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Three years and $60 million later, the renovated museum keeps its oddest exhibit at the center.
The Harborview Maritime Museum reopens on Saturday after a three-year renovation, with a new central hall built around the 52-foot fin whale skeleton that has hung in the building since 1931.
Curators say visitors begged them not to move it.
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