Monday, August 26, 2013
26 August 1988 - Whale Day
Today we went to the Naturhistoriska Museum in Goteborg. Some of my ancestors came from here. We visited the museum with my cousin Phyllis as our shared grandfather was one of the people who helped to tan the blue whale that is on display at the museum. When my grandfather visited Sweden as a child, he remembers having tea inside the whale. Some background on the whale can be found here.
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Visiting the whale was very important to me as I had heard about it many times when I was a child. My Father was proud of the family connection to the whale which was that his Grandfather (my great grandfather) had been one of three men who tanned the whale. That was my Grandmother Valborg Anderson's Father, Johannes. We got information about the museum and the whale at the gift shop but it is all in Swedish. It was Phyllis' father, cousin Frank, who old me that he remembered having tea in the whale. On certain days the jaw of the whale was dropped and a bench put inside for people to sit on while having tea. The whale was a beached baby beluga. Gothenburg is a sea port.
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