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Updated On: 28 August, 2020 08:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Sukanya Datta
Help your kid learn about the evolution of animal species through artefacts of a SoBo museum in this online session
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Carved tortoise in soapstone, c. late 19th century, Agra. Permanent collection of Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
The first few months of the lockdown saw cooped-up humans take a renewed interest in nature, with social media buzzing with videos of dancing peacocks at Godrej Baug and flamingos turning the Uran wetlands into shades of pink. It also sparked off a larger conversation about climate change, nature reclaiming its space and evolution. While it's not possible to take this discourse to the zoo or the national park now, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum along with the non-profit organisation STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) Academy is organising an interactive Zoom session for kids from class six to eight to explore the animal kingdom through objects at the museum.
Ruta Waghmare-Baptista, assistant curator - education and collection at the museum, tells us the upcoming session, titled The Animal Kingdom, is part of the many children outreach activities that they have been conducting with STEAM, a collective of scientists, biologists and engineers who specialise in demystifying scientific concepts through storytelling. "There is a science and history behind all the artefacts in the museum. So, every month we have a theme that experts from STEAM address by connecting it with objects in the museum." She illustrates that previous sessions have been themed on the cannons at the museum and the physics behind it, and fossils and geology.
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