The art of preserving a blue marlin | Natural History Museum

The blue marlin is one of the Museum's largest-ever specimens preserved whole in fluid - and an innovative technique will make this enormous fish last. Watch curators prepare the blue marlin for display.

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00:00 Introduction to Hintze Hall
00:29 How the Museum acquired the blue marlin specimen
01:11 How the blue marlin was preserved
01:25 How the 4-metre blue marlin was moved into Hintze Hall
02:31 The big reveal

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