Stone age couple visit the museum
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY 2.30 - 3.00 with children from Hannover Street and Causewayend Schools
People often think museums are just full of old bits of stone -but visitors to Marischal Museum on Thursday 18 March may get a surprise. A Stone Age couple will be working in the museum - busily making the tools they would need for everyday life 6000 years ago!
Britain's best flintknapper, John Lord from Norfolk, will be demonstrating in Marischal Museum, making flint tools just like the ones our ancestors used in the North East. His wife, Val who is a specialist with natural fibres, will also be showing how prehistoric people made string and material from plant and animal fibres.
There is a free lunchtime session open to the public from 12- 1.30. Then in the afternoon, two local schools will be sending classes to 'visit the Stone Age'.