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 ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest in ... a marine mammal specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The American public in the early 20th century was in the ...

That is why the huge creature that now awes visitors in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History-the second blue whale to be displayed there in this century-is not a stuffed whale.

Bacchus, his girlfriend Ariadne, Fighting Temeraire and a few sunflowers seek roommate for one night only. No smokers or pets ...

On Washington's National Mall, in a vast neoclassical palace next to the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ... of a 135-tonne blue whale, an astonishing ...