Herefordshire Council's new Museum on the Move was launched this week at The Courtyard Theatre in Hereford.
This brand new, purpose-built exhibition space on wheels replaces the old purple one which has toured Herefordshire and Shropshire for the past 10 years.
Climate change is the theme of the exhibition on board the Museum on the Move and it will look at how the world has changed from before the age of dinosaurs up to the present day, finally focusing on The Gambia, an entire country at threat from flooding.
For the launch, local musician Pedro Brown will have taught 10 pupils from Lord Scudamore School the techniques of Gambian drumming, using his own Gambian drums. The pupils will be giving two presentations of drumming at the launch, which starts at 11am.
The exhibition on board is an exciting, hands-on one. Visitors will be able to find out the effect of climate change on giant cockroaches, mammoths, puffins and humans and what they can do to slow down the process.
Visitors will also be able to sit under a mango tree and experience the sounds of Africa, go fishing in a Silurian sea, study slides under a microscope, watch debates on climate change on the computer and open drawers to discover more.
The Museum on the Move exists to go out to communities who might not otherwise have access to the museum service and is also very popular with schools.
Its exterior design, with the logo "Route to discovery" has been chosen to reflect some of the things in the museums' collections, including a silhouette of the famous Herefordshire bull!
Elizabeth Pimblett, Herefordshire Council's community heritage officer, said: "Having spent so much time with designers planning the new bus, we are so excited to see how wonderful it looks. It will be such an asset for Herefordshire and Shropshire.
"The exhibition on board has created an enormous amount of interest already and it's not yet in the county," she added.
To book the bus in the summer or for the second tour (October-December) telephone 01432 383595.