The new natural sciences display at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery was officially opened on Saturday.

The display, Science Classes, consists of beautifully illustrated library books on the natural sciences and specimens from the museum's natural sciences collections, including fossils, butterflies and moths, herbarium and seaweeds, birds eggs and corals.

Honorary librarian Sue Baldwin spoke about the books, explaining that many on display dated from the original foundation of the museum library in 1878 and had been donated by eminent collectors and natural historians.

Many of the specimens on display matched up with the hand-painted illustrations in these books and revealed what many of the early collectors were interested in.

Sue then introduced Christian Baars, project leader of the Linking Natural Science Collections in Wales project.

Christian said: "It's a pleasure to be here at Tenby Museum and to be invited to open this fantastic display." He gave details of the Linking Natural Sciences project, stating that one of the main aims for it was to raise interest in the natural science collections found in museums across the country.

He went on: "The Science Classes show has been beautifully curated by the staff and volunteers at Tenby Museum. One of the highlight pieces is the deaths head hawk moth which is an excellent specimen and the drawing of the item in the book is beautiful."

The display runs at the museum until March 23.