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Learn more about the Panorama related events, exhibitions, media coverage, free audio tour, museum publications and more.

All aboard! Museum volunteers will take you on a voyage aboard the whaleship Kutusoff in 1842, from start to finish.

Each moderated 30-minute program will feature two specialists who will discuss the topics of their interest, trends, initiatives or projects – of relevance to our local historical landscape.

Dr. Jason Mancini’s talk focuses on the hundreds of Indians that found work in the ports of Mystic, Stonington, and New London and explores their “roots and “routes.”

Join more than 100,000 film lovers across 300 cinemas and six continents to simultaneously screen and vote on the Finalists’ Films.

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures – Author Nick Pyenson’s research has given us the answers to some of our biggest questions about whales.

Let New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and the Grand Panorama take you around the world and back in time with music inspired by the sea and exotic ports of call.

Author John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II.

Taking part during the opening of the exhibition titled Portugal and the Great War: Contexts and Protagonists (1914-1918).

Vacation Week activities and other programs such as the Presidents' Day Birthday Celebration.

The Museum creates or partners with community groups and organizations to present a wide variety of public programming.

The Moby-Dick Marathon, Sailors’ Series illustrated lectures and Scrimshaw Weekend are some of the anticipated events along with others throughout the year.

Programs offered at the Museum in past years can be found here.