The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, or BRLSI for short, is a place where Science, Literature, and Art come together to help people learn and try new things. BRLSI have amazing collections of things from around the world, and this year their Academy of Imagination youth activities programme has been taking some very special objects out to schools and community groups in the local area.
And it might sound gruesome, but did someone mention skulls?
A recent trip to St Mary’s C of E Primary in Writhlington, saw groups of children spend time with Becky Thoburn BRLSI’s Learning and Engagement officer to handle objects from the museum’s natural history collections, including a vampire bat and badger skulls.
The children discovered, through a process of deduction, what it might be like to become a palaeontologist or evolutionary biologist. Asking clever questions helped the pupils understand differences in anatomy and discover amazing facts about why some creatures have bigger jaw muscles and different shaped skulls.
To learn more about the BRLSI schools outreach programme https://www.brlsi.org/schools/
