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Youngsters get a wriggle on

We have provided financial support to enable thousands of youngsters to visit a new family-friendly, free exhibition at the National Museum of Wales.

Called Wriggle, the exhibition provides a hands-on, interactive, educational experience studying all kinds of worms, including earthworms, leeches and sea-worms.


Marine biologist and senior curator at the museum, Katie Mortimer-Jones and WPD’s Karen Welch are pictured presenting pupils from Pencoed Primary School with their iPad and showing off the schools winning entry.

Opening its doors last summer, the exhibition was due to run for a year, but is now being extended until the end of 2017 because of its success, as exhibition curator, Katie Mortimer-Jones explained.

“We’ve been delighted with the success of Wriggle – it’s wonderful to see how well children and adults alike have engaged with the exhibition. It’s really hands on and interactive, and you can either crawl into the Wriggloo or use microscopes and magnifiers to see some wonderful worms up close,” said Katie.

“From fossils to fantasy, food to spectacular beauty, visitors can discover for free the mind-blowing diversity of worms – including the scary ones – from the museum’s own collections,” she said.

In addition to providing funding, we also ran a social media competition inviting visitors to share their favourite images of the exhibition on Facebook or Twitter in an effort to win mini iPads.

Pencoed Primary School, near Bridgend and Rhian Rogers from Cardiff were the lucky winners.
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