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Garden Detectives

Unearth nature's little secrets in Garden Detectives!

This exhibition gave young children the opportunity to find out what lives and grows in parks and gardens, hedges and ponds - all within the walls of the National Museum of Scotland.

Children investigating the hedge

With interactive exhibits and real live specimens, kids could take a larger-than-life look at plants and flowers, learn fascinating facts about nature and experience all the sounds and smells of a real garden without getting your hands dirty.

Boy looking at insects

Our summer exhibition celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and 150 years since the publication of his research, 'The Origin of Species'.

Garden Detectives is currently running at the National Museum of Rural Life.

This exhibition is sponsored by:

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