The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

conservators and other Museum staff. It took more than three years to prepare the blue whale for display in Hintze Hall. In that time, our experts unearthed dozens of stories about its history. The ...

At the Natural ... the British Museum, are particularly obscure. There doesn't seem to be much contemporary knowledge about that, so I was determined to find out more-these [blue whale] vertebrae ...

MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc ... us that the specimen (Washington Museum) was an adult male, 75 feet long, captured ...