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The Mystic Seaport Museum has generously provided 4 tickets per member to preview the Monstours exhibition on July 15th. 

Step into the world of 19th-century American whaling with Monstrous: Whaling and Its Colossal Impact, a powerful new exhibition that explores the sheer scale—physical, economic, and human—of the nation’s whaling industry and its legacy. 

Explore hundreds of striking artifacts from the Museum’s renowned whaling collections—tools, old photographs, ship models, documents, and more—most of which have never been exhibited together before. Hefty iron trypots, harpoons, darting guns, and blubber hooks tell the story of the extraordinary lengths commercial whalers went to harvest oil-rich blubber and spermaceti. These items speak to the staggering risks and resource demands of an industry that lit America’s lamps and greased its machines for over a century. 

 Click here for more information on the exhibition.