Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun.

The Natural History Museum’s Whale Hall reopens on Saturday (7 July) after what museum PR describes as a ‘spring clean of mammoth proportions’. They can’t resist a pun either – the hall contains many mammalian models and skeletons, including that of a mammoth.

The 70 year old whale model is a staggering 27 m long, and hangs from the ceiling like something from a Douglas Adams novel. The gallery has been closed for over two months while cleaners removed 12 years of dust from the giant cetecean and its companions.

Image taken from LevitateMe’s Flickr photostream.