The Pumphouse - People's History Museum
Take a Look Inside


- March 2010 -


The entrance foyer includes a shop, a cafe and a projection wall with cartoon characters walking through.  You can see Maggie Thatcher at this moment.  With the history of universal sufferage as a theme in the exhibition halls, a stack of ballot boxes grace the centre of the foyer.



Turn left into the old Pump House building.



This will be an exhibition space but at this early stage it is home to a temporary exhibition about the new museum.


The old crane spans the space.



An elevated walkway takes you back at the first floor level into the new extension.  To the right is a flow chart mapping out the tortuous track the country took to giving everyone the vote.



Visitors are invited to clock in and out of the museum.  What follows are a series of themed rooms over three floors telling important stories about the struggles for a democratic state.  Take a very brief glimpse below at the layout and the treasures contained within.






In case you should forget the building's history, the old water tanks have been restored and the glass walled stairwell offers you a good view of them.



April 2012

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