Collecting marine mammals

Resource type

Blog post

Creator (person)

Hantke, Georg

Date published

February 19, 2021

Abstract

Our natural sciences collection includes an internationally significant collection of marine mammals. In this post, Curatorial Preparator Georg Hantke explores how that collection continues to grow and how it informs new understanding of the whales, dolphins and porpoises found around the coasts of Scotland.

Organisational unit

Natural Sciences

Publisher

National Museums Scotland

Place of publication

Edinburgh

Official URL

https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2021/02/19/collecting-marine-mammals/

Related exhibition

Exhibition	Place	Start date	End date
Scotland’s Precious Seas	National Museum of Scotland

Related URL

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/collections-departments/natural-sciences-department/news/truesly-amazing-whale-discovery/

https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/things-to-see-and-do/past-exhibitions/scotland-s-precious-seas/

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/collections-departments/natural-sciences/vertebrate-biology/

https://blog.nms.ac.uk/search/hantke

Rights statement

In Copyright

Licence

CC BY 4.0

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Additional information

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