Tales & Treasure: From the Attic & Archive April 13, 2010

Journey back to the 1800s through the rare glimpses of hidden gems now on view from the Whaling Museum's archives. Explore objects, their stories, and adventures brought to light including an eighteen-foot dugout canoe from Liberia used to transport free blacks, lamps on display for the first time, the museum's best scrimshaw pieces, Edward Lange paintings, a woman's whalebone corset, and logbooks detailing rescues and shipwrecks.