Where will I find that tapeworm with the lovely face?
LIFE for museum staff is supposed to be pretty dull.
LIFE for museum staff is supposed to be pretty dull.
Info Zone staff Georgia Rogers and Mark Glancey, and, left, the tapeworm and the big fish Photograph: Gordon Terris
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Just one of the crazy questions asked at the National Museum of Scotland Report by Judith Duffy
It's the same old requests day in and day out: where's this exhibit, where's that exhibit, where's the cafeteria, the giftshop, the toilets. But not any more.
Visitors have deluged a new information service at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh with a series of baffling and bizarre questions such as, 'where is the tapeworm with a lovely face I saw as a child?'.
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