It's a Big Day in the Whale Hall

Beginning today and over the course of this week the scaffolding will be dismantled and taken down as the cleaning, repairing, conserving, restoring and stabilising of the whales in the first half of the whale hall is complete. This is an important day for everyone on the whale team as we have worked really hard over the last year on these huge skeletons and it marks the progress we have made on the project.
Scaffolding will now be set up around the whales occupying the second half of the hall - these are the smaller Minke whales and a Fin whale. In addition the tail of the Blue whale and the skull of the first Fin whale will be now be accessible from the new scaffolding.
As the scaffolding comes down today we can see the newly cleaned skeletons from the floor and it looks great. We are really pleased with the work so far and we can't wait to get started on the next skeletons.