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some Turkish kettles, pre-Columbian artefacts, things from Skara Brae, thousands of
bikes and motorbikes, an old diving suit and a steam traction engine from 1907 being
cleaned up for display.
The most beautiful thing I saw was a fifteenth-century triptych belonging to the
National Gallery of Scotland being x-rayed before being sent to Los Angeles to be
displayed by the Getty Museum.
The blue whale’s skeleton wasn’t beautiful, but it was quite amazing. I certainly
didn’t expect to find the biggest animal on Earth in the archives of a museum. Now I
wish I could see a living, breathing blue whale, maybe one that is frolicking in a
storm.
