Prisoner of War craftwork

Peterborough Museum holds the Norman Cross collection of prisoner of war craftwork.

The prison at Norman Cross, near Peterborough, was built to hold French and Dutch prisoners captured during the Napoleonic Wars between 1797 and 1815.

Considered both the largest and finest collection of such items in the world, the museum displays objects of carved bone and ivory, including model ships, guillotines, needlework boxes, playing cards and articles of straw marquetry.