Drawing inspiration from Henry Clifton Sorby's lantern slide specimens, create your own creatures using light, inks, and paper.
In this hands-on session, you’ll have the chance to experiment with translucency and colour to craft unique designs.
Henry Clifton Sorby was a marine zoologist who pioneered a distinctive preservation technique that rendered specimens translucent while retaining their vivid colour. This allowed him to mount them as projection slides – known as "lantern slides” – to display marine life to large audiences.
You can see some of his original slides on display in the exhibition, Gathering Landscapes: 150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum.
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