An exhibition of illustrations by Monica Beisner of Ovid’s Metamorphoses was held in August last year at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta as part of Evenings on Campus 2012. 

After a session in which Salvu Mallia, artist and TV personality, described the marvellous tales to young visitors, a competition was organised in which children were invited to draw, paint or write about what they saw and heard. The winners of the competition received a year’s membership with Heritage Malta and were recently presented with copies of The Heavenly Zoo illustrated by Monica Beisner and presented to the winners by the artist herself. Dr Michael Zammit, senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Malta and by Marcia Grima, coordinator with Heritage Malta, presented the certificates.