Annual Report, NBWM 2023

2023 ANNUAL REPORT

REPORT CREDITS EDITORS Sarah Budlong Traci Calabrese Emily Mead ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Mary-Lynne Bohn, Accent Design PHOTOGRAPHY Drew Furtado

Dear Friends, It was the year of YOU!

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO AND BOARD CHAIR

You came to the New Bedford Whaling Museum for learning, programs and fun. You were able to enjoy our new 3D film series, ten new special exhibitions and our extraordinary permanent galleries. You soaked up special high notes such as our Seaweed exhibition and the return of the New Bedford Lyceum—a dynamic 200 year old platform for engaged community dialogue. You went on a digital whaling voyage and you listened in to our new audio guide which dazzled with voices from our community. You came to New Bedford to enjoy the Whaling Museum from 36 countries and all 50 states. And, more than 80,000 of you visited the Museum in 2023!

Because of you we supported our amazing graduating class of High School Apprentices who went off to Bridgewater State University, Georgetown University, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. You made it possible for the Museum to advance our efforts to reach more in our community. Thanks to your support, we took steps towards removing barriers to participate – particularly for New Bedford residents and students. In 2023, 33% of our audience benefited from one of the Museum’s 20 discount admission programs (14% increase over 2022!) and 32% of guests were New Bedford residents—up from 18% just two years ago.

AMANDA McMULLEN President & CEO ANTHONY R. SAPIENZA Chair, Board of Trustees

In the following pages you will feel the energy of what you made possible. Our efforts to Welcome, Engage, Steward & Thrive have never felt more alive than they do right now. Thanks to you, the Museum is making an impact. As we surge forward to reach new heights, we remain grateful to our members, donors, volunteers, professionals and trustees who make everything we do possible. You are the reason we are here.

With thanks,

Amanda McMullen President & CEO

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Anthony R. Sapienza Chair, Board of Trustees

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Seaweed!

Our blockbuster exhibition, A Singularly Marine and Fabulous Produce: the Cultures of Seaweed saw significant press coverage in Forbes, The Boston Globe, WBUR, and the Wall Street Journal.

The Boston Globe raved, “In the ‘weeds (in a good way).” Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast called the exhibition one of the best exhibitions in 2023.

The New England Museum Association awarded Naomi Slipp an Excellence Award for her leadership on this exhibition!

YEAR IN REVIEW In 2023......

81,000

2,300

6,800

700

VISITORS

MEMBER HOUSEHOLDS

FIELD TRIP STUDENTS

SQUID DISSECTIONS

790

13,000

10,960

500

BIG BLUE MOVIE VISITORS

WHALING LOGBOOKS AND JOURNALS DIGITIZED

SCHOLAR VISITS

VOLUNTEER HOURS

Community Programs, Events, and Rentals The Museum serves as a cultural hub drawing new and wider audiences to enjoy events, lectures and programs, including First Fridays, exhibition related programming, Portuguese & LusophoneWorld Series, Moby-Dick Marathon, Sailors’ Series, and school vacation week activities. The community activated Museum space for private events—such as weddings, memorial services, and private parties—with a total of 66 facility rentals in 2023.

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Guiding Us Through Powered by Bloomberg Connects, the Museum launched our new Museum guide app.

Available in over 30 languages, this app is your gateway to the Museum’s highlights and incredible stories, all at your fingertips. You can seamlessly embark on a highlights tour, hear expert insights, and view Museum artifacts.

Supporting Success 100% of Senior High School Apprentices matriculated to a fouryear educational institution, entered military service, or secured gainful employment.

Going Social We set an institution record! We reached more than 4.23 million people through social media! Social engagement grew in 2023, to 8617 Instagram and 19,587 Facebook Followers, 1,481 YouTube subscribers, and 359 Tik Tok Followers.

Our most viral post reached close to one million people and promoted November’s Local History Guild with Wampanoag artist Julia Marden.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2023-2024 Anthony (Tony) R. Sapienza, Chair Douglas Crocker II, 1st Vice Chair Bernadette Souza, 2nd Vice Chair Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Treasurer Ricardo Bermudez, Assistant Treasurer Paulina Arruda, Clerk John N. Garfield, Assistant Clerk Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D., Past Chair Anthony (Tony) R. Sapienza, Chair Paulina Arruda Christina Bascom Ricardo Bermudez Susan Costa Douglas Crocker II Betsy Fallon John N. Garfield, Jr. David Gomes Edward M. Howland II Meg Howland James S. Hughes Hon. D. Lloyd Macdonald Ralph Martin Eugene Monteiro Michael Moore, Ph.D. Gilbert Perry Victoria Pope Dana Rebeiro Maria Rosario Lucy Rose-Correia Brian J. Rothschild, Ph.D. Nancy Shanik Hardwick (Wick) Simmons Bernadette Souza Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D. R. Davis Webb, Ph.D. Alison Wells Lisa Whitney Susan M. Wolkoff David W. Wright 4

STAFF Kayleigh Almeida Robert Amaral Annie Atherton D. Jordan Berson Ian Borim Traci Calabrese Brett Carlsen Alexander Corralejo Kelly Corralejo Melanie Correia Kindra Davern Noah Durette Rachel Dwyer Michael Dyer Elizabeth Fallon Paul Foster Gillian Fournier Drew Furtado Joshua Goncalves Victoria Hughes Andrew Iarocci Michael Lapides Ymelda Rivera Laxton Phoebe Magee Monica Maranhas Jacob Mark Amanda McMullen Kylie McWilliams Emily Mead Henry Moniz Allison Myron Dania Noriega Michael Novak Beatriz Oliveira John Pimentel Mark Procknik Yamilex Ramos Peguero Sophia Ponte Timothy Raymond Emily Reinl Emma Rocha Robert Rocha Fallon Rosario Monique Roy Traecy Saint-Louis Samantha Santos Catherine Saunders David Soares Benjamin Shiek Nathan Silveira Naomi Slipp Emma Sylvia Cecelia Tavares Michelle Taylor Nelson Terra Waverly Verissimo Karissa Walker Marina Dawn Wells Jennifer Zanolli

VOLUNTEER COUNCIL Robert Saltzman, President Diane Sullivan, Vice President Kamile Khazan, Recording Secretary Judith Giusti, Corresponding Secretary Sylvia White, Comptroller James Anderson Marion Aymie Melody Barlow Susan Barnet Janice Bastoni Mary Biltcliffe David Brownell Gerald Bruen Erin Burlinson Paula Cabral Lorraine Carey Russell Carey Charles Chace Mitchell Cleveland Carole Clifford Penny Cole Mary Crothers Sylvia Daley Melissa Desjardins Christina Dodd Mary Farry Deborah Fauteux David Ferkinhoff Marilyn Ferkinhoff Patricia Fernandes Debby Flynn Thomas Flynn Michele Fortin Jennifer Gady Nancy Gentile Keighley James Grinnell Susan Grosart Maria Harrington Patricia A. Harrington Robert Hussey Ellen Johnston Donna Junier

Estelle Keches Priscilla Keffer Dyan Kieltyka Anne Kirschmann Barbara Kratovil Janice Linehan Lee Loranger Charles Loveridge Rosemary Lucas Larry Lutvak Kathy Mann Andrea Marcovici Kathleen McAuliffe Jerome McGourthy Richard McLaren Louisa Medeiros Joanne Mendes Robert Mogilnicki Morgan Mowbray Catherine O’Gorman Cody Oliveira Helen Pereira Gilbert Perry Barbara Poznysz Jane Pucello Joseph Quigley Jennifer Rodriguez Richard Schenker Joanne Seymour James Soden Lois Spirlet Harrison Stewart- Racicot Cynthia Stone Ellen Stone June Strunk David Sylvain William Tatro Michael Taylor Kenneth Teixeira Katherine Veiga James Verni Raymond Vezina Paul Vien Joyce Viera Lorna Walker Gordon Waring Sylvia White

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza, Chair Paulina Arruda, Clerk Christina Bascom Ricardo Bermudez, Assistant Treasurer Douglas Crocker II, 1st Vice Chair John N. Garfield, Jr., Assistant Clerk Edward M. Howland II James S. Hughes Ralph Martin Victoria Pope Bernadette Souza, 2nd Vice Chair Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Treasurer Carol M. Taylor, Ph. D., Past Chair R. Davis Webb Lisa Whitney MUSEUM ADVISORY COUNCIL Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D., Chair Lisa Schmid Alvord Nathaniel J. Bickford Mary Jean Blasdale Joanne Cameron Paula Cordeiro Carl J. Cruz William do Carmo Roy Enoksen Armand Fernandes Barbara Ferri Vanessa Gralton Lucille Hicks Maryellen Sullivan Hughes Patricia A. Jayson William N. Keene David N. Kelley II Elizabeth T. Kellogg Frances F. Levin Joaquim Livramento Joseph E. McDonough George B. Mock III Faith Morningstar Barbara Moss Barbara Mulville Celeste Penney Alice Rice Perkins John C. Pinheiro Carlos Ribeiro Donald S. Rice Cathy Roberts Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Christine Schmid Gilbert L. Shapiro Janet P. Whitla David Wyss AUDIT & RISK COMMITTEE Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D., Chair Ricardo Bermudez John N. Garfield, Jr. David Gomes Hon. D. Lloyd Macdonald Victoria Pope Lucy Rose-Correia Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Nancy Shanik Hardwick (Wick) Simmons

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BUILDINGS & GROUNDS COMMITTEE John N. Garfield, Jr., Chair Edward M. Howland II James S. Hughes Ralph Martin Victoria Pope Quentin Ricciardi Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Mark Schmid Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D. Susan M. Wolkoff

DEVELOPMENT & STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE Betsy Fallon, Co-Chair Lisa Whitney, Co-Chair Annette Ewing Emily Field Claire Healy Foley Karen Gierhart Lisa Lofberg Katherine Read Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Margot D. Stone

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Douglas Crocker II, Co-Chair Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Co-Chair Paulina Arruda Christina Bascom Jewelle & Nathaniel Bickford Betsy Fallon James S. Hughes Betts Howes Murray & F. Wisner Murray Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Tricia & Chris Schade Bernadette Souza Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D. R. Davis Webb, Ph.D. Wistar Wood

FINANCE COMMITTEE Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Chair Ricardo Bermudez Jose S. Castelo Douglas Crocker II Thomas Cutter Hardy Hon. D. Lloyd Macdonald Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Nancy Shanik R. Davis Webb David W. Wright

CABO VERDE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Carl J. Cruz, Co-Chair Eugene Monteiro, Co-Chair Carlos A. Almeida Patricia L. Andrade, M.D. Candida Rose Baptista Angelo Barbosa Ronald Barboza Jose Cabral Susan Costa William do Carmo David Gomes Marilyn Gonsalves Scott J. Lima Louis M. Ricciardi Daniel M. Rodrigues Lucy Rose-Correia Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza COLLECTIONS COMMITTEE Douglas Crocker II, Chair Constance Bacon Mary Jean Blasdale Mary Chandor Carl J. Cruz Vanessa Gralton Thomas Cutter Hardy Meg Howland Frances F. Levin Steven D. Lubar Michael Moore, Ph.D. Barbara Moss John H. Ricketson Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Tina Schmid Gilbert L. Shapiro Ellen Stone Alison Wells Lisa Whitney David W. Wright

GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE Paulina Arruda Carl J. Cruz Hon. D. Lloyd Macdonald Ralph Martin Eugene Monteiro Bruce Rose Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Carol M. Taylor, Ph. D. Susan M. Wolkoff INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Ricardo Bermudez, Chair Ted Melhado Gilbert Perry Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Nancy Shanik Hardwick (Wick) Simmons David Wyss MUSEUM LEARNING COMMITTEE Bernadette Souza, Chair Christina Bascom Susan Costa Ralph Martin Helen Montague Faith Morningstar Dana Rebeiro Maria Rosario Lucy Rose-Correia Brian J. Rothschild, Ph.D. Robert R. Saltzman Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Patricia (Tricia) Schade Diane Sullivan Alison Wells

PORTUGUESE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Onésimo Almeida, Ph.D., Co-Chair Gilbert Perry, Co-Chair Michael Benevides Rep. Antonio Cabral Jose S. Castelo Anthony A. Cruz Paul Curado James G. DeMello Maria Gloria Desa Steven Duarte Armand Fernandes Mónica Bensaude Fernandes Rogerio Lopes Louise D. Medeiros Willitts Mendonca Paula Celeste Gomes Noversa, Ph. D. John C. Pinheiro Victor C. Pinheiro Donald G. Rei Jose Ribeiro Fernando G. Rosa Brian J. Rothschild, Ph.D. Sara da Silva Quintal Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza SCHOLARSHIP & PUBLICATIONS Michael Moore, Ph.D., Chair Mary K. Bercaw Mary Jean Blasdale John R. Bockstoce Jan da Silva Timothy Evans Kenneth Hartnett Judith N. Lund Daniela Melo David R. Nelson Victoria Pope Brian J. Rothschild, Ph.D. Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Robert J. Saunders WOMEN’S HISTORY COMMITTEE Paulina Arruda, Co-Chair Christina Bascom, Co-Chair Lee Blake Carole Clifford Jan da Silva Betsy Fallon Ann O’Leary Dana Rebeiro Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza Patricia (Tricia) Schade Mary Howland Smoyer Ellen Stone Lisa Whitney

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DEEPENING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS The New Bedford Whaling Museum continues to deepen its commitment to actively foster wider community engagement through collaborative partnerships that are reflective of our richly diverse cultural landscape.

The Museum partners with community organizations, state and local government agencies, religious institutions, and cultural groups that enhance the quality of life in our region, particularly in the following areas which reflect the Museum’s mission: • Portuguese and Cape Verdean arts and culture programs • Entrepreneurship and leadership development • Downtown New Bedford activation and revitalization • Natural resources and conservation • LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and human rights

COMMUNITY PARTNERS 3rd EyE Unlimited AHA! New Bedford Alma del Mar Charter School Arizona State University ArtWeek SouthCoast Atlantic Sea Farms Berklee College of Music Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Boston University Break the Anchor | CineMAR Brown University’s Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Buy Black NB Cape Cod Maritime Museum Cape Verdean Recognition Committee City of New Bedford Consulate of Portugal in New Bedford Culture*Park Dartmouth Historical and Art Society Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust Dennison Memorial Community Center Descendants of Whaling Masters Downtown New Bedford, Inc. FABRIC Art Festival Governor Healey’s Advisory Council on Black Empowerment Grace Church Human Rights Commission Inter-Church Council of New Bedford Leadership Southcoast Maria’s Portuguese Table Marine Biological Laboratory Martha’s Vineyard Museum Massachusetts Coastal Program, The Nature Conservancy Massachusetts Cultural Council Melville Society Nantucket Historical Association National Museum of Natural History New Bedford Art Museum New Bedford Creative New Bedford Economic Development Council

New Bedford Film Society New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center New Bedford Food Tours New Bedford Historical Society New Bedford Police Department New Bedford Public Library New Bedford Public Schools New Bedford Symphony Orchestra New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park New Bedford YMCA New York Yacht Club Operation Gratitude Our Sisters’ School Queer Arts Council of New Bedford Rotch-Jones Duff House & Gardens Sippican Lands Trust Sound Explorations SouthCoast Community Foundation South Coast LGBTQ+ Network SouthCoast Film Forum St. Olaf College Tomaquag Museum United States Naval War College United States Navy University of British Columbia University of California Davis University of Copenhagen University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Biology Department University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies & Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Wampanoag Tribal Historic Preservation Office Westport Land Conservation Trust Women’s Fund SouthCoast Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution World Wildlife Fund - US

Throughout 2023, the Museum, along with our community partners, offered more than 80 programs to over 10,000 people; almost half of these programs were free and open to the public.

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PUBLIC PROGRAMS & EVENTS Public programs offer new, vibrant, and accessible ways for our guests to connect with the Museum’s mission and content. From interactive workshops to thought-provoking lectures, our diverse range of programs in 2023 ensured that there was a rewarding experience awaiting each and every attendee.

120th Annual Members’ Meeting 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party: The Dartmouth & The Destruction of the Tea AHA! Night • “Love Letters for New Bedford” film screening • City Views • Community Blooms • IGNITE! Youth Art Showcase • Made in NB • NB Cultures | All Hands • Pride • Summer in the Seaport • Under the Sea | Seaweed & Sea Creatures • We HeArt NB April Vacation Week Arctic Tale: Movie Time & Craft A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed • Capturing Seaweed and More with Sunprints • Seaweed Exploration • Seaweed Pressing Workshop • Seaweed Roundtable: Arts and Culture • Seaweed Roundtable: Science and Food August Adventures Break The Anchor | CineMAR Short Films of the Sea Common Ground • Stories of Activism & Reception • Stories of Arts & Culture & Reception • Stories of Immigration & Reception Conservation of Charles Sidney Raleigh’s Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Fall Fest | Trunk or Treat February Vacation Week

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First Fridays • Australian Violinist Mark Russell • Celtic & Americana Music • Cinco de Mayo Celebration & Craft Workshop • DJ Andrew “Anj” Kepinski • Fado & Morna Music Performance • West African Music & Participatory Djembe Drumming • Whispers in Seaweed & Now & Soon & Somehow Forever (Spoken Word) Holiday Stroll Buy Black NB Market Local History Guild • All Hands: Yankee Whaling and the U.S. Navy • Conversation on 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party • Conversation with Aquinnah Wampanoag Artist Julia Marden • Hometown with John Bullard • Liverpool Whaling Trade • New England’s Horse Trade to the West Indies in the Eighteenth Century • Seaweed Harvesting in the Old Dartmouth Region • “Unimaginable Sublimity”: Moby-Dick Art & Inspiration • When Steam Ferries Connected New Bedford to the Cape & Islands, Part 1 • When Steam Ferries Connected New Bedford to the Cape & Islands, Part 2 Lightbox Collaborative Workshop Loving Vincent Film Screening & Artist Talk Manhattan Short Film Festival Master & Commander Film Screening

Navy Day New Bedford Lyceum Lecture, featuring Author George M. Johnson New Year’s Eve City Celebration Toe Jam Puppet Band Now and Soon and Somehow Forever Artist Talk Our Sisters School Exhibition Opening & Reception Portuguese & Lusophone-World Series • Manuel F. Costa Jr. Lecture and Musical Performance • Maria Lawton • The Portuguese and Cod Fishing in the Northwest Atlantic Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes • Cranberry Bog Walking Tour • Dunham’s Brook Conservation Walking Tour • Osprey Marsh Walking Tour • Reading American Landscapes: Women & the American Scene • Wampanoag Lifeways with David Weeden Rescue and Record: Whale Stranding as Art and Action Sailors’ Series • All Hands On Deck, A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure To The Far Side Of The World!

• Crew of Three • “One Might Fancy Oneself at Sea”: New York Yacht Club and its Collections Seals & Society Lecture & Reception The Wider World & Scrimshaw Symposium Titanic Film & Food event

Mátria with Catarina Gonçalves | Drama Short & WE SEA Concert

Traces of the Trade Film & Discussion

Members’ Holiday Party

Under the Sea Summer Benefit

Moby-Dick Marathon Weekend

Wonders of the Blue Whale

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EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS Re/Framing the View: NineteenthCentury American Landscapes October 28, 2022 – May 14, 2023 Wattles Family Gallery The exhibition celebrated the work of landscape artists, while offering a layered understanding of the cultural and historical meaning of such artwork.

Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) and the Arctic Imaginary December 17, 2022 – May 7, 2023 Center Street Gallery This exhibition showcased a crosssection of the Museum’s deep collection of objects depicting or made from polar bears.

Moby Dick in Days of Pestilence and Chaos December 22, 2022 – February 26, 2023 Observation Deck Gallery In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, artist Aileen Callahan (b. 1941) explored themes of contagion and plague, and the known, the unseen, and the feared, as described by Herman Melville (18191891) in Moby-Dick (1851).

Common Ground: Community Stories January 26, 2023 – August 6, 2023 Braitmayer Galleries Common Ground presented a diverse, inclusive, and celebratory accounting of the lived experiences of South Coast residents through story collection.

5th Annual IGNITE: Youth Showcase of Art Inspired by Historic Women of the SouthCoast March 7, 2023 – March 26, 2023 Observation Deck Gallery Young artists in grades 4 through 12 participated with art inspired by historic women of the South Coast.

Our Sisters’ History: An Exploration of New Bedford During the 1800s April 1, 2023 – April 20, 2023 Observation Deck Gallery This exhibition by sixth-graders from Our Sisters’ School was a culmination of student research using primary sources to deepen the arts, literacy, and social studies curricula of the integrated 10

humanities and arts unit ”New Bedford in the 1800s.”

Framing our Heritage April 26, 2023 – May 12, 2023 Observation Deck Gallery Curated by the Museum’s High School Apprentices, who connected artifacts from the Museum collection with hand-made objects, family treasures, photographs, music, and original art by Apprentices.

Whale Stranding: Daniel Ranalli May 19, 2023 – February 26, 2024 Observation Deck Gallery This print series was set in conversation with NBWM collection items related to historic whale strandings, and whaling logbooks and stamps.

Marine Heatwaves May 23, 2023 – January 18, 2024 Jacobs Family Gallery An installation created by visual artist Deb Ehrens (b. 1963) in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution oceanographers Caroline Ummenhofer and Svenja Ryan.

The project layered historical and contemporary imagery with information related to marine heatwaves, and their environmental impact.

Seals and Society June 15, 2023 – July 30, 2023 Turner Gallery Colalborating with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, this multi-panel exhibition explores the daily lives of pinnipeds, with a focus on locally abundant harbor and gray seals.

Now and Soon and Somehow Forever June 16, 2023 – November 26, 2023 Center Street Gallery Co-created by artists William Pettit (b. 1972) and Candice Smith Corby (b. 1972), the exhibition represented a transatlantic creative process connecting the desires and longing of nineteenth-century maritime travel with the physical separations created by the COVID pandemic.

“A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce”: the Cultures of Seaweed June 16, 2023 – December 3, 2023 Wattles Family Gallery This major exhibition of over 125 works probed humankind’s fascination with seaweed from 1780 to today. Art, science, and industry combined in this innovative exhibition that thinks about the past cultures of seaweed, and its applications today and into the future.

Art on the Plaza June 6, 2023 – present Plaza Marnie Sinclair (b. 1945) created the outdoor sculptures Kin and Seamore the Seal from recycle materials, wire and hardware cloth.

All Hands: Yankee Whaling and the U.S. Navy September 1, 2023 – September 8, 2024 Braitmayer Galleries All Hands! explores the deep historical connections between American whalers and the U.S. Navy from the 1700s to 1920.

The Stars that Guide Us: Roy Rossow December 15, 2023 – April 21, 2024 Center Street Gallery Featuring paintings of New Bedford’s working waterfront, the work addresses contemporary maritime trade and historic celestial navigation, connecting mariners of today with whalers of the past.

PUBLICATIONS All Hands: Yankee Whaling and the U.S. Navy Vistas: A Journal of Art, History, Science and Culture Volume 2, Issue 1 Vistas: A Journal of Art, History, Science and Culture Volume 2, Issue 2 Daniel Ranalli: Whale Stranding A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed

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GIFTS, PURCHASES AND TRANSFERS 2023.1, Gift of Rick Donaghy Ships Bell: ca. 1500s (Dutch), recovered

by M/V Michigan of New Bedford in 1980 on George’s Bank.

2023.2, Transfer from the University of California, Riverside Twenty-seven photographs and ephemera relating to Trevor Housby’s book The Hand of God: Whaling in the Azores, ca. 1970.

2023.3, ODHS Purchase George F. Parlow, New Bedford, MA, Portrait of unidentified Black woman, ca.

1860s. Carte-de-visite.

2023.4, Gift of John Sweeney John O’Neil studio, New Bedford, MA, Group portrait, c. 1890.

2023.5, Gift of David Anderson Trade card: “William H. Cook, dealer in all kinds of paper stock, old iron, brass, copper, lead, pewter, whale’s teeth, walrus’ tusks, &c.”

his publications and lectures, family photos, and folder containing draft lectures.

2023.11, Gift of Timothy Rockwell Approximately seventy-five manuscripts ca. 1840s-60s, including letters to Charles W. Morgan, customs documents, import / export papers, ships’ documents, correspondence of whalers.

2023.12, Gift of David Nelson One booking card for Lizzie Borden, Bristol County House of Correction, #3517, 6/3/1893; One receipt book for Lizzie Borden, Bristol County House of Correction, 1886-1897.

2023.13, ODHS Purchase Gabriella F. Eddy (American; 18431932), Cherry Blossoms, c. 1876.

Watercolor.

2023.14, Gift of Carl Cruz Photo postcard showing costume exhibition at ODHS, 1940.

2023.6, Gift of Marion Antiques Collection of local dairy bottles and milk bottle carriers.

2023.15, ODHS Purchase Ron Fortier, Triptych: New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster – 1871 (study #1-3/4), 2021. Acrylic on canvas.

2023.7, ODHS Purchase Helena de Kay Gilder (American; 18461916), sketchbook, ca. 1886; three signed charcoal on paper drawings; Portrait of Annie KcKim, watercolor and pencil on paper; and Flower Study (early work), watercolor and pencil on paper.

2023.16, Gift of Janelle Cooper and Kathleen Hanson Photographic negative of the whaler John and Winthrop. This vessel completed two dozen whaling voyages between 1876 and 1912, first from New Bedford and then from San Francisco.

2023.8, Gift of Bristol County Sheriff’s Office Collection of negatives and prints (mug shots) and historic prison records from the Ash Street Jail, New Bedford; 1800s jail cell bedframe; Additional miscellaneous items from the jail.

2023.17, Gift of Diane and Guerdon Churchill Clara Kingman Whelden and Captain Alexander Whelden letters, lap desk and objects collected on their whaling voyages; Ship model made by Capt.

Joseph Whelden “with worm-eaten planks from the schooner Favorite docked at San Francisco in 1848.”

2023.9, Gift of Rhoderick W. Sharp Audio archive: USB drive with full set of audio recordings and interviews made for the creation of Song of the Right Whale for BBC 5.

2023.10, Gift of Dr. Walter Powell Scrapbook relating to Chester Howland, WW1 photos, newspaper clippings about 11 2023 ANNUAL REPORT

2023.18, Gift of Walter Powell Scrapbook of Dorothy Howland with Chester S. Howland lecture notes, WWI correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera.

2023.19, Gift of Emma Sylvia Braley’s Creamery Inc., Dartmouth / New Bedford, MA pint dairy bottle; Dartmouth Dairy pasteurized milk bottle cap, Almeida Farm.

2023.20, Gift of Elizabeth Hazard Three Gareth Andrews bronze sculptures of Anthem, Inua, and Sons of Death.

2023.21, Gift of Paulina Arruda Eight postcards, Baleias E Baleeiros, published by Edição Fátima Madruga. Art

by Vitor Boga.

2023.22, ODHS Purchase Four chalk plate illustrations by Edmund D. Ashley (1871-1936).

2023.23, ODHS Purchase Jacques-Henri Bernardin De St. Pierre, Paul and Virginia, Translated from the French of St. Pierre, to which is added The Indian Cottage: A Tale (London, 1810).

2023.24, ODHS Purchase Rosebee (Cecelia Surdut; American; 1932-2016), The Old Farm, oil painting on artist board; Maker once known, Fort Phoenix, New Bedford, undated.

Oil on canvas; Theodosia Potter Chase (American; 1875-1972), Hawthorne Street New Bedford, 1860, 1948. Oil on artist board.

2023.25, Gift of Charlotte and Charles Gibbs Charles Gibbs, Ahab crank toy, 2019.

Kinetic sculpture.

2023.26, Gift of Cynthia and Douglas Crocker Alfred Thompson Bricher (American; 1837-1908), Low Tide, c. 1885-1895. Oil on canvas.

2023.27, Gift of R.D. Madison in honor of Maggi Kerr Peirce Collection of library print materials, including the United States Hydrographic Office, Maury’s Wind & Current Chart, 3rd edition 1852. No. 3. Series A. Engraved by Sherman & Smith, NY.

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2023.28, Gift of Helen Richmond Webb Nine photo postcards of Washington Shore Whaling including Gray’s Harbor; Photograph of the gas schooner Charles Hanson; photographs of modern whaling, one dated 1961; Twenty-six study prints of NW Coast Whaling and sealing.

2023.29, Gift of Marion Antiques Photo album with twenty-seven mounted photographs of New Bedford area waterfront.

2023.30, Gift of Anthony R. Sapienza Dark blue plaid Joseph Abboud menswear suit, “Black Label” line.

2023.31, Gift of Dorothy B. Jenkins and Peter D. Blatchford Scrimshaw powder horn, four scrimshaw handled drivers, foot shaped ivory bodkin, baleen busk, pair of scrimshaw teeth with depictions of small girls, single scrimshaw tooth of Columbia; Antonio Jacobsen (American; 1850-1921), River Queen (steamship), 1892. Oil on canvas; New Bedford and Fairhaven Signal Book; James T. Church (1801-1870) daybooks for a New Bedford sailmaker; Whaling journal kept onboard the ship Horatio of New Bedford (1877-1881); Four small passbooks, records for the bark Smyrna;

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One pamphlet New Bedford Traders in Rhyme (New Bedford, 1860).

2023.32, Gift of Jim Eychaner Hexagonal lidded box with sailor’s knot motif.

2023.33, Gift of Mrs. Desmond Fitzgerald Hooked rug depicting a farm scene, ca.

1860s.

2023.34, ODHS Purchase Old Mystic Connecticut postcard; skeleton of a whale captured in Hudson Bay, ca. 1915.

2023.35, Gift of Brian Belli Fossilized sperm whale tooth found while dragging scallops aboard M/V Victor of New Bedford on Georges Bank.

2023.36, Gift of Marnie Sinclair in honor of Nature’s Babies Marnie Sinclair, “Kin,” 2023. Single-use plastic, wire, paint, and hardware cloth.

2023.37, Gift of Edmund F. Tavares One box of ship model maker’s tools owned and used by Chester W. Eldred of Fairhaven, MA; One unfinished clipper ship hull model.

2023.38, Gift of Marilyn L. Eckstine Four banker’s boxes of raw whale’s teeth; One Fijian Tabua; Five packets of antique scrimshaw and two canes.

2023.39, Gift of D. Jordan Berson Live oak wood fragments, from original construction of U.S.S. Constitution, ca.

1780. Removed from vessel during repair work in the early 2000s.

2023.40, Gift of Mr. Gerald Crown Eulalie Bouasse-Lebel (1809-1898)/ Maison Bouasse-Belel, Histoire Naturelle Cryptogames | Algues from Encyclopedie Bouasse-Lebel, c. 1875. Lithograph, 20 x 26 inches.

2023.41, ODHS Purchase Photographer with his camera, New Bedford, MA, c. 1880s. Cabinet card.

Stamp on back reads “Joseph Gunther/ New Bedford, Mass.”

2023.42, Gift of Mary Lou Gallop Slop book, Bark William Baylies, 1889; Crew account book with agent owner accounts, bark Andrew Hicks, 1888.

2023.43, ODHS Purchase Anneli Skaar, The Island Whale, 2022.

Limited edition #20/25, published by Two Ponds Press.

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2023.44, Gift of Shelley M. Perry One Boston Almanac, 1840.

2023.45, Gift of J. Terry Fernandez Bedford Commercial Insurance Company policy issued to Joseph Grinnell dated 12/21/1838; Charles W. Morgan, Marine Bank accounts payable receipt dated 7/1/1835; Bill of sale re: Ship Euphrates to Cornelius Grinnell Jr.; Ichabod Hillman letter dated 5/2/1803.

2023.46, ODHS Purchase Thomas Hathaway China trade insurance document.

2023.47, ODHS Purchase Captain John Alden account book, 1782-1800, Fairhaven, Mass.

2023.48, Gift of Gloria Strain Boxed cup plates from the Whaling History series by Normand J. Bergeron, New Bedford.

2023.49, ODHS Purchase Clement Nye Swift (American, 18461918), Completing the Cargo, 1880. Oil on canvas, 58 x 86 inches.

2023.50, ODHS Purchase Two Maury wind and current charts; Whaleman’s shipping paper for the bark Martha out of New Bedford (1872); Payroll ledger for the Old Colony Steamboat Co., October 1886; Records and account book for schooner Racine, 1870-1884.

2023.51, Anonymous donor Broadside size reprint of August 3, 1930 advertisement in the New Bedford Sunday Standard for Wilson Chapel funeral parlor, 479 County St., New Bedford, highlighting their 80th anniversary.

2023.52, ODHS Purchase Leander Plummer II (American, 18571914), Eight carved oak chairs, ca. 18901892 (Photograph on Page 12).

2023.53, Gift of Mr. Paul L. Zellar Harpoon, sheath, broken lance tip, sailmaker’s palm, and caulking iron from sea chest of Edward Doud Aiken (18861972) of Grand Haven, MI, son of George W. Aiken (Bark Sappho, 1886).

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2023.54, ODHS Purchase One banner for the New Bedford Grand Army of the Republic headquarters, c. 1890; One banner for the New Bedford Centennial of 1947.

2023.55, Gift of Melanie Correia Portraits by New Bedford photographic studios, including M. Goulart, Arcade Studio (J.D. Ferreira), E. Berthiaume, Loring Studios, M.B. Pereira, Frenette, and Art Studio (M.S. Borkowski).

2023.57, ODHS Purchase Horsehair fly whisk with whalebone handle; Whaling journal from the bark Camilla of New Bedford (1867-1871); Whaling journal from ship Chris Mitchell of New Bedford (1856-1860); Folder of documents of the bark Petrol of New Bedford.

2023.58, Gift of Rita Pacheco Four Portuguese language newspapers (two partial): PROGRESSO / O Correio Portuguez published by F.C.B. Silva & Co., 62 Crapo Street New Bedford. Dated: January 6, 1906 and January 13, 1906.

2023.59, Gift of John Bockstoce Research notes and index card files compiled by John Bockstoce related to Arctic whaling, bowhead whale project, and Arctic Indigenous people.

2023.60, ODHS Purchase Miscellaneous objects and photographs from the estate of funeral director James E. Barton (1943-2023), including commemorative, religious and funerary items of local origin.

2023.61, Gift of George Mock Nye products, postcard, and printer’s stamp.

2023.62, Gift of James Harvie One ALS: Honolulu, June 15, 1861, from Caleb Carr (1829-1885), carpenter, to wife Abby Kelly Eddy (1834-1876), both of Bristol, RI.

2023.65, Anonymous donor One glass plate negative of “Gidley Farm resident.”

2023.66, Gift of Benjamin Harris “Walrus hunting scene,” c. 1799-1800.

Engraving from Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte (Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, 1792-1834).

2023.67, Gift of Charlie Chace Records of Descendents of Whaling Masters.

2023.68, Gift of Chris Hart One package of Greeno African Violet Planter Mix containing blue whale, ca. early 1960s.

2023.69, Transfer from East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY Whaling logbook from the ship Harrison.

The entries date from March 1851 until November 1852, and the ship left from New Bedford.

2023.70, Gift of Cynthia and Douglas Crocker William Bradford (1823-1892; American), Off the Coast of Labrador, 1880s. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches; Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902; American), Mountain Lake at Sunset, c. 1882. Oil on board, 14 x 20 inches; William Trost Richards (18331905; American), Conanicut Island, RI, 1885. Oil on panel, 15 x 26 inches.

2023.71, ODHS Purchase Duke Riley (American; b. 1972), No. 384 of the Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum, 2023. “Scrimshaw” on plastic bottle.

2023.72, ODHS Purchase Denise Wallace (Iñupiaq; b. 1957), Seal Hunt Ring, 1990. Sterling silver, fossilized walrus tusk ivory, and lapis lazuli.

2023.63, Gift of Sally Aldrich Charles L Morse, illustrator, group of ten postcards of Nonquitt/South Dartmouth, 1981.

2023.73, Gift of Maura Coughlin Harper’s Weekly fold-out supplement dated 12/19/1874 with scene of Seaweed Gatherers; one vintage French postcard (Pornichet) of cart loaded with seaweed being pulled; photograph of oxcart with seaweed and man shoveling.

2023.64, ODHS Purchase Three original photos of an Arctic explorer, produced by Brown (studio), New Bedford.

2023.74, ODHS Purchase Candice Smith Corby (American; b. 1972) and William Pettit (American; b. 1972), Far and Away, 2021. Oil-on-linen painting.

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BEYOND NEW BEDFORD Touring exhibitions and collection loans allow for objects from the museum collection and projects organized by our curators to travel, building brand exposure and increasing accessibility to and awareness of the museum and its mission outside of the city of New Bedford.

TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

COLLECTION LOANS

Re/Framing the View: NineteenthCentury American Landscapes Minnesota Marine Art Museum October 14, 2023 - August 4, 2024

OL2023.2 – American Folk Art Museum/ Historic Deerfield Unnamed Figures: Black Presence & Absence in Early American Vernacular Art, AFAM, November 15, 2023– March 24, 2024; Historic Deerfield, May 1, 2024–August 4, 2024: Joseph Russell Shoemaker Dining Room of Abn. Russell, New Bedford, ca. 1848.

Watercolor on paper, 1962.4.13; Joseph Russell Shoemaker South Parlor of Abraham Russell, Esq., New Bedford, ca. 1848. Watercolor on paper, 1962.4.10

Seals and Society Province Lands Visitor Center Provincetown, MA August 1 – September 12, 2023 GARSCON Conference Baltimore, MD September 16 – 19, 2023 Seacoast Science Center Rye, NH October 2 – December 12, 2023 14

OL2023.3 – Seastreak, LLC Long-term loan of model of the Kate Cory, 2016.53.

OL2023.4 – Northeast Maritime Institute, Fairhaven Long-term loan of cannon and cannonball from the HMS Nimrod, 2001.100.11093 OL2023.5 – Mystic Seaport Museum Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates, October 21, 2023 through March 2, 2025: Journal kept on schooner Emeline of Mystic from 1843 to 1844 by Washington Fosdick; Journal kept onboard Lucy Ann of Wilmington, Del. from 1841 to 1844 by John Martin.

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CONSERVATION PROJECTS In 2023, 71 objects from the Museum’s collection were treated for repair or stabilization.Some were relatively simple interventions while others were complicated, requiring the involvement of multiple conservators. Categories of treated objects include: Glass, Scrimshaw, Paintings, Furniture, Works on Paper, Biological specimens, Ship Models, Tools, Toys and Machinery.

The most complex conservation initiative in 2023 was undoubtedly the fullcleaning and lining reversal performed on the first panel, Sailing Day, off Palmer’s Island, New Bedford, Ship NIGER from Charles Sidney Raleigh’s 275foot-long Panorama of a Whaling Voyage painted between 1878-1880. In 2022, the Museum was awarded a competitive national grant from the “Save America’s Treasures” program, a National Park Service grant program in collaboration with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Museum commissioned Gianfranco Pocobene Studio to execute this ground-breaking conservation project. The single panel underwent over 380 hours of work to restore it to its original appearance, and advanced techniques in art conservation.

2023 ANNUAL REPORT

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MUSEUM LEARNING Education is at the heart of NBWM’s mission to ignite learning through explorations of art, history, science and culture. Through field trips, school groups, adult learning opportunities and group tours, we welcomed learners of all ages into the Museum, as well as out in their classrooms and our community.

K-12 SCHOOL GROUPS The Accord School Action Based Enterprises Alfred J. Gomes Elementary School Alma del Mar Charter School Bernazzani Elementary School Betsey B. Winslow Elementary Brighton High School Brooks Elementary School Bryantville Elementary School Cape Cod Academy Carney Academy Central Valley Christian Academy Charles Sumner School Chilmark School Cuttyhunk STEAM Academy and Island Institute of Maine TLC (Teaching Learning Collaborative) Dartmouth High School Dearborn Academy DeValles Elementary School Dighton Elementary 16

Diman Regional High School Ellen R. Hathaway School Federal Furnace Elementary School FLAD Portuguese School Ford Middle School Frederick Gunn School Friends Academy George R. Austin Intermediate School George R Martin Elementary Global Learning Charter Public School The Gordon School Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School The Harley School Hawthorne Valley High School High Mowing School John A. Parker Elementary Joseph Case High School Joseph DeMello Elementary School Joyce Kilmer K-8 School Keio Academy of New York Kingston Intermediate School

Lawrence School Leroy Wood School Lightning Learners Homeschool Classes Martin Luther King, Jr. K-6 School The Mead School Mooseheart Child City & School Moses Brown School Nativity Preparatory School New Bedford Nazarene Christian Academy New Bedford High School North Pembroke Elementary School Northern MA Homeschoolers Pennfield School Phineas Bates Elementary School Pilgrims Progress Home-School Association Plymouth Public Schools Portsmouth Abbey School Potter School Prospect Mountain High School Provincetown IB Schools Prudence Island School Foundation NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM

Pueblo West High School RI Transition Academy Richardson Olmsted Elementary Rising Tide Charter Public School Riverview School San Miguel School SEA Education Association Somerville High School Southcoast Homeschoolers Southeastern Regional Vocational Tech High School The Speyer Legacy School St. George’s School St. Joseph School St. Francis Xavier School St. Mary’s Catholic School Tabor Academy Taylor Elementary School Teaticket Elementary School Thayer Academy Thomas J. Kenny Elementary School The Waldorf School of Cape Cod Waring School Westport Elementary School The Wheeler School Whitney Academy William S. Greene School AFTER SCHOOL, CAMP OR YOUTH PROGRAMS Argosy Collegiate Charter School Bayside Family YMCA Bridgewater State University Bristol Warren COZ Brown University Division of PreCollege & Undergraduate Programs Community Art Center Department of Community Services Discovery Language Academy Duxbury Bay Maritime School East Greenwich Recreation Department Friends Academy Summer Camp Hull Girl Scouts NBAM/Parker School Pawtucket School Department COZ Samuel Watson Summer School Program Sea Education Association Sea Lab Something Fishy Camp – Fishing Heritage Center Sunshine’s Place Youth Opportunities Unlimited

2023 ANNUAL REPORT

COLLEGE GROUPS Bridgewater State University Bryant University Harvard College (Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village) Lee University MBL (Marine Biological Laboratories) Rhode Island School of Design Showa Boston Institute Stonehill College University of Chicago University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth SMAST University of Massachusetts-Amherst University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth University of New England University of Notre Dame Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ADULT GROUPS Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area, Center for Professional Studies Blue Water Sailing Club Cape Cod Custom Tours Clark University Alumni & Friends Community College Student Leadership Association Community Connections DEME Group Equinor Happy Book Club Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1961 The Jamestown (RI) Senior Center Linden Ponds MIT Retirees Association Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Docents Newcomers of Falmouth One Wingate Way Orchard Cove Senior Retirement Community RISD Museum Docents The Second Half LifeLong Learning Institute Sippican Woman’s Club Town of East Greenwich Senior Center Unitarian Church of Newport US Coast Guard OFFSITE OUTREACH Bourne Intermediate School STEAMposium Feast of the Blessed Sacrament Family Day Hayden-McFadden Elementary School Lincoln Elementary School New Bedford Public Schools Back to School Extravaganza

APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM New Bedford Whaling Museum’s High School Apprenticeship Program provides high school students in New Bedford with access to resources and experiences that deepen community engagement, promote personal and professional development, and cultivate college and career success.

The Apprenticeship Program enrolls students who are entering the tenth grade and who live in New Bedford.

Apprentices learn about whales and whale biology, the history of their city and the stories of the countless people whose culture, language, and accomplishments are exhibited throughout the Museum. Over three years, students connect their learning at the Museum to real-world experiences, visiting cultural sites, planning and hosting events and serving as Museum ambassadors. At the same time, the program helps Apprentices prepare for their futures. Apprentices visit college campuses, listen to career speakers, go on career shadows, and receive support through the college application and financial aid process.

HIGHLIGHTS • Apprentices earned stipends in 220 program hours • Senior Apprentices received over 50 hours of college and financial aid counseling and support • Apprentices and Alumni traveled with the program to Bridgewater State University, Bristol Community College, Northeast Maritime Institute, UMass-Amherst, and UMassDartmouth • One senior attended a fully-funded accepted students weekend at Georgetown University • After graduation, all Senior Apprentices either matriculated at a four-year college (Bridgewater State University, Georgetown University, Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth), gained employment or entered military service.

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M E S SAG E F RO M T H E T R E A S U R E R

FINANCIAL SUMMARY

As Treasurer of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, it is my pleasure to provide an overview of the Museum’s 2023 financial performance.

For the year ending December 31, 2023 and 2022

A year ago, we opted for strategic investments to enhance both the awareness of, and experience in, the Museum with the hope of growing our audience. In 2023, our additional investment paid off.

NBWM membership grew by 11%, and overall visitation increased 15% - to more than 81,000. As a result, and including a small price increase, attendance-driven operating income increased by 33%. Thanks to our generous supporters, contributed income for operations also increased by 30% to more than $4 million, leading to an impressive year over year overall revenue gain of 28%.

Operating expenses, always carefully managed, grew by 13%, as, in addition to the inflationary environment, we added to our programs and our team. In sum, total 2023 operating revenue of nearly $6.9 million exceeded operating expenses by $631 thousand - a very satisfactory result.

Our balance sheet continues strong and without debt, an effective shield from higher interest rates. With $776 thousand in new gifts plus portfolio gains, our endowment grew from $16.4 million in 2022 to $18.6 million at last year-end.

Last month, our annual financial audit was completed and a clean opinion issued, assuring us that the Museum continues to demonstrate its commitment to fundraising efficiency and strong fiscal management.

This commitment earned us the highest GuideStar “Platinum Seal” and the top fourstar rating from Charity Navigator.

2024 is off to a strong start with all indications of another year of momentum and growth. Visitation in Q1 reached a tenyear high and the Museum is bustling with activities for all ages.

Finally, while I report on years past and present, it’s our financial future where we’re making our big bet… and that bet is on you, our supporters. Thanks to your enthusiastic and continuing support, we have accomplished so much and we are eager to write our next chapter. Thank you one and all.

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Operating Income

2023

2022

Contributed income $4,051,423 Contributions of non-financial assets 520,778 Investment return allocated to operations 859,044 Earned income 1,459,306 Total Operating Income $6,890,551

$3,043,831 449,610 787,836 1,098,378 $5,379,655

Operating Expenses Program Services Supporting Services Total Operating Expenses Net Operating Income

$4,155,991 1,395,554 $5,551,545 $(171,890)

$4,672,859 1,586,469 $6,259,328 $631,223

Sources of 2023 Operating Funds Museum store

Other earned income

5%

Admissions

Uses of 2023 Operating Funds Fundraising and development

Membership programs, unrestricted support

5%

11%

Collections and exhibitions

7%

Management and general

18%

35%

46%

12% Endowment draw

Membership, visitor experience, and store

21% Grants and restricted support

13% 9%

Library, scholarship, and digital equipment

18% Museum learning and public programs

Net Assets

Endowment Market Value FY2019

$14.7 million

FY2019

$31.5 million

FY2020

$16.9 million

FY2020

$32.7 million

FY2021

$19.2 million

FY2021

$35.9 million

FY2022

$16.4 million

FY2022

$34.0 million

FY2023

$18.6 million

FY2023

$37.0 million

Old Dartmouth Historical Society 2023 Charity Ratings

For a complete copy of the 2023 Audited Financial Statements, please visit whalingmuseum.org/about/financials or call 508-997-0046 ext. 126.

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DONORS Individual Donors The following individual contributors supported the Museum with cumulative giving of $150 or more to the annual fund, membership, or other program-specific initiatives between January 1 and December 31, 2023. Though space restraints permit us to list only gifts of $150 or more, the Museum is grateful for support at every level.

$100,000+ Anonymous Nancy & John W.* Braitmayer Cynthia & Douglas Crocker II Carolyn & Robert Macy Gelpke Joan K. & Irwin M. Jacobs Sloan M. & Wick Simmons

$50,000- $99,999 Anonymous Susan S. Brenninkmeyer* Tally & John N. Garfield, Jr. Patricia P. Lawrence Jennifer & Davis Webb

$25,000 - $49,999 Christina M. Bascom Victoria & David Croll Bess Dawson Hughes & James Hughes Ann & D. Lloyd Macdonald Edgenie H. & Donald S. Rice Cathy & Henry Roberts

$10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous Mary Jean & R. William Blasdale Thomas P. Barry & Nancy Shanik Marnie Ross Chardon & Marc E. Chardon Michael Dury Marilyn & David Ferkinhoff Debra & Randall Fowler Vanessa & John Gralton Laura M. & Peter T. Grauer Alison Hedges & Robert Saunders Lucile P. & William C.S. Hicks Marianna C. & Edward M. Howland II Elizabeth T. & Morris W. Kellogg Margaret & Per G.H. Lofberg Holly & Joseph E. McDonough Faith & Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar Jane & Neil Pappalardo Anthony R. Sapienza Tricia & Chris Schade Gilbert L. Shapiro 2023 ANNUAL REPORT

Carol M.Taylor & John H. Deknatel Ann Webster Susan & Harvey Wolkoff

$5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Laurie & David Barrett Jewelle W. & Nathaniel J. Bickford Martha & Peter Blatchford Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer & Dan Dwyer Ruth B. Ekstrom Margaret B. Howland Maryellen & James Hughes Sarah Jackson Patricia A. Jayson Patricia & John M. Kalisz Franny & William N. Keene Frances Levin Sharon Ireland Lewis Amanda & Quentin McMullen Joan Dolian & Per Moen Linda Owens Jill & Thomas Pappas Carolyn & James Rubenstein Donna Sachs & Gilbert Perry Tina & Paul Schmid R. Patricia & Edward Schoppe, Jr. Kristin & Roger Servison Anna & George Shaw Bonnie & Robert Stapleton Dola Hamilton Stemberg Fredi & Howard H. Stevenson Martha & Bernard Taradash Sigrid & Ladd Thorne Patricia Diane Valas Grace & David A. Wyss

$2,500 - $4,999 Lisa Schmid Alvord & Joel Alvord Paulina R. & Henry M. Arruda Pamela & Ricardo Bermudez Thomasin Berry & John Desmond Joanne & David Cameron Alzira & Jose S. Castelo Ann & Richard Connolly Janelle Cooper M.D. & Kathleen K. Hanson Susan & Gary Grosart Randy Harris Mona & Robert Ketcham Susan Leclair & James Griffith Judith N. & Edward* G. Lund, Jr. Susan McLaren & Philip Guymont Laura McLeod & Reidar Rasmussen Caroline K. & George B. Mock III Elaine Murphy Carolyn Osteen Karen & Claude James Prieur

Victoria Pope & Joel Brenner Katherine Read & William Sommerville Barbara & Thomas Slaight Janice & John Smyth Margot Stone Stephen Taber Janet P. Whitla Lisa & George Whitney

$1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (3) Margaret & Robert Ackerman Charles Altschul Patricia Altschuller Patricia L. Andrade, M.D. Deborah A. & Benjamin B. Baker Margherita & Michael Baldwin Pamela & Joseph M. Barry Catherine Bartholomew & John Ricketson Robin & Milo Beach Dora Beatty & Peter Macdonald Jackie & John Beauregard Henry P. Becton, Jr. Sharon & William Betts Elizabeth & Edward C. Brainard II Eric A. Braitmayer & Rev. Jack H. Haney Nannette & William M. Braucher Anne Broholm Rid Bullerjahn Jayne & Richard Burkhardt Ann & David T. Caldwell Betty Ann & Jack Cannell Richard Carona Elizabeth M. Chapin Marni Clippinger & Sheffield Van Buren Amanda Cobb & David Halberstadt Christine & Eric Cody Jeff & Jennifer Collins Janet & William Coquillette Paula Cordeiro & David O’Brien Nancy & David Corkery Carl J. Cruz Jane & Jerry Dauterive Joan Decollibus & Douglas A. Balder Priscilla & Allan Ditchfield C.C. Dyer Jean & Ford Elsaesser Annette Ewing Elizabeth Fallon & Michael L. Waters Helga Faulenbach Patricia & Armand Fernandes Linda & Charles W. Findlay Stephen Fletcher Viki A. Fowler & John D. Kelleher Elsie R. Fraga Jennifer & Peter Francis Cynthia & James Gajewski

Deborah & Peter Gates Margaret & Clark Gee Karen & Jack Gierhart Sarah H. Godfrey Jack Gorman & John Mandeville Abby & David Gray Marjorie & Nicholas Greville Anne & Jerry Heller Polly & Prentiss C. Higgins Denise & Charles Hixon Samuel Huber Nina & James Hunt Catherine & Ross Hunter Lauren Jezienicki Jamee & Michael Kane Martha & Michael Keating Lilian Kemp & David H. Marks Katherine A. Kirby Nancy W. & Edward F. Kurtz Gig & Scott W. Lang Judith Lewis Doris & John Ludes Beth & Carmine Martignetti Kathy & Russell Martorana M. Holt Massey Elizabeth & Thomas McKay Hannah C. & Michael J. Moore Susan & Anthony Morris Barbara Mulville Joanna & David Nikka Pamela T. & R. Henry Norweb Barbara & Harry O’Hare John O’Shaughnessy Christine W. Parks Heather Parsons & Andrew Kotsatos Alice Rice Perkins & Mark C. Perkins Emily & John C. Pinheiro Kim Redfield & Theodore M. Romanow Margaret-Ann & Clifton* Rice Mr. & Mrs. Peter Richmond Deborah C. Robbins Susan & Brian Rothschild Jessie & Sam Rubenstein Margot & Mark Schmid Bonnie & Louis Silverstein Glena & Richard D. Sisson, Jr. Jeannie & Mason Smith Monica & Alan Steinert Judith & Robert Sterns Ellen Stone Ulla & Paul Sullivan Michelle Taylor Kate Thompson & Dan Calano Kristina & James Tomlinson Emily Trueblood & Ernest Patrikis Mallory & John Waterman Raymond Butler Weiss Laura & Wistar Wood

* deceased

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DONORS, continued $150 - $999 Anonymous (12) Thomas Abe Neilson Abeel Susan & Charles Abizaid Elizabeth & Kenneth Ackerman Guilliaem Aertsen Susan & Bruce Almeida Pamela Barton Almy & Robert B. Almy C. Douglass Alves Melissa & Wes Alwang James Anderson Michael Angelini Patricia & Christopher B. Arnold Jane & Gary Ash Nancy & R. Elliot Ashley Kristine Audette Rocha Susan & Joel Avila Peter Bailet Deborah & William Baker Taylor & Teri Baldwin Jeanne & Perry A. Ball Susan S. Barnet Dana & Holly Barrows Faith Sweetser Barry Ana & Dudley Bauerlein Jeffrey Beaudry Tamara & Carl Beckman Charlotte R. Berman Dennis Berrios Jennifer Bertrand & Christopher Smith Teresa Betit & Howard Lurie Jeffrey Bilezikian Sandra Bilodeau Susan & Desmond H. Birkett Linda & John Bodenmann Dr. J Alexander Bodkin, M.D. Susan & Nicholas Bonn Daphne L. Borden Elsie Boulanger Kathie Brenner & Mark Weber Penny Brewer & Nathan Bekemeier Marlissa Briggett & Peter Necheles Jennifer & John Brindisi Rodney Hilton Brown Leslie & Wendell S. Brown Hanne & Robert Browne David Brownell Sharon K. & Thomas F. Brownell Leigh Brownell-Currens & Michael Currens Ellen Bruzelius & William Tifft Elisabeth Buck & Tom Hertweck Laurie & John K. Bullard Tia & Peter Bullard Sally Bullard Barbara & Carleton Burr Teresa A. & Robert J. Caldas, D.O. Heather Caldwell Susan M. Camacho & William J. Hollman Kenneth Camara Sophronia Camp & Jeffrey McMahon 20

Crystal C. Campbell Maria Cantor Ellen & Edward Carlson Paula Carmichael Amy Carroll & Evelyn Crocker Ellen S. & Richard W. Cartun Mr. Jordan Castro Erin & Matthew Cate Ruth H. & Richard W. Cederberg Mary & Jeffrey Chandor Donald Charest Helen & David R. Chipman Brenda & Tom Clark Robert S. Cocroft Danielle D. & Louis D. Coffin Florence & Neal Cohen Patrice D. & Jeremiah L. Coholan Kay H. Collins Nina & Alex Collmer Heather Conover & Stephen Brass Stacey & Christopher Constas Merry & John Conway Harold & Faye Cook Cheryl & William Corvello Susan & Antonio Costa Spencer Cowles Sheila & Edward A. Crapo Jill & William Creevy Ruth & Robert Crocker Edwina W. & James M. Cronin Sarah & Howard Crowell Brenda Cullen Anne Marie Cullimore & David Michaud Victoria & Robert Cunningham Molly & Chris Cutler Katherine & Frederick Dabney Joan Dalton & Stephen Taylor Judith & Murray Danforth Thomas & Steven Darwin Colleen Dawicki & Jeremy Daigold Eric & Angela Dawicki Sue & Bob Daylor Helen DeGroot Charles Deknatel Judith R. & Charles F. DeMailly, Jr. Cynthia K. & Rhet H. C. Denault Madeleine Deschamps & Edward P. Hoffer Jane A. Desforges & Michael J. White Anne Devaney Patricia & Stewart Dew Brenda & Ronald Dias Pamela & Robert DiFilippo Ellen T. & Irving W. Dingwell Nicole Doliner Zelinda & John Douhan Mary Beth & John Dowd Deborah & Henry Drinker Madeline & Steven Duarte Sarah & William Ducas Mary Anne Dufault Charles Duponte Jacqueline Dupuis Constance & Jerome Dyer

Maureen & Michael Ecker Virginia & Harold Eckert Nancy E. & Lawrence K. Edwards Nancy D. & James D. Edwards Sarah Carlson & Henry Elliot Cornelia & Robert Elmore Merry & Ralph Eustis Maureen & Hugh Fanning Steve Farley Kathy & Jim Feeney Mary Feeney Lori & Joel Feenstra Linda & Peter Fenton Emily & Horace Field Amy & James Finlay Shannon Finning Michael & Karen Fiorile Janet & James Fitzgibbons Dorothy & Stewart Forbes Muriel & Allan Fortes Helen & Andrew Fredricks Janet Freedman Helen Frink Jennifer & Bill Gady Joyce & Victor Gagnon Jennifer & Arthur G. Gaines Evan & Harris Galkin Cheryl & Henry Gamsby Joanne Garfield Mary Lou & G. Kenneth Garrett Barbara & Thomas Geagan Mr. Joseph Geary George Gebelein Amy George Ms. Patricia Gerrior & Mr. Gordon Waring Sarah S. & Vasant A. Gideon Lynne & Burney Gifford Susan & Benjamin Gilmore Kim & Steven Gladstone Joseph R. Glennon III Barbara & Milton Glicksman Bronson Goddard Andrea M. Golden & John B. McManus Paula Celeste Gomes Noversa Ph. D. Frank Gracia Sharon & Richard Grahn Barbara Lemperly Grant & Frederic D. Grant, Jr. Lauren Doyle & Kevin Grant Margaret & Samuel Gray Roger Grayson Dennis I. Greene Ellen & Gerard Grenier Elaine P. & Joseph E. Grever Robert Grindrod Nancy Grinnell & David Sharp Nancy & Michael Grogan Lisa Gross & Richard Hoffman Barbara Grunkemeyer Teresa & Peter Hacunda Hope & Samuel Hale Cecilia A. & Michael P. Halter Mr. & Mrs. Gary Hamilton Lorriane & Grayson Hanley Samantha Hanman

Maria & David Harrington Patricia A. Harrington Helena & Kenneth Hartnett Juliana & Todd Hassett Carla & Stephen Hatfield Pamela & James Hayes-Bohanan Pamela & Ted Haznar Clare Healy Foley & Paul Foley Dorothy Hebden-Heath Susan Heide Janne Hellgren & Jack Boesen Judith & Edward Herlihy Ms. Sophia Hermann Marianne Hickey Lesley Hill & Alan Stone Janet & Richard Hitchcock Amy Holden & Brian Freyermuth Margaret & Buell Hollister Carolyn C. & Michael D. Holmes Cathleen S. & Donald T. Hood Carolyn Hotchkiss Jessie W. Howland Robert Howland Michael S. Hudner Johanna & Ian Hughes Paul J. Hughes Elizabeth Huidekoper Anthony Hume Gail J. & Arne Isaksen Mr. Nicholas Iwanisziw Pilar & Rich Jablonski Maggie Jackson & John Hitchcock Merita Hopkins & James Ring Evelyn & Ned Jackson Marsha Jackson & John B. Dockstader Richard B. Jacobs Hope & David L. K. Jeffrey Dorothy & Geoffrey Jenkins Doreen Jennings Edith Johnson Nancy Johnson & Alan Minard Luana Josvold & Gary Johnson Jacqueline Jung Martin J. Kain Jennifer Kaukas Keith W. Kauppila Andrea & Henry R. Keene Judy Keller Mary Ellen Kennedy Julia & Stephen Kiechel Kimberly & Donald King Sara & William King Ms. Trudy Kingery Anne & Peter Kirschmann Jannae Knospe & William Cannon Brenda Knowles & Roger Fortier Michelle Koscec Barbara & Stephen Kratovil Cynthia & William Krause Rhett & Susan Krause Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Kugler Tali & Mark Kwatcher James Ladd Diane Laflamme Jodie Lambeau

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Giles Landberg Tenney & Raymond C. Lantz, Jr. Bruce W. Larson Holly Laurent Leslie Lawrence Lisa & Michael Lawrence Jessica Leasaure & Julian Rubio Mary Ellen Lees Martha C. Leonard Susan Lester & Lloyd Klickstein Paul E. Levasseur Ottilie & Jeffrey Levine Elizabeth Linzee Kenneth Lipman Anne Moore Lisio & Philip Lisio Joaquim Livramento Erika Lopez & Timothy Beaulieu Elena & Thomas P. Lovett Lisa & Steven D. Lubar Dara & Michael Luca Rosemary P. Lucas Susan & Donald H. Luce Mary & Daniel Macedo Ann & Peter Macedo Andrea & Thomas Macha Paul Magid Mary D. Mandeville Katey Marancik & Harvey Walsh Ann & Robert Marklin Susan & David S. Martin Maureen M. & Michael S. Martowska Henry Mastey Colleen McCarthy & Alexander Bauer Kristen Mccormack & Michael Taubenbenger Fair Alice & Peter H. McCormick Freddy & Alexander McFerran Jennifer & Andrew McIntire Nancy W. McKelvy Juliette McLennan Fran & Philip McMann Pamela & George McNamara Diane & Frank McNamee Mary Anne McQuillan & Fred Sterner Susan & Dexter Mead Emily Mead & Robert Santos Susan Mead Joan Medeiros Louise D. Medeiros Sandra & Peter Medeiros Daniela Melo & Timothy Walker Charles W. Mello Joanne Mendes Patricia Merritt Leslie Meyer-Leon & Robert Kleinberg Frances Middendorf Andrew Middleton Debbie & Edward Mikus Lorna Miles Mark W. Mittelman Nancy D. Mitton Kathleen & William Mogayzel Benita & Eugene A. Monteiro Donna & Jim Moody 2023 ANNUAL REPORT

Roberta Moore Barbara Moran & Brian Collins Mayo & Dan Morgan Kathy & Morgan Mowbray Betts & F. Wisner Murray Marjorie Grinols Murray Karen & James Myslik Angela Natho Karen Nercessian & Nathan Fenton Lara Neri Maureen O’Brien John O’Connell Kimberly O’Connor Tammy O’Connor Pamela & Bruce J. Oliveira Philip Oliveira Edward Olivier & Richard Warburton Grace & Edward Osediacz Rachel Pachter & Jeremiah Hill Linda & Whitfield Painter M. Palmer Dominique & Thomas Palmer Ann Parson Sandria R. Parsons Ingrid & Paul Pawlowski Pamela & Richard M. Peirce Celeste Penney Janice G. & Barry W. Perry Joseph M. Perry Alice & Robert Petersen Lani Peterson & Breck Arnzen Beverly & James Philip Leigh & Peter Phillips Eleanor & Richard Phillips Joan Pierce Nathan Pierce Joy Plaisted & Royd Bjornoy Christine & Raymond Plante Pamela & Christopher Polloni Alexis & William Popik Alexandra & Robert Pozzo Kathryn Koken & John Preece Mary & David G. Prentiss Lucy Iannotti & David M. Prentiss Ann M. Proctor Sara & Christopher Quintal Roseann Radosevich & Richard A. Pline Elizabeth F. Rainoff Sasha & Mark Rasmussen Rev. Racquel & Mr.Von Ray Clara Read & Jay Hurd Rosemary & Victor Rebello Barbara & Terrence Reideler Donald T. Reilly Crystal & William Ribich Karen Richmond & Robert Starnes Mary Ellen & William Rill Ann & Edward Ritchie Cynthia & Edward Ritter Kathleen A. & Ronald M. Rivera Carol Robbins & John Case Shirley M. Robbins Shermika Roberts & Roxanne Sangstar

Katherine & Phillip Roberts-Gaudet Judith & George Robinson Kathryn & Robert Rogers Michael Rodgers Laura Rollins & Greg Blankinship Maurice P. Rondeau Maria Rosario & James Harris Monica Anne Rosario Cynthia & Bruce Rose Sarah & Andrew Rose Cecilia & Lewis C. Ross Carol & David Ryan Daniel Sachs Anne Sadow Rev. Stephen B. Salvador Nancy Santoro Ruth & Dererk Santos Kathleen & Richard Saunders Meaghan Sawin & Lauren M. Walsh Frederic M. Schaefer, Jr. Jennifer L. & Daniel J. Schlitzer Barbara & Peter Schmidt Katharine & Thomas Schmitt Deborah Scott & Ralph Martin Jody Seivert Kathleen Sharkey-Jordan & Craig F. Jordan Ross E. Sherbrooke Carla Sherman Louise & Larry T. Shwartz Kirsten Sims & Brandon Constant Jonathan L. Sirois Elizabeth B. Sittenfeld Ari J. & Eve Y. Sky Katherine Sloan-Tavares Donna Small & James D. Thompson Charles Smiler Charles & Eleanor Smith Cheri L. Sheridan & Joseph S. Drake June A. Smith & Kenneth A. Shwartz Nancy T. Smith & Christopher Gustin Robert B. Smith Alice E. & William C. Smith Jennifer Sonnabend Bernadette Souza John D. Spooner Kendra & David St. Aubin Irene & Roger Stanford Jim Stevens Jean C. Stewart Barbara-Jean & Thomas Stiles Frederick Stillman Susan J. & Charles M. Stillman Catherine M. Stone William M. Straus Jackie & David Stubbs Kathleen & Walter Suchon Deborah & Nicholas Sullivan Martha & R. Michael Sullivan Roberta Sullivan Joan Supir & Joel Ristuccia

Barry W. Sylvia Teresa & Matthew Taylor Patricia & Richard Taylor Richard S. Taylor Elizabeth Thomas Sheridan & James Thomas Matthew Thomas Brook & Roy D. Thomas Kathleen & E.R. Thompson Patrice Tiedemann Joan & Edwin Tiffany Wayne Tirrell Dorsey & Ted Titcomb Jack Towle Sarah & James Treco Jane & Michael Tremblay Pamela R. Trippe Helen A. Trumbull Cindy Turner James Turner Elizabeth & Peter Turowski Barbara & Darryl Umland Barbara LeBlanc & Robert Unger Joan & James Vaccarino Carl Valenstein Catherine & William Van Meter Lawrence R. Velte Roberta Verville Hilary & Sam Vineyard Alfred J. Walker Rev. Barry W. Wall Ann & Brad Wallace Joan & Robert Wallace Emily Walter & Jarrett McPhee Rebecca & Austin Ward William Warden Elizabeth Waring Gloria & Richard Waterhouse Elizabeth & Robert M. Wax Happy & Henley Webb Clara Weeks-Boutilier & Carl Boutilier Alison Wells & Jaison Grau Laurie & James Wheaton Bailey & Philip Whitbeck Elizabeth & Benjamin White Mary Ellen & Bob White Marjorie & Norman Whitehead Tracy Whitford & Charles Loveridge Rebecca M. & Richard K. Wilhelmsen Virginia & John Wilkens Kathryn & Robert Windsor Judith & Dennis Winn Marcy Wintrub & Duane Barton Christopher Wolkowicz Terry Wolkowicz Janice A. Wood Geneva Woodruff Lisa & David W. Wright Cynthia Zembo Ann & Hans Ziegler

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DONORS, continued Trusts, Funds, Corporate, Foundation and Government Support The following institutional contributors supported the Museum with cumulative giving of $150 or more between January 1 and December 31, 2023.

$100,000+ City of New Bedford- ARPA Cultural Facilities Fund Jessie Ball duPont Fund Institute of Museum and Library Services The Henry Luce Foundation Massachusetts Cultural Council SouthCoast Community Foundation Jacobs Family Donor Fund Terra Foundation for American Art The William M. Wood Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999 Bank of America

$25,000 - $49,999 Kenneth T. & Mildred S. Gammons Charitable Foundation, Inc. Island Foundation, Inc. The Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Foundation The Quarterdeck Foundation William E. Schrafft & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust Southcoast Community Foundation Acushnet Foundation Fund

$10,000 - $24,999 BayCoast Bank The Carney Family Charitable Foundation CIRI Foundation City of New Bedford - Community Development Block Grant City of New Bedford - Community Preservation Act Trust Fund The Decorative Arts Trust Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation The Howard Bayne Fund Mass Humanities Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp Vineyard Wind The Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999 Baldwin Brothers, Inc. Amy Janes Bare Charitable Trust Bristol County Savings Bank Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation, Inc. Highland Street Foundation Move the World Foundation The Nature Conservancy Sylvia Group an Alera Group Company

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$2,500 - $4,999 Acushnet Company Allan Smith & Company, CPAs PC BankFive Boston Marine Society Deme Offshore US Fiber Optic Center, Inc. New Bedford Cultural Council Taunton Federal Credit Union WJFD-FM Inc. World Wildlife Fund

$1,000 - $2,499 Barden’s Boat Yard, Inc. The Castelo Group Real Estate Barden’s Boat Yard, Inc. Clube Madeirense S.S. Sacramento, Inc. D.F. Pray General Contractors Demoulas Foundation Empire Loan First Citizens’ Federal Credit Union KAM Appliances Ludes Family Foundation Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Inc. The Markel Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh Nye Lubricants, Inc. Quahog Republic Whaler’s Tavern Sensing Systems South Coast Improvement, Co. Springtide Seaweed, LLC. Wal-Mart

$500 - $999 Babbitt Steam Specialty Co. Fairhaven Cultural Council Friends of Fall River Public Library Incorporated Proprietors of Nonquitt Inlaid Antiques Machado Silvetti NorthStar Learning Centers, Inc. Westport Cultural Council

$250 - $499 101 Studios, LLC AAA Northeast Acushnet Public Library Ames Free Library Attleboro Public Library Auburn Public Library The Barr Foundation Barrington Public Library Berkley Public Library Blanding Public Library Boskalis Offshore Management, LLC Brockton Public Library Brownell Library Carter’s Clothing and Footwear Cranston Public Library Dighton Public Library Dover Town Library East Providence Public Library

East Smithfield Public Library Falmouth Public Library Friends of the Dedham Public Library, Inc. Friends of the Eldredge Public Library IMCA Trading, Ltd John Curtis Free Library Jonathan Bourne Public Library Joseph Plumb Memorial Library Lakeville Public Library Lumanity Medical Affairs Consulting, LLC. Maine Seaweed Council Mansfield Public Library Marion Library Association Mattapoisett Free Public Library Maury Loontjens Memorial Library Medfield Memorial Public Library Middleborough Public Library The Millicent Library Moby Dick Brewing Company, Inc. New Bedford Free Public Library North Providence Union Free Library North Smithfield Public Library Plymouth Public Library Portsmouth Free Public Library Raynham Public Library Rogers Free Library Sandwich Public Library Somerset Public Library South Yarmouth Library Southcoast Hospitals Group Sturgis Library Swansea Public Library Taunton Public Library Thomas Crane Public Library Tiverton Public Library Ventress Memorial Library Wareham Free Library West Yarmouth Library Westport Free Public Library Woods Hole Public Library

$150 - $249 Dartmouth Historical & Arts Society, Inc. Leadership SouthCoast Massachusetts Department of Transportation New Bedford Economic Development Council New Bedford Ocean Cluster New Bedford Symphony Orchestra New England Fishery Management Council Southcoast Coalition for Early Childhood Education SouthCoast Film Forum, Inc. The Pittsburgh Foundation Trustees of Boston University Whitfield - Manjiro Friendship Society

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Honor/Memorial Contributors

In Memory of Barbara L. DeMello Sheila T. & John Paul McKenna Linda J. & Cuffy Tunstall

In Memory of William Matthews Peg Grady

In Memory of Eugene L. Dragon Maria Cantor

In Memory of Irene A. Medeiros Anonymous Louise D. Medeiros

In Honor of Kerrin Durrigan Michael Durrigan

In Memory of Jan Morse Robert J. Barney

In Memory of Helen M. Allen Anonymous

In Honor of James T. Dury Angela Natho

In Honor of Adam Overbay Bridget Donnelly

In Memory of Herbert & Lillian Andrew Deborah & George Palmer

In Honor of Michael Dury Cynthia & Stephen Haslam Angela Natho

In Honor of Robert Papkin Steven C. Papkin

In Honor of Jenny Bauer Mara Hart

In Honor of Margaret & Jerome Dyer Constance J. & Jerome M. Dyer

The Museum is grateful for gifts made in memory or honor of friends of the Museum between January 1 and December 31, 2023.

In Honor of Charles E. Beckman M. Palmer In Honor of John R. Bockstoce Louisa & Jeremiah Jones In Honor of John Bologna Christina Bologna In Honor of Nancy Braitmayer on her 90th Birthday Faith & Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar In Memory of Susan S. Brenninkmeyer Richard Carona Steve Farley Samantha Hanman Judith L. & Edward F. Herlihy Susan & Bradford Jenkins Michelle Koscec Karen & Claude James Prieur Courtney Tomaselli In Memory of Janet Plaisted Buehler David A. Buehler In Honor of Barbara & John Burner Michael Burner

In Honor of Mark Procknik Heather Caldwell

In Honor of Peter Fenton Karen Nercessian & Nathan Fenton

In Memory of Clifton Rice Sarah B. Budlong

In Honor of Gillian C. Fournier Pamela A. Noon

In Honor of Daniel Ricketson Anonymous

In Memory of Captain Herbert Galkin Evan & Harris Galkin

In Honor of Cathy Roberts Elaine P. & Joseph E. Grever

In Memory of William Gilkerson Bryan J. McSweeny In Memory of Buck Haberkorn Elaine Murphy In Memory of Robert E. Harding, Ph.D. Dolores Patenaude In Memory of Edward D. Hicks Edwina W. & James M. Cronin In Honor of Lucile P. Hicks Fredi & Howard H. Stevenson In Honor of Edward M. Howland II Elizabeth Jacobson In Memory of Llewellyn Howland III Jessie W. Howland

In Memory of Arnold Camara Kenneth Camara

In Honor of Dorothy Jenkins Martha & Peter Blatchford

In Honor of Brian Correia Elaine Correia

In Memory of Tucker Keene Franny & William N. Keene

In Memory of Gladys Couto Diana & Joseph J. Kelly

In Memory of Jack Larson Joy Larson

In Honor of Douglas Crocker II Beth & Carmine Martignetti

In Memory of Sylvia Levin Judith L. & Robert L. Sterns

In Honor of Logan Dacus Jean Grota

In Honor of Rosemary P. Lucas Susan & Gary A. Grosart

In Memory of Albert Dahl Sr. Thelma Bold

In Memory of Edward N. Lund, Jr. Judith L. & Robert L. Sterns

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In Memory of Joachim Pease Carl J. Cruz

In Honor of Daniel Rodrigues on his 95th Birthday Dona Rodrigues Taylor In Memory of Rita & Ruben Rosenfield Herbert Rosenfield In Memory of Anne M. Sparrow Elizabeth Chrisman Maureen B. & William F. Fischer Deborah Larson Rosemary P. Lucas Lorraine Perry Mary A. Riddle Cecilia & Lee Thomas Russell Edward Sparrow Joan R. & Patrick R. Sparrow Mary Ellen Sparrow In Memory of Cecelia E. Swiszcz Mary B. Swiszcz In Memory of Sandra Turner Cindy Turner & Carl Harvey In Memory of Joan Vanderpool Gayley Antonia Hollis Gayley In Memory of Joseph Vaughn Gail & John Sampieri Francine R. & Neil R. Schulman Robin & James Smith In Honor of Raymond Butler Weiss Erica Weiss-Laroche In Memory of Thomas R. Wholley Sarah Brett

Bourne Society The Bourne Society honors those who have included the Old Dartmouth Historical Society/ New Bedford Whaling Museum in their estate plans (as known to us as of December 31, 2023).

Anonymous (2) William Adamson* Howe Allen & Timothy Evans Richard S. Anderson* Hope Atkinson* Ruth S. Atkinson* Robert L. Austin & Elizabeth W. Morse Sylvia Thomas Baird* Robert O. Boardman* William J. Boylhart* Elizabeth & Edward C. Brainard II Nancy & John W.* Braitmayer Sally Bullard Byron A. Crampton Natalia Bento & James DeMello Ruth B. Ekstrom Temple Fawcett Elsie R. & Norbert P.* Fraga, D.M.D. Christina* & Peter* Gargas Arthur Gartaganis Susan & Gary Grosart Berna & Joseph Heyman Joan* & Ed* Hicks Johanna S.* & Frederic C.* Hood Margaret C. Howland* Maryellen Sullivan Hughes Elizabeth Huidekoper Mary B.* & Peter G.* Huidekoper Franny & William N. Keene and sons Betty K. Knowles* Annette L. Lantzius* Patricia P. & Robert A.* Lawrence Albert E. Lees III Margaret P. Lissak* Elizabeth I.* & J. Greer* McBratney Peter H. McCormick Laura E. McLeod Louise A. Melling* Martha Miller* Gratia Rinehart Montgomery* Barbara Mulville Patricia Nottage* Arthur H. Parker* Rev. Diana W. and Daniel A.* Phillips Rosemary Phillips Polly Duff Phipps Craig A.C. Reynolds Judith Westlund Rosbe Irving Coleman Rubin JoAnne L.* & Louis M.* Rusitzky Anthony R. Sapienza Roberta H. Sawyer* Barbara Schaefer 23

DONORS, continued Joseph Sciuto* Louis O. St. Aubin, Jr.* Ruth Young Taylor* Josephine Ashley Thayer* Sandra* Turner & Roderick H.* Turner, M.D. Suzanne Underwood* Elinor* & Thomas C.* Weaver Raymond Butler Weiss Dorothy* & Thomas H.* West Janet & Dean* Whitla E. Andrew Wilde, Jr.* Alice Hunt Williams* Edward H. Wing, Jr.* Laura & Douglas Wolford

Lagoda Society The Lagoda Society honors the Museum’s most generous donors with cumulative giving of $100,000 or more (as of December 31, 2023). Deceased members of our Lagoda Society are recognized posthumously in the year of their death, or with a living spouse.

Anonymous (6) Lisa Schmid Alvord & Joel Alvord Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Robert L. Austin & Elizabeth W. Morse Babbit Steam Specialty, Co. Deborah A. & Benjamin B. Baker Talbot Baker, Jr. Bank of America Pamela & Joseph M. Barry Christina M. Bascom BayCoast Bank Jewelle W. & Nathaniel J. Bickford Mary Jean & R. William Blasdale Nancy & John W.* Braitmayer Susan Sweetser Brenninkmeyer* Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation, Inc. Jayne & Richard Burkhardt The Carney Family Charitable Foundation City of New Bedford – Community Development Block Grant City of New Bedford Community Preservation Act Trust Fund Nancy & Lawrence Coolidge Nancy & David Corkery Cynthia & Douglas Crocker II Victoria & David Croll Jessie Ball duPont Fund Edward Livingston Baker Trust Helen E. Ellis Charitable Fund Helga Faulenbach Marilyn & David Ferkinhoff Patricia & Armand Fernandes 24

Barbara & Paul J. Ferri Fidelity Foundation Kenneth T. & Mildred S. Gammons Charitable Foundation, Inc. Tally & John N. Garfield, Jr. Carolyn & Robert Macy Gelpke Vanessa & John Gralton George E. Grimshaw Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation Lucile P. & William C.S. Hicks The Howard Bayne Fund Jessie W. & Llewellyn* Howland III Bess Dawson Hughes & James Hughes Maryellen Sullivan Hughes Caroline & Lawrence Huntington Institute of Museum and Library Services Island Foundation, Inc. Joan K. & Irwin M. Jacobs Patricia A. Jayson Darlene L. & Gerald R. Jordan, Jr. Keith W. Kauppila David N. Kelley II Elizabeth T. & Morris W. Kellogg Cynthia K. & Peter R. Kellogg The Kresege Foundation Ladera Foundation Patricia P. Lawrence Albert E. Lees III Marguerite Lenfest Frances Levin The Henry Luce Foundation Ann & D. Lloyd Macdonald The Manton Foundation Leigh and Jean F. Mason III Massachusetts Cultural Council Massachusetts Department of Economic Development Massachusetts Historical Commission Holly & Joseph E. McDonough Katharine E. Merck Barbara & Howard Miller Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal Caroline K. & George B. Mock III Faith & Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar Diana & Hugh M. Morton National Endowment for the Humanities National Park Service New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park Nye Lubricants, Inc. Jane & Neil Pappalardo Celeste Penney Henry B. Plant Memorial Fund The Quarterdeck Foundation Edgenie H. & Donald S. Rice Cathy & Henry Roberts Anthony R. Sapienza Tricia & Chris Schade Tina & Paul Schmid

William E. Schrafft & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust Gilbert L. Shapiro Sue D. Siegal Sloan M. & Wick Simmons SouthCoast Community Foundation SouthCoast Community Foundation - Acushnet Foundation Fund SouthCoast Community Foundation - Henry H. Crapo Foundation Fund Sovereign - Santander Bank Dola Hamilton Stemberg The Robert F. Stoico / FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation Carol M. Taylor & John H. Deknatel Terra Foundation for American Art United States Department of Education U.S. Small Business Administration Kathleen K. Wattles Jennifer & R. Davis Webb Ann Webster The David P. Wheatland Charitable Trust Janet P. Whitla Karen E. & Bruce A. Wilburn Susan & Harvey Wolkoff The William M. Wood Foundation Grace & David A. Wyss

Gifts in Kind The New Bedford Whaling Museum is grateful to the following individual and corporate donors who made in-kind gifts that supported the Museum’s operations between January 1 and December 31, 2023.

Paulina R. & Henry M. Arruda Hillary & Jeffery Becton William Boffa Brahmin Leather Works Cisco Brewery Dale Coleman Marilyn L. Eckstine Encore Boston Harbor Farm & Coast Market Linda & Peter Fenton Desmond Fitzgerald Flora Home Garden Gables Inn Hancock Shaker Village Benjamin Harris Herman Melville’s Arrowhead Horizon Beverage Co. Kyler’s Catch Seafood Market Little Moss Restaurant

Donald G. Lucas Nancy Manley MASS MoCA Beatriz Oliveira Padanaram Outfitters Portugalia Marketplace Kim Redfield & Theodore M. Romanow The RISD Museum Salt on Elm SATA Internacional Airlines Scuttlebutt Padanaram Bonnie & Louis Silverstein Marnie Sinclair Michael Smith Robert B. Smith Catherine M. Stone Amanda & Peter C. Stone Sharon Toner Judith A. Tuttle Whaler’s Tavern Shelley Wheeler-Carreiro WJFD-FM Inc.

WAYS TO GIVE Every year, the New Bedford Whaling Museum relies on thousands of supporters to contribute 70% of our annual operating expenses.

Thank you for supporting the Museum’s unique exhibitions, education programs, research and community events!

To learn more, visit www.whalingmuseum.org/ join-give.

For information regarding gifts of appreciated stock, IRA charitable distributions, bequests or planned gifts, please contact Emily Mead, Director of Philanthropy: emead@whalingmuseum.org or (508) 997-0046, ext. 150 For assistance with individual or corporate memberships and sponsorships, please contact Traci Calabrese, Associate Director of Donor Relations: tcalabrese@ whalingmuseum.org or (508) 997-0046, ext. 156

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