Rights and Usage - New Bedford Whaling Museum

Rights and Usage

Information about commercial and educational usage of images from the Museum’s collection.

Rights and Usage

The New Bedford Whaling Museum charges licensing fees for commercial use of materials provided. These fees help support our ongoing efforts to care for our collections.

If you have questions about licensing materials for commercial use please contact the Museum’s Photo Archive photoresearch@whalingmuseum.org and/or download and submit our Permissions Application.

Please search our Online Collections Database Search to explore our collections.

If we do not already have a digital file of the image or object, the following fees will be applied:

  • Scans to 50MB = $35.00
  • Scans for non-profit 50MB or less scan = $25
  • Scans greater than 50MB and to 100MB = $50.00
  • Scans greater than 100MB = $75.00
  • Digital Image Capture (from flat work up to 16×20) = $50.00
  • Digital Image Capture (from flat work larger than 16×20 = $75.00
  • Digital Image Capture (3-D work) = $150.00