Natural History Gallery
The Natural History gallery is a fun, friendly and spacious gallery that also provides
visitors with an insight into the wonderful wildlife and landscapes to be found in and around
Stoke-on-Trent. It includes activities that encourage communication between all age
groups, there is a discovery zone and even a garden area for you to enjoy.
You can see many examples of local animals, plants, rocks and fossils as you
encounter limestone grassland, moorland, city and town areas, coniferous and
deciduous woodland, heathland, field and hedgerow and finally freshwater habitats.
Underlying these - literally - is the progress from the oldest locally exposed rocks of
the Carboniferous Limestone, through the Millstone Grit, Coal Measures, Triassic
pebble beds and mudstones, and finally to the Quaternary deposits from the last Ice Age.
To quote Arnold Bennett, referring to Staffordshire in his novel The Old Wives Tale:
England can show nothing more beautiful and nothing uglier than the works of nature
and the works of man to be seen within the limits of the county. It is England in little, l
ost in the midst of England, unsung of searchers after the extreme.
