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The Exhibition

What Makes Us Human?

Is it the size of our brains?
Is it what we can do?
Or how we think?
A chimp looking right.
Is it because we have friends?
Is it what we believe?
Are we made in the image of God?
A whale deep in the ocean.

We have a sense that we are unique.
We think we are different to other animals.
But are we?

A dog with its tongue out, looking at the viewer.

We differ in degree rather than in kind with the other creatures in the animal kingdom.

A rat looking left.

What does that mean for our relationship with them?
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The entrance to the Wardlaw Museum, with trees in the background, on a sunny day.

Take part in one of our events

Join us at our Holiday Workshops to play like a dog, sing like a whale, craft like a crow, chat like a chimp, and run like a rat.

Don’t miss the opportunity to Escape Extinction at our Escape Room Experience in the Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History.

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