don’t have to come back.” Read more...
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Nantucket Historical Association
The Whaling Museum and 6 historic sites preserve and interpret the history of Nantucket.appreciation and respect for their heritage. Read more...
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Lightship Basket Museum
In 2021,  the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum joined with the Nantucket Historical Association, and now the NLBM history, tradition, and craft is preserved in a new home with the NHA. In the Hadwen House on Read more...

Ric Burns Film at NHA

“Nantucket is a different sort of island.” See why – watch this trailer for the Ric Burns film “Nantucket,” showing in the Nantucket Whaling Museum.

Nantucket History & People