All Museums

Museums, aquarium, observatories and environmental education through walks, workshops and classes for students of all ages on Nantucket.

The Whaling Museum and 6 historic sites preserve and interpret the history of Nantucket.appreciation and respect for their heritage.

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 upper main street, visitors can

Telling the story of the heroic life-savers whose motto was: “You have to go out – but you don’t have to come back.”