 The atmosphere gives the objects on display a warm glow. There's musical instruments, there's clocks, there's miniature dressers, there's jewelry boxes, and it just goes on and on and on and on. Chief Curator Naomi Slip says the museum's founders began collecting Scrimshaw from locals in 1903, not long after petroleum and electricity replaced whale oil as America's main sources of artificial light. Slip says Scrimshaw wasn't considered fine art back then,