The Great Whales: Up Close and Personal exhibition will provide an in-depth look at the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, the sperm whale, and the largest animal ever to have existed on Earth—the blue whale.  

In 2014, nine blue whales were found dead in ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Whales get trapped in these waters sometimes, but never in such high numbers. In anticipation of the Great Whales exhibition, we look at how the blue whale skeleton came to the ROM under extraordinary circumstances.