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Slideshow: N.Y. Museum's Sleek New Big Blue

The 94-foot, 21,000-pound blue whale model in the American Museum of Natural History hasn't had an update since she was installed in 1969. On May 17, she'll make a splashy re-entry -- along with an ocean of cool technology. Michelle Delio reports from New York.
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A construction shot of the Hall of Ocean Life renovation that shows the lower level dioramas and the whale, which has been wrapped after the work was done on it, to protect it from the rest of the renovation.

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Part of the changes (shown in this artist's rendering) for the renovationed Hall of Ocean Life will be computer simulated lighting that mimics a shimmering underwater world.
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An artist's rendition of the new Hall of Ocean Life.
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A group of Museum visitors waves goodbye to the blue whale model before the hall closed for renovations in January 2002.