It is of the traditional rural, symmetrical, four-up, four-down domestic design which was common in the Georgian era and continued throughout the 19th century.

[5] Bradford City Council has built an extra ground-floor room onto the left hand side,[4] and this contains the museum entrance door and reception.

You place a dish of natural objects (for example houseflies) on the lighted tray at the bottom, and move it around until it shows in the video screen at the top.

[7] Along the back wall is a gallery of fishtanks, containing (depending on availability) animals such as tadpoles, bullheads, goldfish and water fleas.

[10] On the wall opposite Reception there used to be an indoor beehive with an observation panel for the children, but it was dismantled due to colony collapse disorder.

[11][12][13] This computer uses a Dangerous Creatures CD-ROM, a program for children which allows them to learn about wildlife outside the UK while being entertained.

One, made of painted plywood, is for young children, and has large wooden handles which cause rabbits, birds and other animals to pop up out of holes in the screen.

[15] This safety-glass display is behind the entrance door, and set low enough for young children to see some of the mounted birds at eye-level.

This room contains displays of archaeological, geological and local history exhibits which are aimed at both adults and children.

[18] The stone was found in Near Hey Gate Field near Baildon by a local landowner on 25 September 2001, and it is believed that it was originally a rock with a larger area of 5000-year-old petroglyphs that had been quarried nearby in recent history, then dressed on two sides for wall-building.

It is at the landowner's wish that the stone is preserved at the museum, as near as possible to its original site, because it cannot now be returned to the position where it lay in the neolithic era.

[18][20][21] Within reach of children, there is an Iron Age beehive quern-stone with removable wooden handle and plenty of grain for grinding.

[25][26] There are also fossils of Lepidodendron, Stigmaria, Carbonicola, Dunbarella and Lingula: all found in the Baildon Moor area.

[18][27][28][29][30][31] There is an information board about local sedimentary rock, with a display of small, loose stones for children to handle.

The information board has a cross-section of Baildon Moor, showing the layers of different sedimentary rock and faults.

[18] Children who later walk or picnic on the moor across the road will see the large rocks, weathered to show faults and sedimentary layers.

[18] For example, they can see the more academic approach of previous centuries, including the obsession with classification[35] and dusty books, together with hand-coloured drawings and a brass optical microscope.

[37] There are autumn seeds to identify in this display,[38] and an opportunity for a close-up view of some of the UK's more shy animals: the weasel, shrew and jay.

[41][42][43] On the lawn is another animal hutch, a safety cage for beehives - disused due to colony collapse disorder - and a shed with batboxes fixed to the side.

[45] Here is an old bathtub full of wild flowers growing, and a safety cage for the now-disused entrance to the indoor beehive.