Scrimshaw - Scrimshaw Collections

Scrimshaw Collections

Most of the original scrimshaw created by whalers is currently held by museums. Museums with significant collections include:

• the Hull Maritime Museum in Kingston upon Hull, England;
• the Kendall Whaling Museum which is part of the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts;
• the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England
• the Scrimshaw Museum in Horta on the island of Faial in the Azores;
• the Nantucket Whaling Museum.

Other images of scrimshaw can be found at:

• the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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