The Water Gallery is the next space within the Museum of Nature. Its centerpiece is the skeleton of a blue whale.
It is a large space that looks at the role of water on the planet (and beyond), and the organisms that call it home- both in sea water and freshwater. Hanging above here are narwhal sculptures.
You actually have to move this quartz, by moving the display case, but an air pocket half filled with water is visible, particularly when it's moving. That water is half a billion years old.
If you were to remove all of the salt in the oceans and spread it evenly over the continents, it would go 40 stories up.
A display shows some of the true giants of the ocean, with a model of a person for size comparison. The blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet.
The elusive colossal squid is the biggest invertebrate. It appears that the model of the person beside it is missing- I wonder if the museum knows.
The whale shark is the largest fish of the oceans.


















































