Photo via klingon65's flickr
Today the NY Times answers a question that no one was really asking: How is that giant whale not constantly crashing to the floor of the American Museum of Natural History? Some sort of attachment, perhaps? To the facts!:
Installing whale model, Hall of Ocean Life, 1968 (Rota, Alex J./AMNH Digital Special Collections)
And that's where the "steel bars connect to trusses in the room... That allows the load, the weight of the whale, to be transferred to all that other steel." These photos (newly released from the Museum's vault) show the installation in progress, and how it all looks today. And that's how you ruin the magic of the floating whale.
Installing whale model, Hall of Ocean Life, 1968 (Rota, Alex J./AMNH Digital Special Collections)
Link:
Why Hasn't That AMNH Whale Ever Fallen From The Ceiling?
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