Learning in museums can be all about making personal connections.
Sometimes people make the most unexpected connections.
A secondary school girl spoke to me the other day,
"See that dog's head?"
"...my brother's girlfriend looks like that."
It got me thinking, which dog do I look like?
You may be thinking, just the heads? One little boy, struggling with the idea of just the heads, was saved from the brink of tears when a quick-thinking gallery attendant reassured him that all was OK because the dogs were still intact, their bodies behind the wall. He left happy.
If you would like to see the collection of dog's heads and perhaps decide who they look like. Visit the Natural History gallery at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill.
http://www.horniman.ac.uk/
