FOR many Singaporeans over the age of 40, memories of the old National Museum invariably linger over one particular exhibit: a blue whale skeleton that once loomed from the ceiling near the entrance.

It is, however, no longer in Singapore.

That 13m-long showpiece - the whale had beached in southern Malacca in 1892 - was given to Malaysia's Muzium Negara in 1972.

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