The final exhibition of work, sited at Bolton Museum in summer 2006, consisted of a video piece, as well as a large display cabinet. The cabinet featured research, natural history specimens, equipment used, small drawings and maps – in fact pretty much everything we used, recorded and found out over the duration of the project. The same class and Bolton Museum followed this work with a project late in 2006 that documented the local woodland flora and fauna. Called ‘In the footsteps of Darwin’ the project won the prestigious Rolls Royce Prize for Science in schools.

Big Cats in Britain Brian Percival
Brian Percival	Big Cat Exhibitions - Brian Percival I am a professional artist based in Manchester. During 2006 and 2007 I was approached by both Bolton Museum and Manchester Museum to come up with art project(s) linking the Museum collections to schools. Bolton Museum has a cast of a pawprint from a big cat sighting in 1996 and Manchester Museum has a good native and non native display. These were the areas I concentrated on. Email BCIB: bigcatsinbritain@btinternet.com

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Art Installation at Salford museum and Art Gallery for Engage Project with Manchester Museum and St Ambrose Barlow High School in Salford. Based on native and non native fauna. June 2007.

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Brian Percival and year 5 pupils at St Stephens and All Martyrs Primary (exhibition)
Bolton. Sited at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery Summer 2006

(Below left) This is a cast taken from a big cat sighting in Belmont
(Bolton) in 1996. This cast is in the Museum stores.

(Center) Skulls and cast

(Right) Art Installation at Salford museum and Art Gallery for Engage
Project with Manchester Museum and St Ambrose Barlow
High School in Salford. Based on native and non native fauna.
June 2007.