"In 2020, the Natural History Museum in Dublin closed for renovations. They need a new roof but first they had to figure out what to do with the two enormous whale skeletons that have hung from the old roof since the 1890s...
Below, documentary filmmaker Paul Duane introduces his new RTÉ film, The Dead Zoo - watch it now via RTÉ Player.
I was on a rare break from the national lockdown, holidaying in County Kerry, when I got a call from my colleague Conor O'Carroll telling me that he’d been in the Natural History Museum in Dublin where they were trying to figure out how to take two historic whale skeletons down from the ceiling, where they’d been suspended since the late nineteenth century, in order to carry out some urgent repairs on their leaking roof."
