Photo credit: © Lucy Sutton-Long
The Horniman Museum & Gardens has just launched a family-friendly interactive exhibition, Robot Zoo, which explores how animals function.
About
Robot Zoo examines how creatures function through the use of everyday items and animatronics. Louis Buckley, Senior Curator of Natural History explains: “These extraordinary robots are based on some equally amazing animals. These machines have been built to show how flies can walk on ceilings, chameleons change colour and squid move through water. My personal favourite is the six-foot robot bat hanging upside down, but I’m sure families will love meeting all sorts of mechanical creatures, from giraffes to grasshoppers!”
Highlights of the exhibition include a robotic rhino, a squid with 18-foot tentacles and a housefly with a vacuum cleaner mouth.
The Horniman has also commissioned Giulia Casarotto to create two interactive murals which have been inspired by the exhibition. Visitors are encouraged to find the chameleons hidden in a mural and match the animal to their habitat.
This major exhibition will run until 2 November.
Getting there
Horniman Museum & Gardens can be reached by taking the Jubilee line from Green Park to Canada Water, then the Windrush line from Canada Water to Forest Hill.