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Kids Can Try Out the ‘Oliver Twist’ Lifestyle at This English Museum Revealing Conditions for Poor People in a Victorian Workhouse

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They’re young visitors to the newly reopened Workhouse Museum of Ripon, in northern England. The interactive museum occupies an actual Victorian workhouse, an English institution that promised work and shelter for impoverished people in the 19th century yet sometimes functioned as a sort of prison. It aims to show visitors the reality of such workhouses,…