Report by Lauren Sewell
On a rainy Saturday 6th December, we set up tables downstairs at Warwick Market Hall Museum, for ‘Ask a Geologist’.
We were fortunate enough to have a steady stream of interested people all day and it was really great to hear stories of rock collecting and affinity with geology, take a look at rocks and fossils people had brought to show us, as well as meeting an experienced geologist from overseas keen to join us.
With Christmas crafts also going on upstairs at the museum, there were lots of children staying a while in the museum who were so impressed with their first visit to us that they came back again to us on their way down. Children especially loved looking through the magnifying glass and at the handheld microscopes to get a fantastic view of the grains that make up the different rocks…or the fabrics that make up clothes and the pores on your skin.
Adults and children alike enjoyed looking at the array of rocks and fossils on display and learning all about what they were, where they came from and just how staggeringly old some of them were, learning that some of the rocks were already here and some of the fossils were already fossils when dinosaurs roamed the land.
We had a good mix in our volunteer members of geologists, palaeontologists and enthusiasts, demonstrating that anyone can help at these events if you are willing and able to talk to members of the public.
