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 ...

Don’t try to navigate the American Museum of Natural History without a game plan. It’s huge and one of New York’s most popular attractions for families. I’ve visited as a child and taken my kids many ...

MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc ...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 ...