Kirsty Parsons

Our new exhibition ‘Showtime!’ at the #CharlesDickensMuseum has now been open a week! 🙌 Time for some instal reminiscing #exhibition #theatre #adaptations

Artistic licence that, accessioning backlogs in museums and archives are not a thing…obviously…never…

Feel very seen…

When your reality becomes art 😂
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Visited the only free #museum in #Vienna.

1. Inn sign, about 1700-50. #Hedgehogs were common inn signs, likely due to folk tales of them feeding grapes to their young.

2. Fanny Elbler’s mechanical wings from her role as the lead in the #ballet ‘Sylphide’, 1840.

Really love the way the #PostalMuseum has tried to decode archival documents for visitors in their new exhibition ‘Voices of Resistance: Slavery & Post in the Caribbean’

You have to split a scone but you don’t have to share 😂

Bayeux Tapestry to return to British Museum on loan after 900 years Bayeux Tapestry will be shown at the British Museum, which will lend treasures to Normandy museums.

BIG EMBROIDERY-NOT-A-TAPESTRY NEWS! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beyond the bonnets: Jane Austen’s working women finally get their place in the spotlight Exhibition looks at housekeepers, maids and governesses who ‘enable the lives of the heroines and heroes’

I'm really so pleased that ordinary, working women's stories are being integrated back into the historical record. Their lives are interesting too, but part of me despairs when every Georgian woman's story has to be told in connection with Jane Austen.
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River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close - Museums Association Venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building

News | River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close – venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building

Looking forward to MERL's Romany and Traveller Heritage Day on Saturday! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...

Vacancy Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Happy Birthday to the Charles Dickens Museum, June 2025 From my first visit … 100 Years is certainly something to celebrate, so on Monday 9 June I am looking forward to heading to the Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street to celebrate with members o…

Tomorrow the Charles Dickens Museum is free all day to celebrate their 100th Birthday 🎉 On the blog I have been looking back at their 1925 opening and recalling my own visits over the years. tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/h...