One of the exhibits in the Lindow Man exhibition is a bittern, a shy and reclusive bird, which once lived in the mosses of the North West.

As part of the exhibition we arranged for a box in which people could leave special offerings to show their respect for Lindow Man. We talked at some length during the development of the project about how we would deal with the material that was left by visitors.

Verity Walker, Director of Interpretaction, an organisation that works in the area of education and interpretation programme development for natural,cultural and historic sites, has visited the Lindow Man exhibition and made the following comments: “I think it works as an exhibition and its...

I recently got back off annual leave to find that one of my collegues, Jeff Horsley, Head of Exhibitions and Presentation,  had kindly left a copy of the catalogue to the Bocksten Man  exhibition in Gotenberg on my chair. Bocksten Man is a Swedish bog body dating from the Middle Ages.

The Lindow Man exhibition continues to draw comments in large numbers. Cat Lumb, Lead Educator (Secondary Humanities),  at the Manchester Musuem told me that for this quarter comment cards in LM were approximate to the number of cards collected from the rest of the museum!