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AHA! We HeART NB
Thursday, February 9 | 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Say "Forever Yours" at the New Bedford Whaling Museum with a color-your-own greeting card based on a Sailor's Valentine! Featuring small seashells arranged in a symmetrical pattern, Sailor's Valentines were a popular 19th-century souvenir for sailors to give their sweethearts left on shore. Come color and then explore for FREE the New Bedford Whaling Museum's first floor including our temporary exhibition, Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes.
Arctic Tale: Movie Time & Craft
Saturday, February 18 | 9:30 am
Calling all families - Come and join fellow explorers as we tour the icy winter wonderland of the Arctic this February School Vacation at the New Bedford Whaling Museum! Experience the adventures of an unlikely pair, a polar bear cub named Nanu and a young walrus named Seela, as they grow up in their frozen homeland. This showing of Arctic Tale highlights the everyday lives of these creatures as well as the challenges they face due to climate change.
February Vacation Week
Monday - Friday, February 20-24 | 9:30 - 11:30 am
During the vacation weekdays we will have a variety of Arctic activities from 9:30-11:30 each morning (Monday-Friday). Examples include crafts, take home activity sheets, a trivia game based on clues put up around the Jacobs Family Gallery (Our Whales Today Gallery), we will connect to the live camera in the San Diego Zoo Polar Bear habitat, and we will do a reading of the book ‘Recess at 20 Below’ by Cindy Lou Aillaud
5TH ANNUAL IGNITE: YOUTH SHOWCASE OF ART INSPIRED BY HISTORIC WOMEN OF THE SOUTHCOAST
Thursday, March 9 | 5:30 - 6:30 pm
For the fifth year in a row, young artists in grades 4 through 12 are being invited to create original artworks inspired by Lighting the Way: Historic Women of the SouthCoast. This year, youth are encouraged to highlight the accomplishments and stories of women of color featured on the Lighting the Way website. The artworks will be exhibited at the New Bedford Whaling Museum March 7 - 25th to celebrate Women’s History Month. A special opening event will take place Thursday, March 9, 5:30 - 6:30 PM in the Harborview Gallery. The opening event is part of AHA! Night and is free and open to the public.
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Permanent Gallery spotlight
Whales Today
An exhibition dedicated to the science and behavior of whales, their cultural impact, the current threats to their survival, and empowering all to support conservation efforts.
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