February Vacation Week

Tuesday, February 21 - Saturday, February 25 
 

Visit the Whaling Museum during February Vacation Week for children's activities and programs! Regular admission rates to galleries apply.
 
 

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, February 21
Highlights Tours, 10:00am and 1:00pm
Join a docent-led tour and see the highlights of the Museum. Tours leave from the front desk. Regular admission rates apply. Participants have the opportunity to go below deck on the Lagoda.
Moby-Dick Tour, 11:00am
Docents bring the characters and action from Herman Melville’s great American novel to life through a tour of the Museum’s collection. The tour will leave from the front desk. Regular admission rates apply.
Crafts in the Jacobs Family Gallery, 10:00am to 12:00pm. FREE.
 
Wednesday, February 22
Highlights Tours, 10:00am and 1:00pm
Join a docent-led tour and see the highlights of the Museum. Tours leave from the front desk. Regular admission rates apply. Participants have the opportunity to go below deck on the Lagoda.
Make your own scrimshaw, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Create your own scrimshaw and take it home as a keepsake. Other crafts will be available. FREE.
  
Thursday, February 23
Highlights Tours, 10:00am and 1:00pm
Join a docent-led tour and see the highlights of the Museum. Tours leave from the front desk. Regular admission rates apply. Participants have the opportunity to go below deck on the Lagoda.
Make your own sailors' valentines, 10:00am to 12:00pm.
Create your own sailors' valentines and take them home as a keepsake. Other crafts will be available. FREE.
  
Friday, February 24
Highlights Tours, 10:00am and 1:00pm
Join a docent-led tour and see the highlights of the Museum. Tours leave from the front desk. Regular admission rates apply. Participants have the opportunity to go below deck on the Lagoda.
All aboard the Lagoda! 10:00am - 12:00pm (v0yage 10:30-11:30)
Join the crew of Captain Calvinilius Weade (or C. Weade, for short) on board the Lagoda for an adventure on the high seas! Travel the world, interact with foreign people, learn the ropes of the whaleship, and go a-whaling. Regular admission applies.
 
Saturday, February 25
Valentines Day II, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Wrap up school vacation week with a second Valentine's Day celebration! At Valentine's Day II, you can learn where chocolate comes from, how it came to colonial New England, and how cocoa was made in early America.
Participate in a FREE demonstration of colonial-style chocolate making. Free samples from American Heritage Chocolate will be provided. Authors Christopher Kelly, Dr. Timothy Walker (UMASS Dartmouth), and Rodney Snyder (Mars, Inc.) will discuss the history of chocolate, and the chapters they contributed to Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage, Louis Grivetti and Howard Shapiro, editors (Wiley, 2009).  Copies, signed by the authors, will be available at the Museum store.