Back in 2017, London's Natural History Museum was in the headlines for replacing the popular dinosaur skeleton at the entrance to the museum with a skeleton of a blue whale named "Hope". The skeleton is suspended from the ceiling and is over 25 meters long. The showcase brings the museum into the modern world with celebrating the natural world and the oceans. The blue whale was at risk of being extinct due to hunting, and numbers of the creature are increasing. The skeleton of this whale came from Ireland in 1891; it was stranded in a harbour.
Hope replaced "Dippy" the Diplodocus dinosaur, which was on display since 1979 and removed in January of 2017. The dinosaur has since been touring different cities in the United Kingdom. I saw Dippy the Dinosaur in Norwich in 2021 when it toured different cities, and this coincided with a sculpture trail of dinosaurs held across the city.
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