How do you judge whether an exhibition is successful?
Well, one criteria is to look at the Visitors Book. How many people have signed it?
In less than a week over 100 people have written in the one for the Children of Craig-y-nos exhibition in Swansea museum.
This is yet more evidence, if it was still needed, that the project has touched the heart of the community, for it has opened up a subject, once taboo, dealing with nearly 40 years of lost Welsh history, how children were locked away.
Roy Harry cut the ribbon yesterday morning in Swansea museum officially opening The Children of Craig-y-nos exhibition.
An ex-patient himself he made a very moving speech and dedicated the exhibition to those children who never made it- "the lost children of Craig-y-nos".
It reduced one museum official to tears.
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
