Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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How do you preserve a giant squid? When the Museum got the call from the Falkland Islands that a giant squid was on the way our curators had to come up with some innovative solution to get it on display. Jon Ablett and Ollie Crimmen talk us through the process, and how Damien Hirst got involved.

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