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Selling a whaling museum
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2026 Jul 25, 18:16 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2026 Jul 25, 18:16 -0700
How do you market a whaling museum? --A museum dedicated to the history of an industry that once thrived by slaughtering glorious animals. It's tricky, right?
Here's how you do it:
CBS Evening News: New Bedford Whaling Museum Marketing
And note: the last time I visited there (a decade ago), this was the sort of place where you could find a 19th-century whaleship logbook --on public display-- showing longitude by lunars. What?? Lunars aren't enough to bring in the crowds?!
Frank Reed
