Whaling exhibition organised by New Bedford Whaling Museum open to the public at Pico Museum
Under the cooperation established between the Presidency of the Regional Government/Regional Directorate for Culture and the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts, a photography and documentary exhibition on American and Portuguese whaling will be open to the public at the Lajes do Pico Whaling Museum on May 14, Saturday, at 2 PM.
The event was organised by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, an institution dedicated to the study of the interaction between humans and whales in its various aspects, and will be accompanied by a delegation from this Museum, who will travel to the Azores for this purpose.
In this context, the exhibition aims to disseminate the history of whaling in America and in the Azores by highlighting and correlating its most significant economic, social and cultural aspects, such as subsistence and commercial whaling activities, the American innovations introduced in the Azorean whaling, the role played by the Dabney Family or the Azorean legacy in New Bedford.
Spread by fifteen panels, the information texts at this exhibition will be provided in English and, in this context, a Portuguese translation will be also available to visitors.
After the Whaling Museum, the exhibition will be open to the public at the Whaling Industry Museum in São Roque do Pico until the end of the summer.