Frome Museum is about to reveal some hidden treasures in its new summer exhibition.
Curators of the museum say, “Our limited space doesn’t always enable us to reveal all the interesting artefacts we have in storage. This summer (from May 23rd) we have decided to display some of these (along with recent natural history acquisitions) in our new exhibition ‘Unwrapped … and in the Spotlight’.
Did you know … woolly mammoths once roamed freely in Somerset (about 400,000 years ago). A 13,000 year-old cave painting of a woolly mammoth was discovered in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset!
“We can’t show you a mammoth, but the new exhibition does contain a mammoth tooth – also a bird nest made of 6,000 pieces, a cannon-balled sized semi-precious crystal, and a two-thousand million year-old fossilized microbial mat.”
Simon Carpenter, volunteer curator of the exhibition says, “Frome Museum has some fantastic and exciting gems in its collection that rarely see the light of day. This is our chance to get them out of the shadows.”
Pop in and take a look. The exhibition opens Tuesday 23 May for three months. Frome museum is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 2pm from mid-March to mid-November. Also open on Frome Independent Market Sundays.
