Museum of Everyday
Summer 2021
Cottingley Springs, Leeds,UK
Indvidual Work
Cottingley Springs Gypsy and Traveller Site can be found on the outskirts of South Leeds, it is in an area surrounded by fields, but cannot properly be described as open countryside, since it is so near to a busy motorway, in an area dotted with industrial estates and generally prone to air pollution, traffic noise etc.
The main purpose of the museum is to provide a better site to accommodate the Romany Gypsies as well as travellers while functioning as a museum for turists to know better about the Gypsy history as well as experience their traditional activities. Just like the name of this project, this is not a museum of displacement, but a museum of observe, experiencing the everyday life of this group of people.