Gothenburg Museum of Natural History
Natural history museum famed for a nineteenth-century mounted blue whale and animal collections.
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This audio guide to the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History goes back to October 1865, when a whale calf stranded south of the city and the museum's self-taught director, August Wilhelm Malm, bought the carcass. It follows a curator who wanted measurements and photographs rather than a trophy, and the bold claim he staked on them. Best heard standing beside the whale itself.
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