Hintze Hall

The Natural History Museum in London is one of the world's largest natural history museums. A stunning 25.2-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling takes centre stage in the entrance hall (Hintze Hall), giving visitors the opportunity to walk underneath the largest creature ever to have lived. The whale was stranded in Wexford Harbour in Ireland in 1891. The Natural History Museum has named the female blue whale Hope, as a symbol of humanity's power to shape a sustainable future. Blue whales were hunted to the brink of extinction in the twentieth century, but were also one of the first species that humans decided to save on a global scale. Hope is a reminder of humanity's responsibility to protect our planet.