Artwork and stories created by school children will be on display in a newly renovated room at a natural history museum as part of ‘Earth Day’.

The creative works produced by pupils from St Andrew’s, Barton Park and Wood Farm primary schools, were inspired by the butterfly collection and tree trail at Cheney School’s on-site museum, the Rumble Museum.

On Saturday, April 22 the stories and artwork will be on display all day in the Westwood Room of Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

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Internationally acclaimed artists Angela Palmer will also be doing workshops between 1pm and 3pm, sharing how she draws inspiration from the natural world and helping people use museum specimens to create their own artworks.

The exhibition is the result of a project run by the Rumble Museum, which was awarded a Wild escape grant for a project engaging primary school children with their natural history collections.

In partnership with the museum of natural history, the Rumble Museum ran tree trail tours and workshops for primary school groups on butterflies and biodiversity on site at Cheney School.

These workshops and trails introduced the children to the role, lifespan and homes of the British butterflies in the Rumble Museum collection, and explored the role of the butterflies in a biodiverse environment.

The children then took part in workshops run back at their own school which supported them in writing stories about the butterflies.

 

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This story was written by Matthew Norman, he joined the team in 2022 as a Facebook community reporter.

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