Upcoming Exhibitions - New Bedford Whaling Museum

Upcoming Exhibitions

The State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource

November 20, 2026

March 1, 2027

Guggenheim award-winning photographer Brad Temkin celebrates water as a resource and reveals the architectural inventiveness and infrastructure of wastewater engineering.

Boundless: The Book as Art

October 16, 2026

February 15, 2027

What is a book? In its simplest form, it is a repository of words, images, information, or ideas but how can a book be reinterpreted or altered and still be a book? Where is “art” in bookmaking? How do design, structure, and materiality relate to the book as art?

New Ecologies: May Babcock

November 20, 2026

April 19, 2027

Providence based artist May Babcock (b. 1986) is an eco-centric artist that creates paper works and sculptural forms from natural materials she sources from local environments. In her most recent body of work, on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in November of 2026, she creates a collection of “new ecologies” constructed from natural sites around southern New England.

Examine Bradford’s artwork alongside contemporary art on climate change and Eastern Arctic lifeways

A community workshop series and exhibition celebrating Guatemalan storytelling and experience