Rachel has been working on animation and museum resource with puppeteer Emma Boor of Wild Boor Ideas on geology interpretation for a partnership project between the Hancock Museum, Newcastle, Killhope Museum, Weardale and Harehope Quarry, Weardale. The first phase of the project has been research on different ways of presenting geology to young audiences. This has culminated in It Rocks!, an animation and puppet show presented at Killhope Museum as part of the North Pennines Northern Rocks Geology Festival. The show has been re-worked for Harehope Quarry and was shown on September 24th allowing visitors the chance to explore the newly developed site. See below for pictures from the event.
The research undertaken during the project will feed into a mobile Rocks Bocks resource that can be used for outreach work to go to schools and other museums in the area.

Photographs by Louise Taylor