Dr Marisa Carnesky

Designed by Marisa Carnesky, this evocative and spacious room is adorned with showgirl and show woman-inspired ephemera including pieces of costume and artefacts that embody the experiences of women performers, past and present. Through montages of imagery, collections of objects and oral history recordings, Carnesky’s room tells the story of minority women performers who have appeared in Blackpool shows, and the politics that surrounded them. There is an installation of four telephones which tell the stories of Blackpool’s palaces of entertainment and the women who made them come alive from the 1950s to the present day.