Vanderbilt collected fish and other marine life, birds, invertebrates and cultural artifacts for the personal museum he planned to build on his Long Island estate, calling it the Hall of Fishes ...

Vanderbilt II, a sailor ... turned Eagle’s Nest into a unique hybrid of home and museum. In the 1920s, he opened the Hall of Fishes to the public—highlighted by a 32-foot taxidermied whale ...

Vanderbilt II's estate ... in what is now called the Hall of Fishes. Avid collector From the get-go, Vanderbilt declared his intent to turn his home into a museum, which allowed him to import ...

The show, “Related Searches,” also kicks off the museum’s new ... It initially housed Vanderbilt’s personal aquatic collection in his own “Hall of Fishes,” which he opened to the ...

Longtime Maryland breeder Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and John Hay Whitney have been elected posthumously to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame as Pillars of the Turf. Vanderbilt and ...