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1 - Whale Hall: Mounting of the blue whale exhibition
2 - Whale Hall: empty
3 - Whale Hall: Exhibit of Blue Whale
4 - Whale Hall: Jubilee celebration
5 - Whale Hall: Jubilee celebration
6 - Whale Hall: with Percy Stammwitz
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8 - Whale Hall: David Macer-Wright painting pilot whale exhibit
9 - Whale Hall: Showing the construction of the blue whale model
10 - Whale Hall: Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale plaster cast
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1 - Whale Hall: General views of balcony displays
2 - Whale Hall: Side and frontal views of whales
3 - Whale Hall: Front Left view of whales
4 - Whale Hall: Small cabinet displaying a porpoise and a shark
5 - Whale Hall: Narwhal
6 - Whale Hall: Bottle nosed dolphin
7 - Whale Hall: Bottle nosed dolphin
8 - Whale Hall: Two bottle nosed dolphins
9 - Whale Hall: Killer Whale
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11 - Whale Hall: Two killer whales
12 - Whale Hall: Three slender beaked dolphins
13 - Whale Hall: Whale jaw bones
14 - Whale Hall: Lower jaw bone of a sperm whale
15 - Whale Hall: Six killer whales
16 - Whale Hall: Skeleton of a Porpoise
17 - Whale Hall: Small black whale
18 - Whale Hall: Small white whale
19 - Whale Hall: Historic whaling photographs
20 - Whale Hall: Headless skeleton of Dolphin
21 - Whale Hall: Three Long-finned pilot whales
22 - Whale Hall: Young killer whale
23 - Whale Hall: Open mouthed killer whale
24 - Whale Hall: Killer whale skull
25 - Whale Hall: Unfinished sealion/seal
26 - Whale Hall: Three jars of krill (Food of whalebone whales in Arctic)
27 - Whale Hall: Bottle-nosed whale
28 - Whale Hall: Skeleton of a young whale
29 - Whale Hall: Whale skull
30 - Whale Hall: Ambergris
31 - Whale Hall: Small whale skeleton
32 - Whale Hall: Five whales of different types
33 - Whale Hall: Five Dolphins of different types
34 - Whale Hall: Scapula and vertebrae of a blue whale
35 - Whale Hall: Two Narwhal Skulls (Single and double horned)
36 - Whale Hall: Whalebone Gallery Showcase
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38 - Whale Hall: Skeleton of head, upper vertebrae and ribs with diagram of brain
39 - Whale Hall: Common Dolphin
40 - Whale Hall: Finless Black Porpoise
41 - Whale Hall: Graffman's dolphin and bottle-nose dolphin
42 - Whale Hall: Peale's dolphin
43 - Whale Hall: Plumbeous dolphin
44 - Whale Hall: Front right-hand view of blue whale skeleton
45 - Whale Hall: Front underside view of blue whale skeleton
46 - Whale Hall: Upper frontal view of blue whale model
47 - Whale Hall: Front left-hand view of blue whale skeleton
48 - Whale Hall: A Locomotion in cetacea showcase
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Expand 50 - Whale Hall: Development of cetaceans gallery showcase50 - Whale Hall: Development of cetaceans gallery showcase
51 - Whale Hall: Cetacean Fossils' gallery showcase
52 - Whale Hall: Beaked whales' gallery showcase
53 - Whale Hall: Baleen whales and bottle-nosed whales' gallery showcase
54 - Whale Hall: Cetacean teeth gallery showcase
55 - Whale Hall: Front right-hand view of whale skeleton
56 - Whale Hall: Whalebone whale skeleton humpback whale
57 - Whale Hall: Gallery showcase displaying flippers of whales
58 - Whale Hall: Longitudinal section of porpoise head and complete body whale
59 - Whale Hall: Physiology of cetacea whale
60 - Whale Hall: Five models of whales of different types
61 - Whale Hall: Food sources of whales
12 - Whale Hall: Exhibits in Whale Hall
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14 - Whale Hall: general photograph
15 - Whale Hall: general photograph
16 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
17 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
18 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
19 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
20 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
21 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
22 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
23 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
24 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
25 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
26 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
27 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
28 - Whale Hall: Cleaning and hoisting up the whale skeletons
29 - Whale Hall: during refurbishment
30 - Whale Hall: showing display cases and exhibits
31 - Whale hall: Whale skeleton above Blue Whale model, fin
32 - Whale Hall: general view
33 - Whale Hall: View of whale skeleton, baleen
34 - Whale Hall: display on cetacean hearing
35 - Whale Hall: display on cetacean hearing
36 - Whale Hall: blue whale with group of child visitors
37 - Whale Hall: display on baleen or whalebone
38 - Whale Hall: display on baleen or whalebone
39 - Whale Hall: display on the modification of the skeleton in marine mammals
40 - Whale Hall: display on the modification of the skeleton in marine mammals
41 - Whale Hall: display on skin, sense organs, nervous system and locomotion
42 - Whale Hall: display on locomotion, excretion, reproduction and respiration
43 - Whale Hall: display on the porpoise, with dissected specimens and drawings
44 - Whale Hall: display on teeth and baleen
45 - Whale Hall: display on cetacean teeth, featuring cetacean skulls
46 - Whale Hall: display on fossil cetaceans
47 - Whale Hall: display on cetacean skulls, earbones, etc
48 - Whale Hall: display of cetacean skulls
49 - Whale Hall: display of cetacean skulls
50 - Whale Hall: display on ocean movements, plankton, etc
51 - Whale Hall: display on whale migrations
52 - Whale Hall: display on locomotion in cetacea
53 - Whale Hall: display on locomotion in cetacea
54 - Whale Hall: display on development of cetaceans
55 - Whale Hall: model of head of sperm whale by John Coppinger, cross-section to show anatomy
56 - Whale Hall: model of head of sperm whale by John Coppinger, showing external skin with a small cut-out section
57 - Whale Hall: model of head of sperm whale by John Coppinger, cross-section to show anatomy
58 - Whale Hall: model of head of sperm whale by John Coppinger, showing external skin with three cut-out sections
59 - Whale Hall: before and during refurbishment
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George Robert Milne Murray Papers
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Museum at War
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Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act – the campaign to end the plumage trade
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Geological Museum: Moon rock display
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