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  2. Nantucket Life-Saving Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum features over 5,000 objects and memorabilia gathered from local shipwrecks from the past 300 years. The collection includes period surfboats, beach carts, Fresnel lenses from Brant Point and Great Point lights, vintage photographs, models of lifesaving stations throughout the island of Nantucket, and models of ships that have wrecked in the past few centuries.

  3. Nantucket Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Nantucket Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses the entire island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The original December 13, 1966 listing on the National Register of Historic Places included only the historic downtown core and the village of Siasconset , but was expanded in 1975 to include the entire island ...

  4. List of shipwrecks of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    A steam-powered ocean liner that collided with Florida south of Nantucket Island: Stephano United Kingdom: 8 October 1916 Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944

  5. Nantucket Whaling Museum - Wikipedia

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    Restored in 2005, the Nantucket Whaling Museum has an expanded exhibit and program space that connects the 1847 Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory and the 1971 Peter Foulger Museum. The new structure includes the Gosnell Hall Whale Hunt Gallery, where a 46 foot (14 meter) long sperm whale skeleton is suspended from the ceiling.

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  7. List of museums in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  8. Has mystery of shipwreck exposed by erosion been solved?

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  9. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Newport Harbor Maritime Museum: Y California: Oxnard: Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum: California: Port Hueneme: US Navy SeaBee Museum: California: Richmond: Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site: California: Samoa: Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum: California: San Diego: San Diego Maritime Museum: Y California: San Francisco