1Hintze Hall

The great Romanesque entrance hall, with the blue whale skeleton overhead, the Darwin statue on the staircase and ten Wonder Bays of star specimens along the sides.

In This Area

Hope, the Blue Whale Skeleton

Skeleton of a whale stranded in 1891; suspended here in 2017

Hintze Hall, suspended from the ceiling

Statue of Charles Darwin

Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1885

Hintze Hall, landing of the main staircase

Mantellisaurus Skeleton

Early Cretaceous, about 125 million years ago

Hintze Hall, Wonder Bay on the ground floor

Giant Sequoia Trunk Section

Tree felled in 1891; about 1,300 years old

Hintze Hall, first floor at the top of the main staircase