York Castle Museum
Social history museum in a Georgian prison, with a recreated Victorian street of real shop fronts.
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About this audio guide
This guide to York Castle Museum in York follows Dr John Kirk, a country surgeon in Pickering whose patients sometimes paid him in old household objects rather than coins. It touches on what he gathered, a trip to Stockholm in nineteen ten, and the question of how museums should show ordinary things. Best heard standing on the cobbles of the Victorian street inside.
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