Object Walk: A Matchstick Violin Created by Prisoners

Interview: Andrea Hadley-Johnson
Monday 06 January 2020
reading time: min, words

We’ve teamed up with the National Justice Museum to put objects from the past into the hands of people of the present. This month, we took a matchstick violin created by prisoners to Adam Wood, Senior Promotions Manager at Rock City...

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“I’m really surprised at how ornate it is. It’s inspiring to see something so colourful coming from what I imagine to be a rather ‘grey’ environment.”

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“It’s intriguing to think about the situation in which the violin must have been created. Was it created by one member of the prison or multiple?”

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 “Was it in a class environment? Or did they collect matchsticks and make it in their cell? I guess we will never know.”

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