shoebox archive
encourage visitors to engage
with the multiple histories of
the old music hall, embedded in
the everyday objects that have
been found in the building - while
making reference to the Britannia
Panopticon’s previous function as
a shoe warehouse. The artefacts
are normally displayed in museum
cases, or behind glass.
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artefacts - including a baby’s
dummy, a fragment of celluloid,
a whelk shell and an empty
matchbox - excavated from under
the floor boards by the Britannia
Panopticon Trust volunteers.
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write their own histories
through leaving something
in one of the remaining 450
empty boxes.