List of Museums - sorted by Town |
Town | Specimen | Origin/Details | Source |
Basle Naturkundemuseum |
1 Skull | A. Kleinschmidt 1982, Museum Website |
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Berkeley University of California Museum of Paleontology |
A composite skeleton and various elements, in detail (with catalog number): UCMP 23001: Skull of adult with periotics, tympanics, mallei, incudes, and stapedes; and mandibles of another individual. UCMP 23031: Isolated left periotic (sectioned) and tympanic. UCMP 23050: Composite skeleton of adult, including disarticulated skull with periotics, tympanics, and right malleus; 2 left mandibles; cervical vertebrae 1, 3, 4, and 7; 19 thoracics; 2 lumbars; 2 sacrals; 14 caudals; 11 right and 8 left ribs; right and left scapulae, humeri, and radius-ulnae; right innominate. UCMP 67178: Isolated left periotic with tympanic, malleus, and incus, Isolated right periotic with tympanic, malleus, incus, and stapes. |
1904 donated by the Alaska Commercial Company, not on public display. History of origin of these specimen unknown. |
D. Domning (1978), Email communication |
Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology |
UCMVZ 107764: Skull of adult, and mandibles of another individual | D. Domning (1978), UCMP by Email |
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Braunschweig Naturkundemuseum |
Incomplete, composite, mounted 7.05 meter long skeleton (Photos), in detail: skull with periotic, 47 vertebrae, 29 ribs, right scapula, left and right humerus+radius+ulna, right pelvic bone (41 cm), several vertebrae and ribs incomplete and repaired/supplemented, the missing components are replica, no sternum. |
Skeleton excavated 1900 by Dr. Brasche and presented 1907 by Adolph Dattan. Mounted skeleton, half sized model and computer-animated film of swimming animals. |
A. Kleinschmidt (1951) |
Bremen Überseemuseum |
Skin Fragment, Cast of the Stockholm Skull. |
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Budapest Natural History Museum |
a skull. | Skull (Nr. HNHM 65.11.1.) and mandibel (Nr. HNHM 2004.9.1) from two individuals. (Mandibel of smaller specimen). 1957 donated by Museum St. Petersburg. |
C.J. Hazevoet, Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici |
Cambridge, Massachusets Museum of Comparative Zoology |
MCZ 59412: almost complete composite mounted skeleton, with many artificial bones, on exhibit |
aquired 1889, from Washington, and probably these are bones collected by Stejneger 1882/83. | S. Mattioli, Website |
Cambridge UK |
partial skeleton. | donated 1887 by USNM Washington | S. Mattioli |
Darmstadt Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Abteilung Zoologie. |
1 Skull. | HLMD-M-1251, bought 1894 from G. A. Frank, London for 1200,- Mark. | A. Kleinschmidt (1983), U. Wannhoff |
Dresden Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde |
Incomplete, composite, mounted skeleton (Photos), if complete ca 7 meter long, Catalogue No. B2076 in detail: 1 skull, 35 vertebrae (all vertebrae assumed to origin from one individual, presumably C6, T1 and 2/3 (ca 1.8 meter) of caudal vertebrae missing, processes partly broken/worn), 1 sternum, 1 scapula, left and right humerus, radius and ulna, 18 pairs of ribs. |
Skull bought 1891 from Otto Herz, Skeleton bought 1903 (unknown origin), confiscated 1945 and brought to Moscow, returned by USSR in 1982. Skeleton and life-size model exhibited in the 'Japanischer Palais'. |
Stefen (2003), Correspondence 1998. |
B18981-86: 5 ribs, B17192: os basiocipitale, B17193: 4 rib-fragments |
collected 1992-95 on Bering by U. Wannhoff | ||
an older inventory (abt. 1902) included additionally: constituent of B2076: 28 vertebrae, unknown origin, B4190: cast of interior of brain case, bought from R.F. Damon B4191: 3 ribs, presented by National Museum Washington |
These items lost before second world war. | ||
Edinburgh, Royal Museum |
Register NMSZ1956.57.1 Composite skeleton |
Found by Sinitsin on Copper Island. Acquired in 1897 by the D'Arcy Museum of University of Dundee,1956 transferred to Edinburgh. . |
S. Mattioli |
Ekaterinburg (Jekaterinburg, Swerdlowsk) Museum Ekaterinburg |
1 Rib | gift Of s.G.Kondrashina | webpage (left) |
Fairbanks, Alaska The University of Alaska Museum |
UAM Mamm 63998, Rib, Partially hand-worked and charred |
Collected before 2003 on Adak Island, no further details. | E-Mail S. MacDonald |
Frankfurt/M. Senckenbergmuseum |
Cast of the Braunschweig skull | ||
Fukui, Japan Fukui Dinosaur Museum |
Cast of the London Skeleton | ||
Göteborg (Gothenburg) Naturhistoriska Museum |
A mounted, almost complete (though composed of more than one specimen) skeleton | Collected 1879 by Nordenskjold during his famous Vega expedition (finding the Northeast Passage). A full scale model of a female seacow is also exposed. |
A. Kleinschmidt (1983), S. Mattioli |
Hamburg | Specimen destroyed during the war. | The sample of skin which A. Kleinschmidt assumed to be in the Hamburg Zoological Museum is presumably (Domning 1978) a misinterpreted whale skin. | A. Kleinschmidt (1982), Forsten & Youngman |
half scale model [?] | Göteborgs Naturh. Mus. Årstryck 2005 (PDF File) | ||
Hanover Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Naturkunde-Abteilung. |
1 Skull | not on public display, Origin Bering Island, bought 1904 from R. E. Hoffmann aus Grünberg for 600 Mark. |
Gehler, 2006 (in preparation) |
Helsinki Museum of Natural History |
5.30 meter long skeleton of a juvenile male (Photo). One of probably only two documented specimen, which had died of natural cause before the animal's discovery in 1741, and could be excavated intact. |
Collected 1861 by Hampus Furuhjelm, Governor of Russian-Alaska from 1859 to 1864.. | Museum Website, Domning (1978), Forsten & Youngman, M. Fortelius. |
Hildesheim
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum |
1 Skull | Since 1982 on loan in Braunschweig | U. Wannhoff, R & Z Museum by Email |
Irkutsk Museum Of Regional Studies |
48 bones from 4 individuals:
36 vertebrae, 2 upper parts of skull, 1 lower jaw, 1 left blade, 2 left humeral bones, 1 left forearm, 1 left ulna, 1 right forearm, 2 right humeral bones, 1 sternum. no ribs. |
Collected 1879 under Governor Grebnitzky. Presently the museum considers to compose an informative though very incomplete skeleton from the remains of those four very different individuals. Stejneger wrote 1883 that some items were destroyed in a fire (1879 the whole town of Irkutsk burned down). |
Museum's Regional Study Notes 2002 (Page 102) also D. Domning and E. Novomodniy |
Khabarovsk (Chabarowsk) Regional Lore Museum |
1 almost complete mounted skeleton with 53 cm long right pelvic bone (Photos), skull temporarily removed for repair, premaxilliae and several tail vertebrae missing.
Birula wrote 1928: Skeleton almost completely from one individual, only 4-5 vertebrae and 3-5 ribs from other animal(s). |
Two skeletons, found:
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E. Novomodniy |
Kharkiv (Charkow, Kharkow) Nature Museum |
a skeleton | collected 1879-82 by Dybowski, in 20th century from Lviv. Some bones found on Berind durcing the 70th were added. Kiev restorers created of the skeleton. | S. Mattioli, E. Novomodniy, Museum website (left), E. J. Tarapova |
Kiev, (Kyiv) Museum of Paleontology Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences |
one mounted skeleton | found 1879-82 by Dybowski, in 20th century from Lviv to Kiev. | E. Novomodniy, S. Mattioli |
Kiev, (Kyiv) Museum of Zoology, State University |
one skeleton and two complete skulls | found 1879-82 by Dybowski, in 20th century from Lviv to Kiev. | D. Domning, S. Mattioli |
Krakow (Crakow, Krakau) Museum of Zoology |
1 Skull | probably donated by Dybowski (?) | S. Mattioli |
London Natural History Museum |
ZD 1984.2092. A composite skeleton of at least 2 individuals, not known to be accurately dated. Second partial skeleton (no registration) and 2 skulls (C.1947.10.21.1). |
1882 acquired from importer Robert Damon, London. unknown origin |
E-Mail communication. S. Mattioli, Museum website |
Lund Zoologiska museet |
Incomplete composed skeleton: cranium with mandible, complete (?) vertebrae, 15 ribs, two scapulae, 2 humeri, one (left) radius/ulna. | Catalog entry 31.5.1882. Donated by Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, collected on Bering Island 14-18 August 1879 during the Vega Expedition. Assembled by Oskar Holmqvist. |
Museum paper "Faunaflora", A. Kleinschmidt (1983), Email communication |
Lviv (Lvov, Lwow, formerly Lemberg) Zoological Museum |
one almost complete, not composite, skeleton (of one animal). . | 1879-82 Dybowski brought from his visits to Commander Islands three (?) skeletons to Lviv, which are now in Kiev and Kharkiv. 1904 another skeleton was donated to Dybowski, which is still there. | U. Wannhoff, S. Mattioli, Email communication |
Lyon Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
A composite skeleton and various elements, in detail (with catalog number): 50002637: subcomplete composite skeleton. Length of the body, corresponding to the skull, estimated 697 cm: a skull, articulated with the mandible, 49 vertebrae : 6 cervicals, 19 dorsals (with the 7-8th partially fused), and 24 lumbar-sacral-caudal (but the last one is made of plaster), 19 pairs of ribs, with the 7-8th left partially fused, no sternum, scapula - humerus - radius and cubitus (unfused) right, scapula - humerus - radio-cubitus (partially fused) left, (left and right arms seems to be different in shape, size and fusion of epiphysis and may belong to 2 distinct specimens), right pelvis with broken proximal extremity. (the left one is a symetrical copy made of wood). 5000 2634: plaster cast of a skull and its mandible 5000 1007: skull and its mandible from Commander Islands, 1895. 50002635: skull from Commander Islands 50002636: mandible from Commander Islands (not articulated with the precedent skull, so belonging to another individu) |
Bought 1897 (through French Consul in San Francisco, de Lalande?), arrived in Museum 1898. The skeleton was exposed in the gallery of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon until 2004, and it is now conserved in the "Centre de Conservation de Lyon" with the 4 other specimens. |
H. Jousse, S. Mattioli |
Manchester, The Manchester Museum |
A.2313.9 ??
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one rib, A.451: replica of skull, (cervical?)-vertebrae, humerus, ulna, scapula, lower jaw (mandible), 16 bones in total. |
Identified by
McGhie, Mr Henry Andrew Date Identified 23/08/2002 |
Museum Website |
Monaco-Ville Oceanographic Museum |
Adult skull with periotics, complete mandible, right scapula & humerus, left radius-ulna, lumbar vertebra, rib | 15 Octobre 1910: unknown origin, donated by M. Nusbaum-Hilarowicz (Colleague of B. Dybowski), Inst. Zoologiczny Univ. Lviv | D. Domning |
Montreal Redpath Museum |
mandible, 2 humeri, 1 radius-ulna, 2 vertebrae | no data on collector or locality | D. Domning |
Moscow Zoological Museum |
1 mounted skeleton |
In the card catalog said to have been collected by N. B. Isakov in 1837. (Doubtful as Brandt had no skeleton in 1846) | D. Domning |
also 4 partial brain cases, 2 rostra, 3 complete mandibles, 6 hemimandibles, 2 squamosals, 1 thoratic vertebra, 2 scapulae, 3 radius-ulnae | Collected 1960-1974. At least some of these collected by Drs. O.L. Rossolimo and I. Dobrovo on Bering Island. |
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Moscow Paleontological Institute |
very fine large adult brain case with periotic, another skull and some bones | D. Domning | |
Moscow Biological Timiryazev Museum |
some H. gigas material | D. Domning | |
Moscow State Darwin Museum |
a rib | donated 1997 by A.Kovalev, an artist from Komandor Islands. | S. Mattioli |
Moscow Vernadsky State Geological Museum |
some bones,including a full mandible | Collected by Dr Kirillova around 1980 | S. Mattioli |
Munich | a skull, remaining skeleton destroyed 1943 during the war. |
A. Kleinschmidt (1982), S Mattioli. | |
New York | 1 Skull | S. Mattioli | |
Nikolskoje on Bering Island, Museum of Local Lore |
1 incomplete skeleton not mounted. Also at least 5 brain cases and 5 mandibles. |
dug out 1983, a photo of skeleton on this page. |
Museum Website (left) and D. Domning (according to Furusawa 1995) |
Numata-cho, Hokkaido Numata Fossil Laboratory |
2 premaxilllae (1 juvenile), 1 juvenile scapula, | Collected on Bering Is. by H. Furusawa (published by Furusawa in Fossils (Palaeont. Soc. Japan) No. 58: 1-9, 1995.) | D. Domning (according to Furusawa 1995) |
Odessa Zoological Museum |
1 Skull | S. Mattioli | |
Ottawa National Museum of Natural Sciences |
part of skull, sternum, 22 vertebrae, 5 ribs, 2 scapulae, humerus, ulna+radius. | Catalog card: collected 1891 by Grebnitzky. was formerly in Geological Survey of Canada Collection. |
D. Domning |
Paris Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle |
Two composite Skeletons:
1.) frontal cranial bone and the jaws, the first - wide, 2- thick, 3-7 - flat: vertebrae, 8-25 (18) vertebrae with ribs, 26-61 (36) vertebrae with the branches to the end of the tail. Only 61 vertebrae, furthermore: blade, arm, forearm (everything - dual), ?? brush (4 fingers + the fifth branch, the components fins - 2 such ...). ?? (Pfaffius 1902) |
composite specimen bought 1894 through French Consul in San Francisco, de Lalande. |
Museum Website, E. Novomodniy, S. Mattioli. |
2.) 1 Skull (6 bones) and mandible, 56 vertebrae, 36 ribs, L and R scapula, 2x "deux os de lasts" (l and r arms?). All in good state, except 5 ribs damaged: 1,8,11 right and 4 left in two pieces, 14 left in 3 pieces. (as per 1902 shipping documents) |
found 1897 or 98, bought 1903 from Pfaffius. | ||
Petropawlowsk -Kamtschatskij Museum of Kamchatka Local Lore |
a Skull and several bones. | E. Novomodniy | |
San Francisco | The California Academy of Sciences lost their specimen in earthquake and fire 1906. | Discovered in 1881-82, donated by the Alaska Commercial Company. | UCMP by Email |
St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Zoological Institute of Academy of Sciences |
1 almost complete skeleton (Inv.Nr: 3441), 6.86-m long; 60 vertebrae (7 cervicals, 19 thoracics, 3 lumbars, 1 sacral, 30 caudals of which 5 are artificial) also several bones: 13 skulls, 13 vertebrae, 3 ribs, 10 limb bones |
Found in 1855; sent by A. Gusev in
1856; gift of the Russian American
Company 1996 this specimen had been displayed in Halle. |
Exhibition Catalogue Halle 1996 ISBN 3-623-00300-X, S. Mattioli 2006 |
Also owns the only preserved (upper) masticating plates and a skin fragment. | The plate presumably sent by G.W. Steller to the Academy of Sciences with his treaty's manuscript, and discovered incidentally by the Director of the Zoological Museum J. F. Brandt about 90 years after, in the stores of the former Kunstkammer. the fragment of skin (probably in fact a whale skin fragment?), discovered in the Academy of Sciences by A. Brandt (son of J.F. Brandt ?). |
U. Wannhoff, S. Mattioli | |
Seattle Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. |
The Museum holds a subfossil rib of H. gigas, found at the Aleuts, see here | ||
Stockholm Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum |
1 incomplete skeleton. The specimen contains (-ed?) a supposed metacarpal, which D. Domning has meanwhile identified as an unfused left transverse process of a sacral vertebra, (Whitmore 1977, Domning 1978). |
Collected 1879 by Nordenskjold during the Vega-Expedition | A. Kleinschmidt (1951), S. Mattioli |
Stuttgart Rosensteinmuseum |
Replica of the Braunschweig skull(SMNS 31812), abt. 1,40 m model, in the Whale-Hall of Rosenstein Castle, also cast of the Braunschweig braincase (SMNS 31814). | ||
Sydney Australian Museum |
Partial Skeleton | Received by exchange from Sweden in the 19th century (see T. Flannery, Australian Natural History 22(10): 462, 1988) |
D. Domning |
Uppsala | Skeletal bones | Collected 1879 by Nordenskjold during the Vega-Expedition. | A. Kleinschmidt (1983), S. Mattioli |
Vienna (Wien) Naturhistorisches Museum |
A nearly complete composite skeleton with left 45 cm long pelvic bone (Photos). | 1897 donated by Professor Dybowski. | Museum Paper "Das Naturhistorische" Dec. 01, A. Kleinschmidt 1983, and Museum by eMail |
Warsaw | 1 skeleton, moved by Russians to unknown destination. one skull destroyed during World war 2. |
both donated by B. Dybowski | S. Mattioli, E. Novomodniy |
Washington DC. Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History |
An almost complete composite skeleton, from 12-16 individuals. Catalogue USNM 21966, 6.43 m long incl. sternum (Scheffer 1972) |
The bones were salvaged on the beaches of the Bering Island in 1883, and donated by D.L Stejneger. Skeleton prepared 1885/6 by Frederick A Lucas, with assistance of J.W. Scollick. Kleinschmidt mentions 1951, that the Washington specimen had been collected complete by Stejneger. However their specimen is definitely composite. |
Museum by Email |
über 150 Einzelknochen | S. Mattioli | ||
USNM218376 os occipitis and 1st and 7th left rib | red-ocher color like the Amchitka specimen, probably pleistocene | F.C. Whitmore (1977) | |
The Museum also holds several fossils/subfossils of H. gigas, found at the Aleuts and California, see here | Domning (1978) | ||
Wladiwostok Oceanarium (TINRO-Center). |
live size model and skull | E. Novomodniy | |
Wladiwostok Primorsky Museum of Local Lore |
1 skull | E. Novomodniy | |
Wladiwostok Zoological Museum of the Far Eastern State University |
The occipital bone, two vertebrae and a rib | Collected in 1987 - 1990 | E. Novomodniy |