Wild Escape Project delivered by The Museum of Gloucester

Children looking at the taxidermy from the museum while making comics in their classroom.

The Museum of Gloucester was proud to be part of the Wild Escape pilot project supported by Art Fund!

We took our taxidermy on tour to the Forest of Dean where students created the most wonderful comics that told of the escape from the Museum to a better environment.

We are so lucky to have an incredible education collection that we could take into the classroom for the students to get up close with and using some fact sheets, think about what would be the best environment for the things that fly.

We started by introducing that I was from the Museum. We asked what a Museum was and then we went onto the taxidermy. We also talked a little about why people stuff animals.

We then told them we were going to create a cartoon that told the story of one of our flying creatures escaping to a better world. What would that look, feel and sound like?

The poem below was created by a KS1 teacher from Gloucestershire who was inspired by the Wild Escape project. The KS2 class spent time making comics, check out our Instagram for some of the kids telling their tales!