Harcourt Road Mobile Museum

Harcourt Road is a project co-led by Bloc Projects and artist-organisers C&G Artpartment (Clara Cheung and Gum Cheng), who have been local to Crookes and Broomhill since 2021. It looks at the histories of community organising on Harcourt Road, a street that exists both in Sheffield and Hong Kong.

Together with residents in Sheffield, we hope to co-build a collection of stories and objects about Harcourt Road and the surrounding area to be shared on our e-bike mobile museum. Across weekends in August and September 2024, the e-bike will be stationed at various locations across the Weston Park and Harcourt Road area, collecting oral histories and artefacts from Sheffield’s diverse communities: local residents of the Harcourt Road and Crookes / Broomhill neighbourhoods and the city’s Hong-Kong and wider diasporic communities.

The Mobile Museum will host drop-in creative activities, oral history interviews, an artefact amnesty and a changing Mobile-Museum display. C&G Artpartment will also produce a series of Harcourt Road family portraits alongside photographer and resident Laure Divisia.

We will then show the mobile museum, share the stories and present everything we’ve learned in a 6-week long exhibition at Bloc Projects in September 2024, which coincides with ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) Heritage Month in the UK as well as the 10-year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong’s democracy struggle.