A number of historically important whale skeletons and other marine specimens have returned to Hull Maritime Museum following an extensive and meticulous programme of cleaning and conservation.
These large specimens are among the first major items to be reinstalled as part of the museum’s multi-million-pound transformation. Led by renowned natural history conservator Nigel Larkin, the project has included the careful dismantling, cleaning, conservation and remounting of the specimens.
Several specimens will be dramatically suspended in the museum’s revitalized galleries, they include a minke whale, a killer whale, lesser rorqual, false killer whale, a bottle-nosed whale and the huge four-metre-long jawbones of a sperm whale. The 15-metre-long juvenile North Atlantic right whale is due to return early next year.
