Natural Sciences Collections Association

In our new Wye Tour gallery, there is a deep 'plinth' that runs around some of the room, and we are putting in animals and birds that live, or have lived in the Valley, and there are little doors to open (light comes on, and the sound that the animal makes will be heard). Specimens will be behind glazed panel and not touchable! I have been able to borrow a number of specimens from Newport Museum.

But they do not have a peregrine falcon, swift, sand martin, water vole, or a dormouse to lend.  Also I don't know whether bats came in for taxidermy or some means of preservation at all, because the greater and lesser horseshoe bats are important to the Wye Valley.

We are looking for specimens which are out of cases, or can be removed from cases.

Hope that you might be able to help!

Best wishes

Anne Rainsbury

Curator, Chepstow Museum

Bridge Street,

Chepstow

Monmouthshire NP16 5EZ

tel: 01291 625981

e-mail: chepstowmuseum@monmouthshire.gov.uk