THE MUSEUM OF ORDINARY PEOPLE (MOOP)

The Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is an award-winning pop-up museum that celebrates the ripples people leave behind, telling hidden stories in the lives of ordinary people using everyday objects.

As part of the Brighton Festival 2021, MOOP is launching a new immersive exhibition, HOME, presenting fascinating, heartbreaking and uplifting stories of ordinary people. The exhibition will go on show at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton in May 2021.

The exhibition tells the incredible story of Brighton resident Harriet Silvester, a one-woman protest, who in her 80s refused to vacate her home when the developers moved in forcing them to build around her.

A row of terraced houses, Waterloo Place, used to stand where Brighton’s Phoenix Art Space is now. In the Sixties, Waterloo Place terrace was bought to make way for office space. All the residents sold up and left before the houses were demolished and building began - except for Harriet - who lived in the middle of the terrace and refused to leave.

HOME will be exhibited at the Phoenix Art Space, where Harriet’s house once stood.

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