The Wild Escape for Earth Day

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Join us as we celebrate Earth Day with FREE fun and educational family activities. This includes led workshops where you will have the chance to meet a taxidermist, or become a bone detective by investigating owl pellets.

Please book any of the workshops early to avoid disappointment. Please book one ticket per child

Dead Zoo 10.30am – 11.00am

What is Taxidermy? Come along and learn about taxidermy with ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles Long.

We will read the Dead Zoo by Peter Donnelly, explore some of the museum's objects up close and learn how taxidermy is made.  

Pre school

Booking is advised, limited places

Free

 

Bone Detectives  11.30am - 12.15pm & 1.30 - 2.15pm

Come along and be a bone detective! Dissect an owl pellet and identify as many species as you can.

Owls swallow their prey whole, bones, fur feathers and all! They have a special digestive system different to ours. They regurgitate a ball of all the bits they cannot digest such as bones, fur and feathers. This is called a pellet, it is not poop or sick. Pellets can contain the fur, feathers, teeth, bones and beetle wing casings from an owl's last meal!

Early booking is advised, limited places

Free

 

About Jazmine

Working as a Taxidermist since 2007. Jazmine creates taxidermy for both the gallery and museum context, and so her work sits between the realms of art and science. Jazmine's love of natural history has led her to make work that respects the animal and focuses on the beauty of living things, giving the viewer the chance to explore nature up close. Offering an understanding of the animal and the taxidermy process itself promoting the scientific and cultural benefits of this intricate and evolving craft. Jazmine calls herself an 'ethical' taxidermist to describe the way she produces work only using animals that have died from natural causes.

Event funded through Art Fund and Arts Council England Lottery funding