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Virtual Grand Opening: Bowhead Whale

sidebar menu toggle button Virtual Grand Opening: Bowhead Whale

Date: June 7, 2021

Time: 12:00

Location: UA Museum of the North YouTube channel

Rendering of a whale skeleton hanging in the museum lobby, with several people looking at it.This spring, the museum is articulating and suspending a 42-foot bowhead whale skeleton from the lobby’s ceiling. 

Join us on June 7 for a Virtual Grand Opening! Hear from project leaders and learn more about the challenges they overcame to prepare and suspend a 1,830-pound whale skeleton from the museum ceiling. Celebrate the project completion with UAMN and partners.

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Schedule: 
12-12:07pm          Bowhead Launch Video & Ribbon Cutting
12:07-12:55pm  Conversation with the Mammalogists (pre-recorded)

The exhibition of the Bowhead Whale skeleton is made possible by the Bill Stroecker Foundation.

                            Construction equipment in the museum lobby.                                  Person looking at whale vertebrae mounted on a metal rod.

Top Right: UAF rendition of the bowhead whale project, view 3.  Bottom of page: UAMN photos by Roger Topp.