This rendering of a view looking east down William Street shows the crosswalk planned between the New Bedford Whaling Museum expansion on the left, and the existing building on the right. The $32 million project will expand the museum’s indoor space by two-thirds. Credit: Courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
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Demolition of the old Hiller Printing building is set for this spring, officially kicking off the expansion of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Columnist Jack Spillane was joined on The Light’s latest Chat by an enthusiastic group discussing the $32-million expansion, including New Bedford Whaling Museum CEO Amanda McMullen, building designer Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer and architect Austin Ward, plus the city’s director of tourism, Ashley Payne.

With a second-floor exhibition space of 6,000 square feet in a single room, the new building will allow the city’s pre-eminent museum to bring traveling national exhibitions to the city and give it a new front door and community room.

Watch the full Chat here.

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4 replies on “Whaling Museum team excited to start expansion”

  1. FANTASTIC, this type of coverage is very good to have. Please keep us all up to date with drawings and renderings, this sounds exciting. As with all city matters, will parking be any better for the elderly??

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