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Head of Collections and Principal Curator at @ScienceMuseum | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine

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Glyn Morgan
8 months
📌 I should probably go cold turkey but instead I am slowly winding down my engagement with this site. So, if you want to connect I suggest Bluesky is the best social to reach me on, other links are in my bio's linktree:
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Glyn Morgan
3 months
📢📣Job Klaxon 📣📢 - Anyone want to do my job? Curatorial Lead (Public Programmes), working with teams throughout @sciencemuseum to develop, deliver and share exhibitions, events and other wonderful things that celebrate science and our collections:
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Glyn Morgan
4 months
But really, follow me on Bluesky:
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Glyn Morgan
4 months
Popping back in to share some big news.
@MandHAdvisor
Museums + Heritage Advisor
4 months
News | Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) appoints new head of collections and principal curator.
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Glyn Morgan
6 months
📢 I'm doing a FREE online event on Thurs 16th Jan talking with Alexander Collins of the @WallaceMuseum about Science and Splendour at the court of Versailles, join us -
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @sciencemuseum: Merry Christmas from all of us at the Science Museum! 🎄. 📷 Image: Pineapple in a pot, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1733. 🎁 D….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @MatthewHowles: Meet King Louis XV’s rhino - the OG chonky boi! 🦏 👑 .#OnThisDay in 1769, he was sent from India to France as a gift for….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @holland_tom: To @sciencemuseum, there to visit the show on Versailles: Science & Splendour . H/t @issy_muir
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7 months
RT @sciencemuseum: Reviews are in for Versailles: Science and Splendour! ✨🔬✨ . Check out what critics are saying about our majestic new exh….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @FranceintheUK: Don’t miss the "Versailles: Science and Splendour" exhibition at the @sciencemuseum in London, where history meets innov….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
I spoke to #TheStandardPodcast about Cassini's Moon Map 🌝 Louis XV's Rhinoceros 🦏 and of course Marie Antoinette's Watch ⌚.
@theLDNstandard
The Standard
7 months
#TheStandardPocast. How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares?.- With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall. Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map.- With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles:.
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @theLDNstandard: #TheStandardPocast. How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares?.- With @theLDNstandard transport editor @R….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @Lucy_Worsley: What was our favourite thing in the fascinating new exhibition about science at Versailles which opened at the @sciencemu….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @theLDNstandard: #TheStandardPocast. How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares?.- With @theLDNstandard transport editor @R….
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
Topping off a very successful launch for 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' last night with a conference welcoming remarkable speakers to the.@sciencemuseum today.
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
RT @sciencemuseum: Versailles: Science and Splendour opens today! ✨ . Explore the opulence of Versailles and see the Palace in a new light….
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7 months
And @MarkBould3 (co-)edited two of them! So we know who the real productive person is.
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Glyn Morgan
7 months
Today I got my author copy of 'Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums', ed. by Kristin Alford. By sheer fluke that means I've had four books published this year to which I've contributed essays or chapters, which makes me seem far more productive than I feel.
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Glyn Morgan
8 months
Although I realised afterwards a better comparison point than giant pandas (so C20th!) would be Moo Deng Mania. But that's live radio for you.
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Glyn Morgan
8 months
Found myself on @BBCr4today this morning talking about this chonky boy. Rhino mania is alive and strong!.
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Glyn Morgan
8 months
I spoke to Vanessa Thorpe at The Observer about Louis XV's stuffed rhinoceros which is on display in all his chonky brilliance in 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' in the @sciencemuseum - opens Dec 12th:.
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