Section 3 – Making and Growing
Art, crafts, gardening and baking helped many of us pass the time spent at home. These photos show examples of lockdown creativity from giant jigsaws to miniature houses.
Together with the rest of the UK, Wycombe Museum went into lockdown on 23 March due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Museum staff worked from home to begin with, then most were furloughed. Keeping in touch with our volunteers, one of them suggested we do an exhibition of local experiences of lockdown. This became possible with funding from Arts Council England, and we appealed for photos of lockdown through social media.
The images we received divided into sections, reflecting the main themes of lockdown:
Art, crafts, gardening and baking helped many of us pass the time spent at home. These photos show examples of lockdown creativity from giant jigsaws to miniature houses.
Everyone who submitted photographs and captions Deirdre White, whose idea this exhibition was Arts Council England
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