Mental Health Museum Wakefield

http://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/quality-innovation/mental-health-museum/visit-us/

I visited this small but so interesting museum yesterday, the young woman who worked there was so informative and helpful, I took loads of photos of the exhibits, there was a padded cell and an autopsy table, all quite macabre but then I like that. As you can see in the photos there are a lot of keys, I think keys are going to feature in my work quite a lot. Some of the drawers had drawing of brains in them. I picked up a book to look at and a massive moth flew off it, I had disturbed it's sleep, anyway here are some of the photos.

This Victorian uniform give you the impression of the wearer being very stern, quite a few keys on that chain.

This is the peephole from the inside of the padded cell door, not much light would get in, hard to imagine how terrifying it must be to be in a straight jacket, inside a padded room with no light.

Some of the electric therapy machines

Autopsy Table

Another machine

Some sort of restraint that looks like it belongs on a horse