Photo: National Museum in Prague
Some 135 years ago, on November 28, 1888, the 22-metre skeleton of a fin whale went on show in Prague, the first chance the city’s citizens had to experience such a sight.
In 1885 natural scientist Antonín Frič, the head of the zoological and paleontological collections of the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (today’s National Museum), was interested in buying the skeleton of a fin whale caught off the coast of Norway.
The institution didn’t have the financial wherewithal for such a purchase, so Frič and his brother raised the funds via a public collection.
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Author: Klára Stejskalová