Rights and Usage
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is committed to making our collections accessible and available to researchers, publishers, and the general public in support of scholarship, education, and personal enrichment. To use any text, image, audio, or video for commercial use, publication, broadcast, documentary, or for any purpose other than fair use as defined by law, you must request and receive prior written permission from the museum. High-resolution digital images can be requested by filling out the permission form.
Please Search our Online Collections Database and explore our collections, before you place an image request.
To request permission to use and/or make a reproduction of an item in the collection, you will need to:
- Please fill out the image request form here. Your form will be sent to the Rights and Reproductions Manager, who will respond to your request within a month. If you do not hear anything in a month, please email imagerequest@whalingmuseum.org
- If there are any associated costs, museum staff will notify you and, once payment is received, will deliver the reproduction and/or countersigned permission form.
- The Museum, though it owns the works in its collection, does not own the copyrights of all works. Permission to reproduce a work must be secured from the copyright holder as well as from the owner of the work. If the work you are requesting to reproduce is copyrighted, you must contact the administrator of the copyright.
Please note that processing reproduction requests can take anywhere from two weeks to two months. Custom requests will take longer, contingent on the volume and complexity of the order.
