National Art Pass offers available at Scottish Maritime Museum: Dumbarton

Free entry
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Free entry at Scottish Maritime Museum: Dumbarton

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Exhibition

All Mortal Greatness is but Disease

Scottish Maritime Museum: Dumbarton, Dumbarton
17 September 2023 - 11 February 2024
10am - 4pm Monday - Saturday

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Free entry

The Scottish Maritime Museum (Denny Tank) in Dumbarton delves deep into Scotland's forgotten history of industrial whaling in ‘All mortal greatness is but disease’.

The exhibition, whose title is taken from Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’, explores how industrial whaling pushed some species almost to extinction and, in the Antarctic alone, led to the killing of nearly 1.6 million whales between 1900-1960.

Though an audio installation, photographs, artworks, artefacts and textiles drawn from the Scottish Maritime Museum’s collection and on loan from the South Georgia Heritage Trust and the Scottish Fisheries Museum, the exhibition focuses on Scotland’s substantial but largely forgotten contribution to this industry and the Scots for whom whaling provided an unrivalled opportunity for prosperity and adventure.

The exhibition concludes with a look at whaling across the globe today.

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National Art Pass offers available at Scottish Maritime Museum: Dumbarton

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How to get there

Scottish Maritime Museum: Dumbarton

Scottish Maritime Museum, 12 Castle Terrace, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, G82 1QY
01389 763444

Opening times

Mon - Sat, 10am-4pm

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