STUFFED, PICKLED AND PINNED
Chepstow Museum, Monmouthshire
Until July
On the last stop of its Welsh tour, this colourfully-named exhibition brings together over 50 natural scientific artefacts selected from collections in museums across Wales. The exhibit will be offering up all manner of creatures and treasures: a fossil seashell found at the summit of Snowdon, a rare auroch’s bone from the Severn estuary and even a mummified cat.
This exhibit has been a long time in the making, staff, volunteers and experts working together for over three years. The museum’s aim is to bring its educational display of plants, animals, minerals and insects to the public, all of which help scientists have a better understanding of the natural world and human impact upon it. Therefore the experience is both informative and entertaining, whilst also showing artefacts that have never been displayed in such a public setting before.
The exhibit has plenty of content aimed towards children, with attractions and activities for even the littlest ones too. Running from now until July and open from 11-4 daily, there are plenty of opportunities to catch this exhibit on its last showing in Wales.
Admission: free. Info: 01291 625981 / www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/chepstow-museum
words Bethan Goodwin