{"id":2000,"date":"2012-01-08T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:38:01","slug":"whaling-museum-new-bedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"New Bedford Whaling Museum Offers a “Sea” of Educational, Entertaining Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A whale skeleton at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (photo by Eric)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass., makes for a terrific, affordable family cultural travel destination with adult admission $14 and children only $6 (kids five and under free), at this writing.<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved the visit here, taking in the rich history of the New Bedford whaling industry through myriad interactive exhibits, a large whaling ship model that you can climb aboard, artifacts, fine and decorative arts, scrimshaw and eye catching whale skeletons. Not knowing a lot about the whaling industry before entering the Whaling Museum, I felt like I came out of here as a PhD, thanks to the incredibly knowledgeable staff that put no time limits on answering my questions about the whaling industry in New Bedford during the mid 1800s.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I find historical museums a bit stuffy and boring, but not the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Visiting on a school vacation day, I witnessed nearly 100 percent of adults and kids really taking an interest in the Whaling Museum presentations. What’s truly astounding is that I saw few people texting or on their cells phones or IPods (rather, a focus on a “pod” of whales here). Now that is a real testimony to how the Whaling Museum captures the interest of visitors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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