[Unaffiliated] New Bedford Moby-Dick Marathon 2026

[This event is hosted by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in-person and live-streamed.]

Join us in celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Moby-Dick Marathon, the Museum’s world-renowned tribute to Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession, adventure, and the sea. Each January, readers and Melville enthusiasts from around the globe gather in New Bedford—the very port where Melville himself once set sail—to take part in a 25-hour, cover-to-cover reading of Moby-Dick.

• Saturday January 3, 11:25am EST - Extracts+start of the 25-Hour Marathon
• Sunday January 4, 1:00pm EST - marathon concludes

For further information, please visit:
https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/moby-dick-marathon-2026/