: Restored, expanded and recently reopened, the candleworks on this
little island that once provided illumination for the world is up
and running again - in a somewhat different capacity, however.
The Nantucket Historical Association's (NHA) Whaling Museum,
housed since 1930 in the original 1847 spermaceti candle factory
on the quaint and cobblestoned street in town center, reopened
for the summer of 2005 with augmented collections and exhibition
space.
As befits a historical association and museum in a town with a
history as storied as Nantucket's, the renovated museum is home
to a stunningly diverse array of art and artifacts related to the
island that Ralph Waldo Emerson once called the "Nation of
Nantucket."
