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See Neg. #2002-12180 for another view of the whale. Summary The blue whale can be seen on display in the "Life in the Sea" exhibit as part of the the Exhibits Modernization Program in the United ...
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The iconic blue whale at the Museum of Natural History is getting its annual cleaning. The entire 94-foot-long body of the whale gets dusted every nine months.
Beyond the iconic, show-stopping displays—the grizzly bear in the Hall of North American Mammals, the 94-feet long blue whale, the prehistoric Barosaurus skel ...
In 1963, the same year that blue whales gained some measure of international protection, Natural History's huge new proxy whale was finally installed where it is today, permanently arched in an ...
Entrance to the new "Life in the Sea" exhibit (in Hall 16) at the National Museum of Natural History. The hall is painted a dark blue to simulate underwater and features a life-sized model of a Blue ...
The American Museum of Natural History is debuting a new film about Blue Whales. Here's how you can watch the screening.
Perhaps his greatest creation (and indisputably his biggest) is the 10-ton, 94-foot model blue whale that still hangs at the American Museum of Natural History. Built for the museum’s 100th ...
This blue whale skull is one of the largest in any collection on earth. Chris Gunn By the turn of the 20th century, the United States National Museum—now the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries ...
The NC Museum of Natural Sciences' special exhibition on blue whales will open this weekend for the next six ... It's about 15 elephants to make a blue whale, ... Quiz yourself on Black history.
King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO–is one of the museum’s signature attractions. The blue whale was accidentally struck by a vessel in 1998 and brought to the museum two years later.
Both a research institution and a fabulous museum, The Natural History Museum opened in Alfred Waterhouse’s purpose-built Romanesque cathedral of nature on the Cromwell Road in 1881. Joined by ...