This blue whale ... National Museum of Natural History. The American public in the early 20th century was in the grips of dinosaur-mania, when it was common practice for huge skeletons and fossils ...

Bickmore’s vision of establishing a natural history museum in New York City was realized in 1869 ... It takes three days to clean the museum’s blue whale model. The blue whale is the largest ...

four carved whale figures and 16 human skulls. Boas decided to acquire it for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was a curator. He was driven by a concept known as “sal ...