Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum

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Founded in 1942, the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum is the only museum in the New York City area to offer a year round focus on the region's long history of whaling. The museum holds about 6,000 documents and artifacts from Cold Spring Harbor and other Long Island whaling towns. Highlights of the collection include New York State’s only fully-equipped 19th century whaleboat with original gear and one of the most notable scrimshaw collections in the northeast. Additional objects include whaling implements, ship’s gear, navigational aids, ship models and maritime art. The library and archival collection contains 2,800 primary and secondary volumes and manuscript material from the Cold Spring whaling fleet, ship’s logs, journals and business correspondence of the Cold Spring Whaling Company, family documents dealing with maritime commerce on Long Island, records of the Long Island coastwise trade under sail and records from the Cold Spring Harbor Customs House (1798[1908). The museum hosts educational events and exhibitions year-round.