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Royal Geographic Society eyes small museum for its exhibition
Seeing really is believing at a new exhibition in Leyland.
The tiny South Ribble Museum in Church Street has been chosen to show the Royal Geographic Society's Is Seeing Believing?
Visitors can get up close to a selection of scientific drawings, prints, paintings and digital images from the 16th Century to the present day, with many coming from the Royal Society's own archives.
The centrepiece is a huge image of the Crab Nebula, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Other highlights include Hooke's flea from Micrographia, images of British algae from the first book illustrated with photographic pictures and naturalist John Gould's drawings of newly-discovered Australian animals.
The collection has come to Leyland as part of the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 2009 Year of Science.
The exhibition runs until September 26 and admission is free.
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