# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Grand Panorama Advancement (Seasonal Saturday)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm – Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 02:45 pm
- **Event Description**: February 14  | 2:30 - 2:45p
Included with Seasonal Saturday general admission
No registration is required. 

At 1275 feet, the "Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World" is the longest painting in the United States. Due to its immense size, only 40 feet of this epic painting can be viewed at one time. Join us as MMAM curators, staff and volunteers advance the last 40 feet of the panorama. These behind-the-scenes viewings of the panorama in motion are open to the public.

About the Exhibition: 

In 1848, New Bedford artists Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington announced to the world they had completed their Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World. Russell was an emerging artist and bankrupt whaling investor who had just spent 42 months (1841-1844) on a whaling voyage to the Indian Ocean and North Pacific aboard the ship Kutusoff. When he returned, Purrington joined him in creating this massive painting as a commercial enterprise for public entertainment. Performed as a moving panorama, this 1,275-foot long and 8-foot high painting was separated onto four alternating spools, which were mounted in a theater or public hall for a paid performance. It toured the East, transported by train, ship, and wagon to Boston, New York and as far West as St. Louis.

In an era before the age of cinema, the Panorama is a rare extant example of commercial enterprise, designed to exploit the panorama craze of the 19th century with tales of the high seas. This era’s popular entertainment was dominated by illusion and spectacle, the exotic and the unknown. This was the age of the traveling circus, public theater, pantomimes, the height of popularity of the curiosities sideshow, and the birth of grand World’s Fairs.

The Panorama, which is owned and preserved by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, depicts in fascinating detail the voyage of a typical mid-19th century New Bedford whaleship on its journey ‘round the world’ in pursuit of whales. Along the way, it depicts scenes (some from Russell’s experience, some historic, and some imagined) in such far-flung places as the Azores, Cape Verde, Brazil, Tahiti, and Hawaii. People, places, vessels, wildlife, and events spring to life as they were seen from a 19th-century perspective.

https://mmam.org/a-spectacle-in-motion
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/winona/grand-panorama-advancement-seasonal-saturday/200029270420418
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, exhibitions, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029270420418?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=winona-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Winona
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 800 Riverview Dr, Winona, MN, United States, Minnesota 55987
- **lat**: 44.05718
- **long**: -91.64339
- **full address**: 800 Riverview Dr, Winona, MN, United States, Minnesota 55987

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Minnesota Marine Art Museum (https://allevents.in/org/minnesota-marine-art-museum/8001334)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 800 Riverview Dr, Winona, MN, United States, Minnesota 55987
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Minnesota Marine Art Museum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, fine-arts, exhibitions, theatre
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Grand Panorama Advancement (Seasonal Saturday) ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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