Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum ... Staff stand in front of a blue ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

Bickmore’s vision of establishing a natural history museum in New York City ... It takes three days to clean the museum’s blue whale model. The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live ...

The Natural History Museum’s free youth climate programme ... to parasitic worms to whale earwax. All of this will combine to tell the story of humanity’s fragile relationship with the natural ...

DESCRIPTION: Robust and stocky with a gigantic mouth, the North Atlantic right whale is easily identifiable through its black coloration, lack of a dorsal fin, arched jaw that begins above the eye, ...

15—The 47-foot fin whale that ... winter as well. The museum has never had anything like a whale, Grogan said. But he hopes it will become the beginning of a natural history exhibition that ...

The Otis Booth Pavilion now welcomes visitors into the museum from the north with a six-story light-filled glass entrance, featuring a stunning, 63-foot-long fin ... at the Natural History Museum ...

Originally known as “whale killer,” the orca's common name stems from early whalers' records of ... They have large, rounded pectoral fins and a unique, variable gray or white “saddle patch” behind ...

The American Museum of Natural History is perpetually crowded, but you'll face fewer crowds if you visit during a weekday in the late winter or spring. The American Museum of Natural History off ...

this museum educates visitors on billions of years of natural history. Highlights include the display on the Jurassic era that features life-size replicas of dinosaur skeletons, and "The Hall of ...