On #WorldBookDay you can find out more about #Scotland's #printers on our website
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On #WorldBookDay you can find out more about #Scotland's #printers on our website
👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2
A group of people stand around an interpretation panel in a museum exhibition hall.
Engagement Officer Janiece Ndoye discusses her work with a team of Community Researchers from diverse backgrounds to explore & interpret the colonial links of objects at Summerlee Museum www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/blog/decolon... Funded by @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk & @northlanarkshire.gov.uk
A woman removes a cardboard box from a long set of shelves in a strong room.
Check out our updated slate of free online events with spaces still available!
Upcoming events cover data migration, records of traumatic histories, manorial records, heritage science and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Book now to avoid disappointment!
A large crowd of people standing on a frozen curling pond watching players in action. In the foreground a picnic is laid out and a dog has to be restrained from chasing a curling stone.
We are enjoying the #WinterOlympics #curling but can't help feeling the players could work on their attire after seeing this painting by John Levack
It shows a curling match near #Airdrie in 1857. Spot the coal mines that partly funded the players' wealth www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
Two young people sit at a computer monitor watching something on the screen. Both people have their phones and notepad in front of them.
Keen to share your thoughts on our 3-year digital capacity building strategy?
We’ve commissioned consultant Simon Wilson to run an independent series of focus group discussions on Our Digital Century and Novice to Know-How!
Find out more and sign up for a session: simonpwilson.com/client-area/...
There is still time to apply to be our new Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums!
Closing date is this Tuesday, 17 February
Two weeks to go | Make a proposal for a session at this year's conference 📢
Ahead of MA Conference 2026: Museums Connecting Communities, we’re looking for proposals for bold, innovative sessions that bring us together to find solutions to the critical issues of the day.
Got an idea? Submit now 👇
North Lanarkshire Council Museums are looking for a full-time Site Supervisor
The post is based at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge, closing date is 17 February
A photograph of a training exercise in a mock-up mine at Coatbridge Mines Rescue. 5 men in miner's gear with helmets and breathing apparatus tend to an unconscious man on the ground.
New on our museum collections website is a 1st hand account of the operation to rescue 135 miners trapped underground following the 1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery Disaster
It was written by James Lillie of the Coatbridge Mines Rescue Brigade www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/rescue...
We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...
We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...
A semi abstract oil painting of a frothy sea with a lighthouse in the distance and a moon above in the dark sky.
This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is on the theme of light & dark
This is 'Sea and Moon' by James Downie Robertson (1931-2010) who studied & later taught at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social
Our friends @scotindustria.bsky.social are holding their Burns Doo & AGM at the Beechwood Scout Hall, Stirling on 31 January
£15 a head and all welcome. They will be offering discounted memberships for non-members who attend. See the SIHS Facebook page www.facebook.com/groups/11666...
A detail of the side of a double decker tram which has orange paint below the lower windows and a band of green paint above. Immediately above the lower windows are narrow illuminated glass signs with red lettering reading, 'CORPORATION TRANSPORT'.
An oblique view of one end of the tram which is painted cream, green and orange. There are thre lights in the front and arrow-shaped indicators. On the front of the top deck are route and destination indicators reading, '15', 'COATBRIDGE' and 'FOOTBALL MATCH'.
Love to see the new illuminated 'Corporation Transport' lettering on 1930s Glasgow tramcar 1245 which is being restored by our amazing volunteers at Summerlee Museum
1245 was the last Glasgow tram to run before the power was turned off. See the Glasgow's Last Tram Group website glasgowslasttram.net
Our friends @earlyengines.bsky.social are holding the 4th International Early Engines Conference in Bristol from 22 to 24 March
See their website for the latest news www.earlyengines.org
A colourful oil painting of two figures moving hay with forks. The hay is represented by streams of white, yellow and red colour. The background is rendered in contrasting blues and greens.
This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates bold and colourful art
This is a favourite from our collection, 'Turn Hay' by #Motherwell artist Millie Frood artuk.org/discover/art...
An oil painting of a mid-1800s industrial scene with bushes in the foreground. Flames from two rows of conical blast furnaces illuminate the night sky.
It’s Heritage Treasures Day. My #HeritageTreasure is CR Stanley’s spectacular 1850s painting of Gartsherrie Iron Works in Coatbridge
It’s part of the @mininglandscapes.bsky.social Summerlee West Circular tour www.mining-landscapes.org/route/117 @heritagefunduk.bsky.social @nlheritage.bsky.social
A new story on our website explores the legacy of the Aitchison's of Rochsolloch and their links to slavery on the island of Grenada. The Aitchison's accrued this tainted wealth and reinvested it at home, leaving behind a troubling legacy which we can still see and feel today.
tinyurl.com/vjdu9t3r
Head and shoulders portrait photograph of an old man with white hair and moustache. He wears a dark jacket and waistcoat with a light shirt and patterned tie.
Born #OnThisDay Sir John Craig (1874-1957)
Joining the Motherwell steelmakers David Colville & Sons as an office boy just before his 14th birthday Craig rose to become Managing Director & Chairman of the Colvilles group
His last task was overseeing the early construction of Ravenscraig Steel Works
An oil painting of a woman standing in a green smock and resting her right arm on a wooden stand that has a bust of a child on it. Her right hand holds a sculpting tool while her left hand rests on her hip. She has short, curly, grey hair and wears spectacles.
This week's #OnlineArtExchange celebrates sisterhood & so here is a portrait from our collection of sculptor Aniza McGeehan by her sister Jessie M McGeehan artuk.org/discover/art...
Born in Airdrie the sisters studied at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social & then in Paris
@artukdotorg.bsky.social
A view of a shoreline with beach on the west coast of Scotland. The mountains of Rhum are pictured in light blue with white clouds around them.
This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange focuses on the natural world
Here is a beautiful Scottish scene to cheer us all up on a dull December day, 'Rhum & Sanna Bay' by @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social graduate Tom Hovell Shanks (1921-2020)
Love these portraits - and wonderful writing!
A hand-painted bronze plaque in a wooden frame. It shows a young woman standing in a long dress in a doorwa with a suit of armour to the right and and blue and gold cloth behind her. She is reading a book which she holds in both hands.
We're taking this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme of dramatic art very literally AND shamelessly pandering to #swifties with this wonderful cast bronze plaque of Ophelia in front of the Arras in Hamlet. It's from Colzium House #Kilsyth artuk.org/discover/art... #taylorswift
A photo of men lifting chains overlaid with yellow text reading: STICK CONFERENCE: ‘Narratives and Memories of Industrial Work and Heritage’ 31 October 2025. Stirling’.
There’s still time to sign up for our conference on the theme of Narratives and Memories of Industrial Work and Heritage
It’s on Friday 31 October @ The Engine Shed in Stirling stickssn.org/events/
It will run again next Wednesday, the 29th but there aren't currently plans for more dates
A photograph of women at work in a cotton mill (Airdrie Cotton Works) in the early 1900s.
Have you heard about our Decolonising North Lanarkshire's Museums Collections project?
Join us at Summerlee Museum at 2pm tomorrow (Wednesday) to find out about our collections' colonial links & how we are addressing them north-lanarkshire-council-museums.arttickets.org.uk/summerlee-mu...
An almost monochrome oil painting of a cloudy night sky with toward the top left the hazy glow of the moon, which is large in the picture.
This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is haunted by ghosts & ethereal art
We can imagine Bet Low's 'Moon and Clouds' above a graveyard at the start of a Hammer horror film!
artuk.org/discover/art...
