Early Man

     Children are able to   get an idea from the  paintings in the background, which  depict a typical dwelling of early man and scenes illustrating the hunting of the saber-toothed tiger, the bison and the mammoth.  Stone tools like axes, spearheads and pieces of flint used by the early cave dwellers are mounted to illustrate their usage.

Looking inside Animals

      Having introduced the children to the external form and appearance of select representative types of the major groups of animals, they are now taken one step further and led on in the succeeding series of four show cases to an acquaintance with the internal structure of some of the main types of animal life. Four showcases contain a series of enlarged models of a dissected earthworm, a fish, a frog, a garden lizard, a pigeon and a rabbit, with all the parts of their internal gross anatomy individually labelled. These models serve to illustrate the different organ systems in these important animal types which represent the invertebrates and each of the five classes of vertebrates, namely, fishes, amphibia, reptiles, birds and mammals. These models of internal structure are exhibited side by side with mounted specimens (or models) of all the animals so that children are able to get an idea of both the external form as well as the internal structure of these animal types at a simple glance.