Create, Explore, and Collect
Create a watercolor keepsake at the Visitor Center, then explore New Bedford and collect anniversary stamps at participating sites through October 2027.
Create a watercolor keepsake at the Visitor Center, then explore New Bedford and collect anniversary stamps at participating sites through October 2027.
House of Gamboa, a boutique art gallery, retail shop, and event planning business, along with Luisa Edits, New Bedford’s newest downtown boutique, will host a dynamic community engagement experience with
The Waterfront Card Shop specializing in a wide variety of trading card games, sports cards, and collectible accessories in New Bedford, will host SAVE THE WHALES, featuring an interactive art
Students, families, and community members are invited to share their personal stories, traditions, and connections to New Bedford through recorded oral histories. These stories will become part of a
Salty Stitches is a textile-based protest art exhibition, embroidering Donald Trump’s words onto vintage fabrics, creating a material record of his presidency and of the movement against it. This exhibition
Rhonda M. Fazio believes food connects us to our cultural roots. Through The Art and Language of Food, she shares cooking and food preservation traditions inspired by the wisdom of grandmothers. Visit
See What’s Made in NB at the NBRR Lab! Doors are open from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, and you’re invited to explore our space in action. Tour the lab, watch
For November AHA The New Bedford Historical Society will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Johnson House and of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. Visitors to the park