© National Museums Scotland.

What is he looking at through the bucket? What is the stick for?

© Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council.

This is an opened-up mussel shell with all the flesh scooped out. What is the orangey ball shaped object?


Look for the young mussels stuck to the older ones. Can you see the open shells, where the mussels are filtering the water?

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This is the crown worn by Scotland’s kings and queens. How many pearls roughly do you think there are on the Scottish Crown? They are freshwater pearls from Scotland.