The North Otago Museum curator Ian Wards is promising a slightly disturbing visitor experience for people viewing the museum's new display, "The Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-shed".
The display of early 1900s potions, including the "famous because it's good" Oamaru-made Lanes Emulsion, has been set up in a tin shed.
The entertaining, tongue-in-cheek exhibition explores the Victorian and Edwardian obsession with the digestive system.
Mr Wards wanted to try something a bit different.
"With this exhibition I wanted to side-step the more conventional display cases and labels type exhibition.
"I wanted to create something that entertains as much as it educates.
"The idea is that this shed - a chemist's shop - has been transported through time, due to some wayward experimenting, and ended up plonked in the North Otago Museum," he said.
The exhibition uses clever lighting and audio trickery to creating an entertaining and slightly disturbing visitor experience.
The Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-shed runs until October.
