American Museum of Natural History
Natural history museum with dinosaur halls, a suspended blue whale, gem vaults, and a planetarium.
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This guide to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City centers on the blue whale suspended overhead in the Hall of Ocean Life, a model that opened to record crowds in February 1969. It traces how the museum built the sculpture from little more than old photographs of a whale carcass found off South America in 1925, with no living animal to measure and no skeleton to cast, aiming to outdo the papier-mache model it replaced. Best taken in from a bench across the hall, looking straight up.
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