A call has gone out for the public to bring their unusual antiques and family heirlooms to the iMusuem.
Manx National Heritage is hosting a ‘Junks, Gems and Jellyfish’ event next week with curators on hand to identify mystery objects.
It’s hoped people will bring in odd objects and treasures as well as things like fossils, plants and insects, to have them identified.
Curator of social history Matthew Richardson told us more:
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