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Solidarity to fellow NT colleagues this evening

10.07.2025 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One of JMW Turner's first paintings rediscovered after 150 years The oil painting fell

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07.06.2025 06:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Art Fund to launch £5m project for UK museums to share their collections ‘UK’s largest ever collaborative touring project’ will involve institutions pooling resources and expertise

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08.05.2025 05:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A huge shout out to everyone in organisations who is not valued or seen but who do good work, without them their customers would have a less rich experience and not be inspired. #Museums

07.05.2025 20:51 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den Seeing Bacon’s stunning depiction of his lover Peter Lacy hanging in a reincarnation of the watering hole where his skeletal friends would drink, stagger and cackle was a fleeting yet unforgettable ex...

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01.03.2025 07:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A grey brick wall and tarmac ground with some weeds. Two frogs? are in the foreground.

A grey brick wall and tarmac ground with some weeds. Two frogs? are in the foreground.

Spring is on its way and love is in the air on the morning walk #spring #walkies #loveisintheair #frog

20.02.2025 11:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Somerset parking: Scrapping free car parks could 'frighten away shoppers' Businesses are worried potential changes to parking charges could reduce footfall.

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20.02.2025 06:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tiny Portland community art gallery created in beehive box A therapist and a social worker create a miniature community gallery in a beehive box.

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20.02.2025 06:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Crumbling English museums get £270m funding from government Some venues said they were at risk of

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20.02.2025 06:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Major show to celebrate UK’s forgotten female trailblazer of abstract art Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and war

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27.12.2024 08:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Artwork to explore why Elizabeth I would not marry Robert Dudley Exclusive: Artwork offering fresh perspective on queen’s relationship with courtier to go on display at Kenilworth Castle

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27.12.2024 08:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽

Urinal • St Fagans Museum 🚽

This cast iron gents' urinal dates from the late 19th-century and was originally situated in Llanwrtyd Wells.

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#Wales #History

19.11.2024 22:42 👍 164 🔁 29 💬 16 📌 1
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Snowed in? What a good time to think about entering the Museums + Heritage Awards... 👀❄️

Here are just a few of last year's winners! Join the Hall of Fame by starting your entry here: mandhawards.awardsplatform.com

@migrationmuseumuk.bsky.social

19.11.2024 11:43 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In case you haven't heard – Medieval Women: In Their Own Words is open! *cue medieval fanfare*

Step into the Middle Ages and explore the lives of women both well-known and long-forgotten, and their stories of creativity, courage, and resilience: bit.ly/BLMedievalWo...

P.S. Members go free!

18.11.2024 17:40 👍 553 🔁 129 💬 11 📌 17
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If you want proof of how cool we are, this is how we store our 35mm slides. 😎

19.11.2024 10:41 👍 221 🔁 25 💬 14 📌 4
A ginger coloured dog lying on a floral print sofa

A ginger coloured dog lying on a floral print sofa

The ginger hooligan is not up for the outside today. I'm with him on that! It's soggy and cold here, no snow in Somerset. #cockerspaniel

19.11.2024 11:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Louise Thompson <br>

4 R's of trauma-informed practice from Louise Thompson, museum consultant at Mindful Museums mindfulmuseums.org:
Realising: how common trauma is
Recognising: the way it can affect people
Responding: by making changes or supportive actions
Resist: re-traumatising people
#Museums2024

13.11.2024 16:24 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Some interesting provocations in the session on inequalities in museum attendance. Looking forward to some interesting debate #Museums2024

13.11.2024 14:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Discussions on AI are rather tiring according to Badger #Museums2024

13.11.2024 13:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm not afraid to say AI scares me a bit, but im rather curious about it ##Museums2024

13.11.2024 12:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Powerful and emotional experience hearing about the Uncertain Futures project. Identity, empowering, being visible, social cohesion and agency beyond the project....wow 💕 #Museums2024

13.11.2024 11:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A ginger coloured dog with a grey and red background

A ginger coloured dog with a grey and red background

My conference dog moment is less stylish and far more interested in naughtiness 😂 Badger is currently fast asleep 😴

13.11.2024 10:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lines of bushes with trees and clouds in background

Lines of bushes with trees and clouds in background

My first #Bluesky post and a moment of reflection on morning walk. These moments are joyful and looking forward to day two @museumsassociation.bsky.social #Museums2024

13.11.2024 10:24 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0