London Natural History Museum's blue whale skeleton

The blue whale skeleton at the London Natural History Museum has finally been moved from the museum's whale hall, where she hung for decades gathering dust.  The skeleton has been cleaned up, disarticulated, restored, moved and re-articulated in a dramatic downward lunge-feeding posture after years of planning.  Mike went over to London last Spring and again in the winter to help the articulator team with planning the design of the exhibit and then to work with George on the fabrication of the armature that supports the skeleton's massive skull and lower jawbones.  She's now impressively mounted with an elegant internal and external steel armature and suspended from stainless cables from the ceiling of Hintze Hall, the museum's main entrance area.