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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.
Aymar, Brandt (1967). A pictorial treasury of the marine museums of the world.New York, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. OCLC 1303121. Howe, Hartley Edward (1987).
Nantucket Massachusetts Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum: No N/A N/A Replica Narragansett Rhode Island Coast Guard House [18] U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station: NRHP 76000010: June 30, 1976 Restaurant Nauset Massachusetts
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are 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.
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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.
The museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays-Mondays (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and admission is $20 for adults, $13 for ages 4-12, free for ages 3 and younger, $17 for ages 65 and older, $17 ...
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