Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi

Dried fungi from the museum archive. Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian

For one of the installations, a musician spent hours in woodland “collaborating” with fungi to create a soundscape inspired by the electricity they emit.

Another is a kinetic sculpture of an extinct fungus that honours Beatrix Potter not for her tales of mischievous rabbits but for her lesser-known skills as a mycologist – a fungi expert.