NEW BEDFORD FISHING HERITAGE CENTER INC
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Mission Statement
Presenting the story of New Bedford's fishing community to the world
About This Cause
Located in the nation’s most valuable fishing port, New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center opened to the public in 2016. Its mission is “Presenting the story of New Bedford’s fishing community to the world.” The Center maintains an archive of community history, produces exhibits, and has a robust slate of programs including film screenings, talks, tours, performances, and demonstrations, as well as school programs and a summer camp. Center staff have completed several major oral history projects including interviews with 58 shoreside workers as part of an Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and an NEH funded project focused on documenting the history of unions and labor on the New Bedford waterfront. Products produced include the Center’s main exhibit “More Than a Job” with more than sixty audio clips as well as more than a dozen gallery and digital exhibits including “Women’s Work” and “Stories of Immigration;” and an original film called “Finest Kind.” Most recently the Center launched “Herstory,” an intergenerational oral history project pairing local students with older women who have ties to the fishing community and "Casting a Wider Net" collecting and sharing stories of the waterfront from the Cape Verdean, Central American, Puerto Rican, and Vietnamese communities.