PETERBOROUGH MUSEUM EXHIBITION HAS 'CAPURED THE IMAGINATION' OF VISITORS

Peterborough Telegraph

Peterborough Museum's exhibition 'Must Farm, a Bronze Age settlement' has proved so popular that its run is being extended until October.   The museum's heritage manager, Sarah Wilson, gave the Peterborough Telegraph som einsight into why the exhibition has been so well received.

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00:00I think the exhibition has captured people's imagination, you know, it is so unique, 3,000

00:16years ago all of these items were left and yet here they are in this room and they are

00:24things that we would all at least recognize or relate to, so the food, you know, the platters

00:32that would have had food on it, some of the tools that would have been used to construct

00:38the pottery with, yeah, food residue, the textiles, the beads, it all tells the story

00:46of life 3,000 years ago and since really the discovery I think people have followed that

00:52story and this has been a chance for them to actually see the stuff in the flesh.

00:57And it's captured the imagination so much of the public that you've decided to extend

01:02the exhibition.

01:03We have, so we've been really lucky that we've been able to do that and we've had support

01:07from Historic England to do that and we felt it was important, you know, so many people

01:12have travelled quite a distance to come and see the excavation and, you know, I think

01:17it's so important that people have the opportunity to come and see it.

01:22We want to widen access, we want to bring people into the city as well, you know, Peterborough

01:27has an amazing story to tell and we want to share that with others and having this exhibition

01:35on for a bit longer enables us to do that for a little bit longer, so yeah.

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