Thar she blows! Hull Maritime Museum resurfaces with a walk-in whale and a ‘monkey mermaid’

View image in fullscreen Exhibits ahoy … exterior of the revamped Hull Maritime Museum. Photograph: © Hull Maritime MuseumNonetheless, the sense of city out on a limb, and one that has seen better days, still persists. View image in fullscreen This Place Called Hull gallery at the refurbished Hull Maritime Museum. Now listed Grade II*, it was converted into the city’s Maritime Museum in 1975. Photograph: © Hull Maritime MuseumThroughout, the aim has been to carefully restore, repair and and revive, a strategy involving, at times, heroic feats of painstaking toil.