Whaling Museum
Rua do Poço, São Roque do Pico 9940-361 - Portugal
Phone: +351 292 642 096 - Fax: +351 292 679 020
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Housed in the former boathouse known as the Antiga Casa dos Botes, the Museu dos Baleeiros contains an important collection of scrimshaw and other pieces made from bones and ivory, as well as the main artefacts of the whaling industry, which can also be seen at the Museu da Indústria Baleeira, in São Roque. In this museum a spectacular collection of cauldrons, ovens, machines and other tools used in the profit of the cetaceous in oil and dough can be seen. Whaling was one of the main activities of the archipelago of the Azores.
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