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Around Derby Museum and Art Gallery 3
1. In the ‘Richer than Gold’ gallery, in which cabinet will you find:
a) ‘Figures of a penguin and her three chicks’
b) ‘Figure of a Sheep’
2. In the same gallery:
a) What colour are the fire extinguishers?
b) How many are there in this gallery?
3. In the ‘Origins of Derby’ gallery, find the display called ‘The Roman Period’. Draw a
picture of one of the exhibits and write down its name and when it dates from.
4. For how many hours are the museum and art gallery open on Wednesdays?
5. Where are the toilets in the museum and art gallery?
6. What time is it on the grandfather clock in the ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie Room’?
7. What provides the light in this room?
8. Is it day or night in this room?
9. Find a curator (a member of staff) and ask them what their favourite exhibit or
painting in the museum and art gallery is. Write down their answer.
10. What colour is the model horse in the ‘Military Gallery’?
11. Find the mummies. In which country were people mummified?
12. Are visitors allowed to smoke in the museum and art gallery?
13. In the ‘Nature Gallery’, look for the display called ‘A day in the life of a hedgehog’.
Write down three things that a hedgehog likes to eat.
14. In the ‘Joseph Wright of Derby’ gallery, find the large portrait of the 18th century
industrialist who owned many mills in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire and
Scotland:
a) Write down his name.
b) Where did he build his first mill?
c) True or false – when he died in 1792 he was worth over half a million pounds.
15. In the ‘Military Gallery’, write down three items from the 1945 Christmas dinner menu
of the 27th Lancers regiment.

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Around Derby Museum and Art Gallery 3
Answers:
1.
a) Number 11.
b) Number 12.
2.
a) Red with black nozzles.
b) Three.
3. Practical activity.
4. Seven hours (10am – 5pm).
5. On the second floor.
6. Two minutes past eleven.
7. Candles.
8. It is night.
9. Practical activity.
10. White/grey.
11. Ancient Egypt.
12. No.
13. Answers will vary. For example, slugs, millipedes, earwigs, beetles, etc.
14.
a) Sir Richard Arkwright.
b) Cromford, Derbyshire.
c) True. That’s over £35 million in today’s money! (Source: Economic History

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