Visitors can choose what to pay at latest Perth Museum Waters Rising exhibition

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Perth and Kinross residents are being invited to add their own flooding experiences and photos to Perth Museum's latest exhibition.Waters Rising traces stories and objects connected to flooding both globally and more locally in Perth and Kinross.It opens to the public on Friday, November 8 and will run until March 16, 2025 with the public invited to 'pay what they choose' rather than pay a set admission fee as they did previously for Unicorn.Part of the exhibition explores the impact of flooding and extreme weather events on Perth and Kinross communities.

It includes photos, films, written memories and oral histories from residents.A separate room looks at flooding in a global context, including the Great Flood and Noah as well as ceremonial brass bowls commemorating the Hindu flood myth of Vasudeva and Krishna.

There is an Egyptian sarcophagus with Nile flood damage, a rare 13th century illuminated Bible and works from contemporary indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau and Scottish artists Will Maclean and Alan Kilpatrick.Curator Niamh Finlay explained: "Waters Rising is an exhibition that explores flooding as a concept culturally, physically and emotionally using flooding as a lens to look at the climate crisis."We look at the climate crisis in general as well as looking at global flood myths and the spreading of those myths, the interconnections between those myths just looking at this idea of a global flood.

This then leads into the second gallery which is much more hyper-local looking at Perth and Kinross flooding and the impact of flooding on this area and Scotland."It has a large community aspect with a very large collection of photographs that have been submitted as well as recycled postcards which people