For more than four decades, the skull and model entertained visitors who came to marvel at a whale of such size ... called “Life in the Sea,” Smithsonian curators took down the old blue ...

The Smithsonian's first life-size museum whale ... Friello remembers that the blowhole and other parts of the blue whale model had to be recast again and again. Kellogg often explained that ...

The whale was stranded in Wexford Harbour in Ireland in 1891, ten years after the Museum opened. It was bought by the Museum and first went on display in the Mammal Hall in 1938, where it was ...