What a precious object!
Leaving aside how accurate it might be, since it has most likely taken some hits and the axes of rotation might be crooked by a few hundredths, it would have been nice to explain to that child that with those same telescopes they were able to calculate the size of the earth, and that simply by measuring angles they could calculate distances...
Fascination of mathematics!
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You are right, the purpose of the museum is as a place of education, I will convey this to the collection curator.