Treat for fossil lovers at museum

Elgin Museum opens later this month.

New displays will feature local entrepreneur Albert Bonici and the Two Red Shoes ballroom.

Windy Miller, one of the bands which featured in the ballroom, will play a few numbers from noon on March 28 to celebrate the opening – and the man who brought so many big names to Elgin.

Also on display will be fossils of Elginerpeton pancheni – one of the first animals to make the transition from water to land, more than 300 million years ago.

The exhibition brings together remains from the first four-limbed animal whose body can be reconstructed from fossil evidence.

The first art exhibition of the year will be work by Julie Reynolds. To The Lonely Sea And The Skies will be showing from March 28 until May 9.

On April 24 at 7.30pm Professor Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University will give a lecture on Elginerpeton pancheni.

On April 25 and 26 there will be a fossil finders weekend.