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Each year, the Museum’s blue whale model gets spruced up in an annual scrub down.
In the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life visitors at the Museum watched as members of the Exhibition department use long-handled brushes and vacuums to wipe away the dust from the 94-foot long, 21,000-pound model.
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