Development
Infinity Box
At the end of the activity, participants are invited to put their mouse inside the Infinity box and see their mouse multiplied into many animals. As they watch their single unique mouse become many indistinguishable mice we start to ask about caring for an individual verses caring at scale and what kinds of responsibilities and care does a maker have for the future of their colony?
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Ear Punch
In our activity, people use the ear punch to make a hole in the mouse’s ear to connect it to the passport. In carrying out the same movement as an animal technician might do, they can learn about the use of ear notching as a means of identification and source of tissue for genotyping, and it may (or not) raise an affective response as they metaphorically cut some of the body of the animal they’ve just created.
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Biobank
Biobanks are where frozen mice embryos are stored until needed for implanting into a surrogate mouse mother. Our Biobank is repurposed picnic cooler filled with ice packs.
Development
Development
Evolving the Mouse Exchange The Mouse Exchange has gone through many iterations since Paul and Sara sat at the Nightingale building at the University of Southampton and invited people to come and make a mouse. The Mouse Exchange evolved and Read more…
About
The Team
The Mouse Exchange was developed by members of the Animal Research Nexus project team at the University of Southampton (Dr Emma Roe, Dr Sara Peres and Dr Paul Hurley) and the University of Manchester (Dr Bentley Crudgington). The activity was Read more…
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Our Approach
We invite small groups of members of the public to “make a mouse” with researchers, using felt, wool and other craft materials. Throughout the 20 or so minutes we spend together participants can explore the origins of laboratory mice through conversation and interaction with objects.