You Are What You Ate

We are organizing free exhibitions, one in each year of this three-year project. The first exhibition ran in Wakefield Museum from 5 March to 1 October 2011 with the theme ‘Sugar and spice and all things nice’. Year two's exhibition opens in Pontefract Museum on the 3 March 2012 and is entitled ‘The dark side of eating’. In the last year of the project, a larger exhibition in Wakefield Museum will bring together the themes of the whole project and is called ‘A balanced diet: past and present’.

The Dark Side of Eating

How horrible was history really? Find out more about the grim history of eating in Yorkshire from the Middle Ages to today. Compare medieval and modern ideas about famine, drink and obesity and see for yourself the effects of diet on the human skeleton.

The exhibition opens on the 3 March and runs until 29 September 2012. Entry is free. Pontefract Museum is open Monday to Friday 10am to 4.30pm and 10.30am to 4.30pm on Saturday.

For more information about the exhibition, contact us.

Further details about 'Sugar and Spice and all things nice' can be found here.

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