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Nantucket / Estados Unidos

Nantucket es una isla ubicada a unos 50 km al sur de Cape Cod, Massachusetts, en los Estados Unidos. Junto con las islas de Tuckernuck y Muskeget, forman el poblado de Nantucket, Massachusetts y el condado de Nantucket. Una parte del poblado es denominado como Nantucket CDP, . La región de Surfside en Nantucket es el poblado más austral de Massachusetts. Siasconset, comúnmente llamado "Sconset". Nantucket es un destino turístico y una colonia de veraneo. La población de la isla llega hasta unos 50.000 habitantes durante los meses de verano, a causa de la gran cantidad de veraneantes. Según la revista Forbes, en el 2006, las propiedades de Nantucket poseían el mayor promedio en su valoración comparado con el resto de los poblados de Massachusetts.[cita requerida]

Nantucket Whaling Museum

Nantucket / Estados Unidos

The Nantucket Whaling Museum is a museum located in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It is run by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Whaling Museum is the flagship site of the Nantucket Historical Association’s fleet of properties. Restored in 2005, the Nantucket Whaling Museum incorporates a new, expanded exhibit and program space that connects the 1847 Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory and the 1971 Peter Foulger Museum. The new structure includes the Gosnell Hall Whale Hunt Gallery, where a forty-six-foot-long sperm whale skeleton is suspended from the ceiling. The Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory, featuring the massive lever press, is interpreted as an industrial site where the complicated process of refining oil and making spermaceti candles is explained along with the other Nantucket industries that arose from the whaling era. Eleven galleries and exhibit spaces featuring thousands of artifacts and art pertaining to Nantucket life, art, and ideas are on display. In 2008, the Whaling Museum received accreditation from the American Association of Museums, an honor bestowed upon fewer than one of every twenty-two museums in the country. The museum was reaccredited in 2017. .