Hello,
I am Professor Ichthyosaurus, your companion and guide to all things BRLSI!
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 smile. Grown-ups who love books, science and art can visit to watch lectures and there are fun activities for children.
The really exciting part is that BRLSI has an amazing collection of things from around the world. Treasures from near and far that have been collected by enthusiasts and are shown in their exhibitions, like their brand-new one, Petrification.
The exhibition is running throughout the summer holidays and will include fun children’s activities as part of BRLSI’s Academy of Imagination programme!
The exhibition is all about the wonderful world of fossils! Two specially created BRLSI characters, Tom and Aisha, act as guides, illuminating you on everything you need to know, while a newly created BRLSI comic explains how a human’s understanding of fossils is constantly evolving.
Aisha and Tom throw down a challenge to discover the next chapter in the story of time for yourself. Wow! All sounds a little bit Doctor Who! Well, while you are out travelling through time, you might also want to look out for:
- Pre-historic treasures from all over the South-West. Did someone mention a woolly mammoth femur from Box, a dolphin skull from Twerton or the mammoth and his milk tooth from Wookey Hole?
- A Megalosaurus footprint. Megalosaurus was a fearsome predator that lived here during the Middle Jurassic period.
- Life-sized silhouettes of enormous, fearsome beasts, you can even take home brass rubbings showing their size compared to yours.
- A fossil hunt spin-the-wheel to discover which prehistoric specimens you might have encountered on your travels, then find them in the exhibition—if you dare!
Aisha and Tom share news of their travels in time, and encourage you to explore where some of the fossils on display were found. In addition to all this, they have very exciting info about prehistoric plants from Radstock.
If that isn’t exciting enough for you, you can get your creative juices flowing with some fantastic storytelling, gaming and printing workshops for families, built around BRLSI’s amazing artefacts, and even take a tour of their exhibition.
Whether big or small, be sure to visit BRLSI’s Petrification this summer holidays to find out how to tell your Jurassic from your Triassic and know which fearsome creatures once roamed the streets of Bath. And remember—don’t fall headfirst into Deep Time! We might not be able to get you out in time for the new school term!
For further info, and to book children’s tours:
