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28-668: First held in 2004 in New Bedford, the Azorean Maritime Heritage Society's International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta is a major regional event and attraction. It alternates every other year between New Bedford and the Azores and attracts spectators and wooden boat enthusiasts, civic leaders, and dignitaries from the U.S., Azores, and mainland Portugal. The Regatta week is packed with whaleboat rowing and sailing races, as well as cultural presentations, lectures, and dinners. In 2017,

56-441: A sperm whale , and a pregnant mother and fetus North Atlantic right whale . All of the specimens came from animals that either died accidentally or by undetermined circumstances, and were not killed as a result of whaling. The first skeleton to be acquired was a 37-foot (11 m) three-year-old male humpback whale named Quasimodo, which died in 1932. The blue whale is a 66-foot (20 m) juvenile male named KOBO . The sperm whale

84-463: A scholarship dinner to raise funds for college-bound high school students. This Massachusetts -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Azores -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New Bedford Whaling Museum The New Bedford Whaling Museum is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts , United States that focuses on

112-762: A twenty-minute short film titled The City that Lit the World courtesy of the National Park Service. 1996 was also the year of the first annual Moby-Dick Marathon Reading. In 1998, the New Bedford Whaling Museum collaborated with the Azorean Maritime Heritage Society to build the Azorean Whaleman Gallery, an exhibition devoted to the contributions of Azorean sailors and whaleboat builders to US whaling history. In August 2000,

140-464: Is 89 feet (27 m) in length and has a mainmast 50 feet (15 m) in height, making it the world's largest model whaling ship. It is fully rigged and showcases some of the supplies needed for an extended whaling voyage. The Bourne Building also houses a permanent installation that explores the Azorean impact on the growth and development of Southern New England and of New Bedford in particular, which

168-440: Is a 48-foot (15 m) 30-year-old male. The right whales include a 49-foot (15 m) 15-year-old female named Reyna that was ten months pregnant and her fetus. This exhibit explores the region of Old Dartmouth from the 1602 landing of English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold to the dominance of New Bedford in the whaling industry. It explores themes related to religion, geography, and maritime commerce, which combined to influence

196-444: Is home to a vibrant Azorean community . The exhibit contains many artifacts related to whaling in the Azores and the islanders' journey to a new life in the US via a "bridge of whale ships." The exhibit features a half-scale model of an Azorean whaleboat and a vigia , an Azorean whaling lookout. The museum is home to five fully articulated whale skeletons: a blue whale , a humpback whale ,

224-529: Is interred in the Rural Cemetery. He was a prominent attorney in New Bedford. Among his clients was Hetty Green . William Wallace Crapo was a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in his undergraduate years at Yale University . He graduated in 1852 and was a member of Skull and Bones . On April 15, 1851, Crapo visited Brown University , on which date he is credited with initiating 17 members of

252-486: The New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park , although operated independently. The museum also houses a collection of fine art, including works by major American artists who lived or worked in the New Bedford area, such as Albert Bierstadt , William Bradford , and Albert Pinkham Ryder , as well as a collection of locally produced decorative art, glassware, and furniture associated with

280-504: The 1910s and 1920s. In 1914, the ODHS appointed Frank Wood as the curator and first full-time staff member. In 1915, Emily Bourne donated the Bourne Building in memory of her father, Jonathan Bourne Jr. She also contributed funds for the construction of a half-sized model of her father's ship Lagoda , which was built inside the Bourne Building in 1916. Nationwide interest in whaling history

308-867: The International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta week celebrated the Society's 20th Anniversary and the 20th birthday of the first Azorean whaleboat launched in America – the Bela Vista, as well as the opening of an exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum by photographers Gemina Garland-Lewis and O. Louis Mazzatenta of a “then and now” picture of Azorean whaling and the men who were a part of this unique world, in Azorean Whalemen: A Photographic Retrospective . The New Bedford Whaling Museum and

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336-595: The Jacobs Family Gallery was built thanks to the donation of Irwin and Joan Jacobs. The humpback whale skeleton Quasimodo was moved to the new Jacobs Family Gallery and suspended alongside a new juvenile blue whale skeleton, named KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean). In October 2001, negotiations began to merge the Kendall Whaling Museum , which was founded in 1955 by Henry P. Kendall and opened in 1956, with

364-544: The Masonic Lodge on the corner of Pleasant and Union Streets. By 1904, their membership had grown to almost 700, and collections had been expanded to include some 560 artifacts. In 1906, Henry Huttleston Rogers donated the Bank of Commerce Building on Water Street to the ODHS for the purpose of establishing a museum. One year later, the New Bedford Whaling Museum was opened. The New Bedford Whaling Museum grew considerably during

392-516: The New Bedford Whaling Museum. The merger was finalized in October 2001, and the Kendall Whaling Museum's artifacts were moved to the New Bedford Whaling Museum by November 2002. As a result, the museum added some 70,000 artifacts to its collections, effectively doubling its size. To accommodate all these artifacts, the museum acquired a former bank building on Purchase Street three blocks west of

420-578: The Society have been unwavering partners since the Society's founding in 1997 and have worked together to promote Portuguese maritime history and culture in the community. Throughout the year, AMHS participates in many local events, including the world's largest Portuguese Feast, Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, the Working Waterfront Festival, and regattas with local rowing clubs. They also hold an annual wine tasting, Sails of Portugal, and

448-713: The colonial growth of southeastern Massachusetts and the ultimate success of the port of New Bedford, which surpassed Nantucket as the US's largest whaling center around 1827. William W. Crapo William Wallace Crapo (May 16, 1830 – February 28, 1926) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts . He was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffinton. He served slightly more than three terms in congress from November 2, 1875 to March 3, 1883 Born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts , died in New Bedford , Massachusetts. Crapo

476-567: The history, science, art, and culture of the international whaling industry, and the colonial region of Old Dartmouth (now the city of New Bedford and towns of Acushnet , Dartmouth , Fairhaven , and Westport ) in the South Coast of Massachusetts . The museum is governed by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS), which was established in 1903 "to create and foster an interest in the history of Old Dartmouth." Since then,

504-532: The most complete data on the bowhead whale to date, reestablishing the importance of the preservation of historical whaling documents. In 1996, the museum played a large role in establishing a New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park , a national park that includes several New Bedford historical sites, including the Seamen's Bethel , which is located across the street from the Whaling Museum. The museum features

532-500: The museum acquired its first whale skeleton, a three-year-old humpback whale known as Quasimodo. In the words of curator William Tripp, "We are no longer a whaling museum without a whale, as some in the past have chosen to call us." In 1953, the whaling film, All the Brothers Were Valiant , premiered in New Bedford. The anti-whaling movement of the 1970s led Curator of Ethnology John R. Bockstoce to research and compile

560-554: The museum campus on Johnny Cake Hill. The Purchase Street Building housed the museum's Research Library for several years; in 2017 it moved to a new building on the main museum campus. In 2002, the New Bedford Whaling Museum partnered with the Melville Society , and it now houses their extensive Melville collection in the Research Library. In 2002, the museum acquired the skeleton of a sperm whale , and in 2008, it acquired

588-577: The museum has expanded its scope to include programming that addresses global issues "including the consequences of natural resource exhaustion, the diversification of industry, and tolerance in a multicultural society." Its collections include over 750,000 items, including 3,000 pieces of scrimshaw and 2,500 logbooks from whaling ships, both of which are the largest collections in the world, as well as five complete whale skeletons. The museum's complex consists of several contiguous buildings housing 20 exhibit galleries and occupying an entire city block within

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616-458: The need of a historical society arose not recently but generations ago when the history of New Bedford and vicinity commenced. Today we are suffering from the omission and if it is in the least deplorable it will be doubly a breach of our duty toward posterity to allow the lack to exist any longer ... True, there are a few old log books stored away in the public library or here and there in the closet of some private collector, but when one contemplates

644-534: The provisional chapter there, re-activating the ten-years-dormant Brunonian Chapter . In 1903, Crapo (pronounced cray-poe) was a founding member and first president of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, governing body of the New Bedford Whaling Museum . Crapo was the son of Governor of Michigan Henry H. Crapo (1804–1869), who also served as the mayor of Flint, Michigan and in the Michigan State Senate. His mother, Mary Ann (Slocum) Crapo (1805–1875),

672-519: The rise of New Bedford as a whaling port in the 19th century. The museum's Bourne Building houses the Lagoda , a half-scale model of a whaling ship that was commissioned in 1916 and is the world's largest model whaling ship. On January 7, 1903, Ellis L. Howland, a news reporter for the Evening Standard , presented a paper urging the establishment of a historical society and a museum: I believe that

700-402: The skeleton of a North Atlantic right whale which was pregnant at the time of its death. In 2012, the Whaling Museum was featured in an episode of Four Weddings on TLC as one of the brides had her wedding reception at the museum. The museum's Jonathan Bourne Building houses the Lagoda , a half-scale model built in 1916 of the ship Lagoda owned by Jonathan Bourne Jr . The Lagoda

728-410: The tons and tons of them that have been ground up into wrapping paper of prosaic fiber wash tubs, the absence of a historical society becomes in our minds almost a crime. On 22 July 1903, the 100 founding constituents of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society selected William W. Crapo , a local lawyer and congressman, as their president. At first, the museum rented rooms to display and store artifacts in

756-638: Was a descendant of William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge) and his wife Anne Hutchinson , daughter of Francis Marbury . His second cousin, three times removed is Mike Crapo , who served as a United States representative from Idaho 1993-1999 and has served as a United States senator from Idaho since 1999. His nephew was William C. Durant , co-founder of General Motors . Crapo married Sarah Ann Davis Tappan (October 6, 1831 in Newburyport, MA-December 13, 1893 in New Bedford, MA) on January 20, 1857 in New Bedford. They had four children: This article about

784-573: Was raised by the 1922 film Down to the Sea in Ships , which was filmed in New Bedford and featured many New Bedford locals dressed up in their grandparents' clothing as extras. By the 1930s, the New Bedford Whaling Museum was attracting four to ten thousand visitors a year, most of whom were from out of town. The museum further expanded with the bequest of the Wood Building by Annie Seabury Wood in 1935. In 1936,

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