The castle Museum York

http://www.yorkcastleprison.org.uk/keepers-prisoners.html#elizabeth-boardingham

http://www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/exhibition/kirkgate-the-victorian-street/

The Castle museum at York
 At this museum they had prison cells which were originally cells from the time and they had actors projected on the wall acting they were in the cell and telling use their story. The people they were acting were actual prisoners there. I liked the way they presented the exhibition because you really did feel like you were in prison in that era.
Also at the Castle Museum there is a Victorian street which you can enter the shops and it explores the wealthier population to the poorer and you get an I site what life is like and what the streets smelt like and what the work and social aspects are like. I like how the museum have put everything together and how it makes you feel like you are living in the Victorian era. I found this museum very interesting and a very good experience I would highly recommend you to go. Visit shops, like Banks Music, Sessions Printers and Terry’s sweet shop, which are names still operating today; others are within living memory for many residents like Leak and Thorp Drapers shop. What I found amazing is you get to see fascinating goods for sale which have disappeared from our high streets today from Cooper’s Saddlers, Horsley’s Gunsmiths, Cooke’s Scientific Instruments and Edward Allen Taxidermist. Some sold to the rich, like George Britton’s grocers, importers of fine teas and coffees; others like Thomas Ambler’s grocers to the working class. Some did both – John Saville, Pharmaceutical Chemist, would sell to leading citizens but also worked as a surrogate doctor to the poor.

At the museum there was also an exabition about the sixties and how this era made us who we are now and how things have changed from technology to style. The gallery uses fascinating and iconic objects from our social history, art, fashion, military and astronomy collections to bring back the atmosphere of change which swept over the country during the 1960s. Highlights include a Lambretta scooter, a Dansette record player, Beatles singles and fashion by Mary Quant. It was a amazing experience for me on a personal level throughout the exabition my dad was saying how he had that and singing along to the music that was played not only do you learn about the era at the museum I got to understand how it influenced my dad. Using visual design and colour schemes influenced by the trends of the decade, it explores key themes such as fashion, music, the home, sport, childhood, the Space Race, free love, counterculture and women’s liberation. Household exhibits include food packaging, clothes, electrical items, toys, records and more. Visitors can listen to memories of the decade via special telephones, listen to music on a Jukebox and watch television and film footage from the time. This part of the sixties exabition I liked the most I like to look at packaging and clothes and toys and how things have changed.

If you ever get the chance to go to York I do highly recommend going to this museum I had a fantastic time and most of all I learnt so much.