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Feb 2021
Ripon Workhouse Museum provides illuminating experience
The Workhouse Museum in Ripon is providing another illuminating experience.
The Allhallowgate building is being lit up shortly after dark each evening with displays celebrating the city’s past.
The images are being projected onto the museum, which is currently closed due to lockdown.
Organised by Ripon Museum Trust, the idea follows the successful Christmas lighting display, which used the building as a backdrop.
Called Serving Our Community – Images from Ripon’s Past, the light show features historic photographs from the Ripon Re-Viewed collection.
It includes images of civic leaders, emergency services, voluntary groups and others who have provided community service in the city.
The message taken from the past applies to current times, making the point that 'together we are stronger'.
Helen Thornton, director of Ripon Museum Trust said:
Designed and created by locally-based audio-visual and lighting specialists Fusion LX, the light show runs for two hours each evening.
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Mandy Whitehead, project lead at Ripon Re-Viewed, said:
The display can be viewed for two hours just after dark.
Ripon's three museums are currently closed due to the national lockdown.
Full details of the museums’ reopening will be published online at riponmuseums.co.uk as soon as they are available.
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