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English: Photo taken on January 21st, 2020 in "the Whale Hall" (in Norwegian: Hvalhallen) of the Slottsfjellsmuseet, a local history museum in Tønsberg, Norway.

The exhibition in the hall (build 1939) shows old skeletons of whales (hvalskjeletter), specimens of whale fetuses (fostre av hval), etc. connected to the city's whaling history. The skeletons are from a fin whale (finnhval, Balaenoptera physalus) from 1895, a record 27-metre-long blue whale (blåhval, Balaenoptera musculus) from Iceland 1901, a mink whale (vågehval), a sperm whale (spermasetthval, spermhval, Rhyseter macrocephalus) from 1896, a bottlenose whale (nebbhval, Hyperoodon ampullatus), a killer whale (spekkhogger, Orcinus orca), a right whale (nordkaper, Eubalaena glacialis), etc.

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