Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum)

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Review| November 01 2023 Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum) Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum), Svendborg, Denmark. Jeppe Wichmann Rasmussen, Curator, Researcher and Project Leader; Martin Friis Hansen, Researcher; Torden & Lynild (Thunder & Lightning), exhibition designers. September 19, 2020–ongoing. https://www.svendborgmuseum.dk/udstillinger/syv-fattige-born (Danish only). James I. Deutsch James I. Deutsch Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 111–114. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James I. Deutsch; Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum). The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 111–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search The extraordinary exhibition, Seven Poor Children (or Syv fattige børn in Danish), began with one extraordinary photograph from the early 1950s. It shows Lisa, then a five-or-six-year-old girl, smiling as she tenderly holds the hand of a man in his late eighties, seated on a bench outside the workhouse (formerly known as the poorhouse) in Svendborg, Denmark. Some four years before Seven Poor Children opened, Lisa had brought this small photograph to the Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum), which since 1974 has occupied the buildings of the former workhouse. Lisa explained that she was the eldest daughter of the workhouse’s warden, and that she knew only the man’s last name—which happened to be an uncommon one. Using archival registers of former workhouse inmates, researchers at the museum were able to determine that the man in the photo was named Hermann (born ca. 1864), and that since the 1890s he had... You do not currently have access to this content.