Newton Abbot Museum

Terrific Tour

Earlier this summer we had the great pleasure of showing a group of young ladies from the 3rd Newton Abbot (Salvation Army) Brownies around the museum and they did a great job of getting to grips with local history.

They tried out stereoscopes:

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Tried on past fashions:  

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Impersonated certain famous engineering personages:

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Brunel would approve!

And imagined the world beneath the waves with our Lethbridge display:

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They then got creative with our collections: inventing their own diving engines:

 Drawing their favourite things in the museum:

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And telling us what they wanted to see at the new site:

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Thanks girls for a brilliant day!