A series of exhibitions using Northumberland's animals to tell stories of community, climate change, migration and identity is set to open across the county.
A Northumberland Menagerie, by visual artist Bethan Maddocks, will be on display at four museums: Woodhorn Museum, Hexham Old Gaol, Berwick Museum and Art Gallery and Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum. Bethan uses paper cut installations to tell unique and untold stories about animals, people and places from across the county.
At Woodhorn Museum, which was recently awarded Bronze for small visitor attraction of the year at the North East Tourism Awards, the colliery's historic cage shop will become a giant beehive with audiences invited to take part in the tradition of 'telling the bees'. This involves sharing important news with the hive, as it was thought telling the bees about significant life events, like births, deaths and marriages would help ward off bad luck.
