An interactive exhibition now open at Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks details the role that rats have had in preserving the young nation's history.
Although they were the stuff of nightmares for the inmates at the barracks at the time, present-day historians and archaeologists have been able to use the materials the rats scavenged to show how people of the time lived and worked.
Visitors to the exhibition can rest assured that all the display materials have been cleaned and disinfected before they get to touch them
An interactive exhibition now open at Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks details the role that rats have had in preserving the young nation's history.
Although they were the stuff of nightmares for the inmates at the barracks at the time, present-day historians and archaeologists have been able to use the materials the rats scavenged to show how people of the time lived and worked.
Visitors to the exhibition can rest assured that all the display materials have been cleaned and disinfected before they get to touch them
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-20/rats-were-this-sydney-museums-first-curators/11980680