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At the end of August, the Natural History Museum in Fribourg will begin an unusual operation: moving its emblematic whale skeleton into the institution’s new building. Measuring 11 metres long, weighing 1,650 kilograms and more than 170 years old, it will be the first object transferred to the new site.

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