Sometimes entertaining the kids can be murder but this is taking things one giant leap further.
Ipswich Art Gallery has given over two entire exhibition spaces to Whodunit an exhibition that invites families with children aged 8 and over to find out how security guard Arthur Locke came to be lying dead in the rhino enclosure of Menagerie Park.
Not since Miss Scarlett killed Mr Black with the lead piping in the ballroom have children been as actively involved in solving a gruesome crime.
But while the Cluedo board offered only dice, plastic markers and small fake weapons, this exhibition goes way, way further.
Families will find themselves examining poo samples, studying DNA and matching fingerprints, fibre samples and tyre prints.
They can roll out the body on a tray in the morgue just like in the TV shows and question the forensic pathologist.
Best of all, by comparing the size of maggots and analysing the core body temperature the time of death can be accurately calculated.
Yep, this is not your average children's exhibition and that's what makes it so much fun.
"This is really interesting. I want to be a detective when I grow up - Mr Oliver aged 10"
It sounds macabre but really it's analytical rather than despicable.
It is very questionable whether this exhibition is rightly housed in an art gallery but there is no question that it is a creative and imaginative activity for kids.
And it's not even as though the organisers are making a killing out of this - the exhibition at the Ipswich Art Gallery until May 5 is free.
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