n By Mark Metcalf
VISIT THE MUSEUM High Street, Hull, HU1 1PS
01482 300300
In a similar fashion to the total absence of agricultural workers in paintings from the past this is a silent testament to a race of people that have lived here for centuries but who have been largely drowned by deafening silence.
Cannon hopes the exhibition will be attended by “gypsy and travellers who will feel valued to see their culture represented. I hope that other communities attend and learn something new, or at least open their minds a little”.
Diaper has been heartened that Gypsies and Travellers have visited Streetlife to view the displays on their culture and social history and “when we did a small opening there was a couple of families who were passing through locally who came along and expressed their pleasure afterwards.”
He is hopeful of developing more exhibition projects with G&T. “Now that we have gained a bit of trust, we have already had some initial interest and we have some spaces that could accommodate temporary works.” Diaper has also had visitors to Streetlife, which is ostensibly a transport museum, express their pleasure at seeing the G&T community represented.
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Visitor Ian Atherton felt it was “only right that G&T are represented in a Hull Museum. If you want to know the true history of a place then every part has to be represented and my dad worked as a scrap man with many gypsies.”
Atherton, who has regularly visited Appleby Horse Fair, believes much of the negative perceptions towards G&T are “generated by the media because once people mix with one another they soon get along well enough.”
The Streetlife Museum of Transport is
home to over 200 years of transport history spread across six galleries. Situated within Hull’s Museums Quarter, the Streetlife Museum of Transport neighbours both Wilberforce House and the Hull & East Riding Museum which are also free to enter.
In recent times the Wilberforce Museum has been working with the local Black Community to develop new galleries looking at the legacies of transatlantic slavery. A temporary exhibition Uncovering Modern Slavery has just opened.
Mark Harvey
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