TIME is running out to enjoy a nationally important exhibition at Ripon Museums.

Rogues and Vagabonds, which finishes its run on December 1, explores historic and contemporary homelessness across all three museums under the Ripon Museums umbrella; the Workhouse, Prison and Police and Courthouse.

Visitors are able to buy a combined ticket and follow the exhibition logo to trace the story across all three venues.

Through a variety of displays, the exhibition shines a light on a time when workhouse's casual wards provided short-term accommodation and food for vagrants, in return for them completing a work task.

Visitors can explore the realities of life for vagrants, including their food, clothing and work, in the vagrant's cells of the Workhouse Museum.

A good place to start the visit is in the original gatehouse building, which contains the Guardians' room, bathing area, vagrants' cells and receiving ward for inmates.

Another exhibition also running at the museum is‘Homeless not Faceless’ which has toured locally to great acclaim.

Meanwhile, an array of Halloween-themed activities are running at the Workhouse Museum throughout this week.