Pencil Portraits of the Past

History may have been written by the victors, but who was it drawn by?

This is your chance to add your own wrinkles to years gone by: sketch the great and the good of yore and your portrait will become part of the Museum of Objects and Origins’ collection.

There’s just one twist: you won’t know who you’re drawing.

All you’ll have is a physical description of a historical figure – and with that, you’ll enter a time before a camera lens could capture likenesses, when faces were made up of eyewitness accounts, word of mouth and hearsay as well as wonky teeth and dimples.

Selected portraits will also be displayed within the Museum.