Museum Pieces Week Four
A Four Week Course
Hello, I’m Wendy Pratt; author and poet. I wrote a memoir, The Ghost Lake, about my experience of living on an ancient extinct glacial lake called Paleolake Flixton in North Yorkshire, and how I found my place in a long line of lake ancestry going back to the palaeolithic. I also wrote a poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk, a kind of sister project to the memoir.
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Now, let’s head into the museum.
For our last week we’re heading to the Yorkshire Museum, in York, one of my own personal favourite museums.
Here’s a little video to give you an idea of the museum itself. You’ll see that it sits right next to the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey, and it’s in the middle of a beautiful river side park.
The museum has a really good mix of interactive and traditional displays. They quite often have hands on archaeology days. Here’s me living my absolute best life in a replica mesolithic round house, made using the dimensions from the actual post holes found at Star Carr, my life long obsession and root of my memoir, The Ghost Lake!
The first object we’re going to look at is one of the most famous in the museum