Nigel Larkin, a specialist conservator of natural history specimens, has been undertaking vital work on seven of our whale skeletons and a tuna fish skeleton, all from Hull’s maritime collection.
These historically important specimens, all between three and 15 metres long, are old, complex and fragile.
At his conservation facility in Shropshire, Nigel has been cleaning and conserving all the bones, and has completely remounted all the skeletons so that they are more anatomically correct and more secure.
The specimens will return home to the newly refurbished Hull Maritime Museum during the summer.
