MORE than 50 volunteers are set to bring history to life when they prepare and eat a typical Victorian workhouse meal to create a contemporary artwork.
Artist Pippa Hale will film participants at Ripon Workhouse meal during the day-long event in the original workhouse kitchen and dining room.
The volunteers will be based on one that records show was served to inmates in 1861and cooking techniques from the era, under the direction of a professional cook which the volunteers will then eat in the original dining room.
The volunteers be segregated by sex, as would have happened in the 19th century.
The project, which is being funded by Arts Council England, will be filmed in January and later displayed in the museum tol help visitors to understand more what life was like in the workhouse.
James Etherington, director of Ripon Museums Trust, said: “We hope this project will draw attention to the gender, class and societal position in the latter part of the nineteenth century and bring alive the experience of living in the workhouse for both volunteers and visitors”.
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