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New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hl, 02740-6398About
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The museum, through its collections and exhibitions, tells the story of the international whaling industry and the history more generally of the "Old Dartmouth" area, the Southcoast of Massachusetts. Its collection contains over 750,000 items, including 3,000 pieces of scrimshaw and 2,500 logbooks (handwritten accounts of whaling voyages), both of which are the largest collections in the world. The scrimshaw collection is featured in the book "Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved" published by David R. Godine, Publisher.
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