If a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you quantify the experience of holding a whale skull?
Students in Jason Colby’s class, “From oil to icons: the history of people and whales,” had some heft added to their learning recently at the Royal BC Museum (RBCM).
Museum curator Gavin Hanke treated undergraduate and graduate students in Colby’s course to an exclusive tour of the fourth floor, where some of the museum’s whale specimens are stored.
The RBCM houses 22 specimens of orcas, also known as killer whales—the largest collection on the Pacific coast—as well as porpoises, belugas and dolphins.
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