In Search of Giant Squid!Whaling Museum, McCausland GalleryFebruary–June 2008
The National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition: In Search of Giant Squid.More Read more from In Search of Giant Squid!
Past Exhibitions
Paintings of Rebecca CoffinNHA Research Library, Whitney GalleryMay–November 2007
Beginning in the 1880s, Rebecca Coffin began to summer regularly on Nantucket, painting brilliant genre scenes and portraits that capture the quaint and fading way of life of post-whaling Nantucket. More Read more from Paintings of Rebecca Coffin
The Nantucket Art Colony 1920 – 1945Whaling Museum, McCausland GalleryJune–November 2007
With the waterfront painters, and the influx of many talented visiting artists, the Art Colony flourished, bringing about a rebirth of the waterfront and a transformation at the heart of the island’s identity from a whaling port dependent on the sea to a haven and harbor for the arts.More Read more from The Nantucket Art Colony 1920 – 1945
Eliza Brock’s Journal on the Ship LexingtonDigital exhibit2010
The entire journal of Eliza Spencer Brock (1810-1899) wife of Captain Peter C. Brock (1805-78), aboard the whaleship Lexington during a voyage from May 21, 1853, to June 25, 1856.More Read more from Eliza Brock’s Journal on the Ship Lexington
Nantucket NightmareDigital Exhibit2010
Richard C. Maloney created this series of editorial cartoons that appeared in the Inquirer and Mirror under the signature “Atropos”. It remains a mystery to this day whether the identity of “Atropos” was ever revealed in his lifetime.More Read more from Nantucket Nightmare
Andrea DoriaWhaling Museum, McCausland GallerySeptember–December 2006
Commemorating the collision of the Italian luxury liner and the Swedish ship Stockholm, due south of Nantucket, the exhibition included articles from the disaster scene, including a life vest and suitcase. More Read more from Andrea Doria
Signs of the Times: Nantucket SignsWhaling Museum, McCausland GalleryMay–November 2006
The signs—from shops, markets, offices, ephemeral sites, the hospital, hotels, and restaurants—provide a collective memory of the Nantucket community and offer access to people and places half forgotten or never known.More Read more from Signs of the Times: Nantucket Signs
Susan Boardman’s Embroidered Narratives of Notable Nantucket WomenNHA Research Library, Whitney GalleryJune–December 2006
The Nantucket Historical Association's second exhibition of artwork by Susan Boardman. More Read more from Susan Boardman’s Embroidered Narratives of Notable Nantucket Women
Scallop Season: A Nantucket ChronicleNHA Research Library, Whitney GalleryOctober–December 2003
Patrick and Benchley followed Nantucket’s scalloping community through 1999-2000. As the season unfolds it quickly becomes evident that almost everyone on the island has some connection to scalloping in their life, and the thread of community soon began to weave its own tale.More Read more from Scallop Season: A Nantucket Chronicle
Nantucket RootsNHA Research Library, Whitney GalleryMay–November 2006
Nantucket family registers form an important part of a folk cultural tradition that developed in New England in the mid-eighteenth century. Family members turned to illustrated registers most often to commemorate a marriage, or to memorialize a recent death in the family. More Read more from Nantucket Roots
JAG! Cape Verdean Heritage on NantucketNHA Research Library, Whitney GalleryOctober 2002–February 2003
An exhibition documenting the lives and history of Nantucket’s Cape Verdean community.More Read more from JAG! Cape Verdean Heritage on Nantucket
Views from Town and Country from the NHA CollectionWhitney Gallery, Research Library
View a selection of landscape paintings from the NHA’s permanent collection on display in the Whitney Gallery at the Research Library.More Read more from Views from Town and Country from the NHA Collection