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Bradford Industrial Museum has been allowing young people to explore world collections at a series of exhibitions making up part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The museum's Precious Cargo programme was inspired by world collections in the Yorkshire region and looked into how objects, ideas and customs have found their way across the world to become part of the region's heritage.

Mahum Sammar, 16, got involved with the project because she had always had a passion for art: "I was especially interested in textiles so when I heard about the different forms of art we would learn about I thought it would be great to be a part of. It allows people my age to get involved in creative things."

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