Make Your Mark: Identity Boxes at People’s History Museum

Gemma Gibb, Associate Editor
People's History Museum

Make Your Mark: Identity Boxes at People’s History Museum (PHM), City Centre 12 April 2017 Entrance is free — Visit now

What makes you, you?  Be inspired by the personal collections in the exhibition Never Going Underground and think about your family and what makes it unique.  Design an identity box and let your imagination run free with your decorating skills.  Create family peg dolls, pop-up home interiors and take a photograph of you and your loved ones to put inside.  Part of People’s History Museum’s Never Going Underground season, a year long programme of exhibitions, events and learning programmes exploring the past, present and future of LGBT+ activism.

 

Make Your Mark: Identity Boxes at People’s History Museum (PHM), City Centre 12 April 2017 Entrance is free Visit now

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