Even The Natural History Museum Whale Needs A Bath

Okay, so maybe it was really a vacuuming that the American Museum of Natural History Museum's Blue Whale received. But now you know that's how the 90-foot fiberglass model, which hangs in the Hall of Ocean Life, is cleaned: An industrial sized vacuum, a scaffold, and the attention of Rodolfo Valencia. Valencia gave the whale its last cleaning two years ago—a lot of dust has piled up since then! The AMNH told the Post, "It's his baby. He's very gentle with it. He's got this all mapped out. He probably knows every inch of that whale."

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on June 18, 2009 4:08 PM

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kapusta

...vacuuming the whale?...isn't that a euphemism for masturbation?

Jen Chung

I thought that was waxing the whale.

jibbly

Isn't most dust human skin that's been shed? If so, ewww.

r1b2

Truly newsworthy.

Snoopy

"whole" not "hole". Sorry for the typo.

Snoopy

Now save the whale campaign is a hole different thing. They don't poop on our parks, play grounds and gold courses like some other animals out there.

Drew

Cleaning the planetarium sphere at the other end of the Museum is even better--it's a robotic vacuum that moves on a grid of rails in the ceiling and descends down to the top of the sphere.