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Sharing stories about museum collections at https://t.co/uXOo94yxcu Sign up for our email digest https://t.co/mQsQJuh2Y7. For our museum sector support work see @Culture24
Brighton, UK
Joined April 2008
A new Museum Crush Digest has landed with a peek inside the @rncmlive museum, social history archive discoveries in textiles and railways, Brian May's Stereoscopic collection and Margaret Agnes Rope's stained glass https://t.co/GTAKaT6ETw
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At last! A new @MuseumCrush email digest heads out later this week with loads of tempting museum objects and stories - like this Tibetan human thigh bone flute from the irresistibly veiled museum of @rncmlive Subscribe https://t.co/n7nTaJ8SS2
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This #InternationalWomensDay, we'd like to recognise the female authors, scribes, artists, patrons, mothers, widows, daughters, sisters, whose manuscripts & documents have survived to this day. We've been digitising over 300 of these books 👇 https://t.co/qdXq9vSgoj Here goes:
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@MaidstoneMuseum have an exhibition on the Kentish Hooden Horse and other animal guising traditions. Check it out! Featuring lots of great art and artefacts from @Ben_Edge_Art and @LibraryFolklore runs until June!
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We have a unique and exciting opportunity to acquire Nightingale’s Wheelchair. This important object will allow us to visibly portray Nightingale's battle with her health and her achievements. Find out more & donate - UK(+): https://t.co/1SHMGOcBqn US: https://t.co/GEgygTpQzh
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Check out this letter in poesy written by Robert Burns was re-discovered in the collection of @PaisleyMuseum in 2016 and now appears every January for Burns night #BurnsNight ➡️ https://t.co/pR1cV1m9cN 📷 Sir, Yours this moment I unseal. © Paisley Museum
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Forget that today is supposedly #BlueMonday we're taking part in @samaritans #BrewMonday and have planned a day of tweets & wellbeing activities to brighten your day. Morning #MuseumTwitter ☕️ do you have a #MuseumMug or teapot you'd like to show off?
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Bring in the Christmas spirit with some freshly baked gingerbread #GingerBreadHouseDay ❄ This doll's house was made by Edgar Yarwood, a former Tank Officer in WW1. Chronic pain resulted in him seeking solace in the miniature world of model making. Share your creations below ⬇
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This week's Museum Crush Digest sees the launch of our Patreon Page https://t.co/4wOTfqKV3k - we're fundraising to keep going right now! Plus there's Art Deco dolls house furniture, naughty Fuseli, Folklore costume and museum dioramas https://t.co/u3OvXqiya8
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During my PhD I’ve been lucky enough to take up two work placements in the GLAM sector. My second was a placement with BT Archives where I catalogued the Electrophone collections, if you’d like to hear more take a look at my @MuseumCrush article below 👇 https://t.co/QApVMYbi3t
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Natasha Kitcher, Doctoral Researcher working with the BT Archive, on the Victorian-era gadget that was a precursor to live-streaming Last January I swapped my university office for a desk in British...
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📷Castle Howard Circle of Pyramids by Kyte Photography. Resurrecting Ancient Egypt: A Monumental Yorkshire Journey is at Scarborough Art Gallery until March 18 2023.
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Did you know Yorkshire was obsessed with Ancient Egyptian architecture?! This grave marker, in the shape of an Ancient Egyptian pyramid, marks the resting place of the astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth ⤵ 👀➡ https://t.co/gEIJIHh1q0
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Does anyone recognise any of these lost interiors in Edinburgh ⤵? Ron O’Donnell was drawn to photograph old-fashioned, cluttered, and run-down interiors from the 1970s onwards 📸 Read more here ➡ https://t.co/w1WzQu5sjx
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This 3,500 year old dish is just one of almost 300 objects on loan from @BoltonLMS featured in our #Tut22 exhibition Amazingly two halves of the dish were discovered and brought together a few years ago. Read more in this @MuseumCrush article https://t.co/xrAWUgH9hK
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What a lovely review and feature by @MuseumCrush on our exhibition 📷#ResurrectingAncientEgypt designed and curated by Prof #joannfletcher @ImmortalEgypt and on loan from the very generous @BarnsleyMuseums 👍
“It really is incredible...Yorkshire has more pyramids than any other part of England, the oldest obelisk erected in Britain, and the only full-sized replica of an Egyptian temple in the country” - @ImmortalEgypt 👇 https://t.co/3vgWWgcTDe
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This c1750s dress is absolutely stunning. It’s embroidered with silver thread, giving it a gorgeous glitter-y effect - it also makes it quite heavy to wear! You can see this beauty at our Christmas exhibition, opening on the 19th Nov🎄
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Sign up for the Museum Crush digest which is a regular email bringing incredible objects from the wonderful world of museums to your inbox. Just click the link ➡ https://t.co/J0Y8EPDQX4
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In Scotland and Northern England, #Halloween was known as Nut-Crack Night. Couples threw hazelnuts or chestnuts into a fire to predict their romantic future ❤️ If the nut burned quietly they would be happily united. If it hissed and crackled an unsettled future was in store 💔
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Kale stalks were used to predict future romances, as described by Robert Burns in his poem #Halloween published in 1785. The length and shape of the stalk were said to represent your future partner’s height and figure, whilst the amount around the roots represented wealth.
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This is a Celtic Halloween mask⤵️This mask, dating from the first half of the 20th century, is made from a piece of cloth from a flour sack. Used to celebrate Halloween in Ireland, where the holiday has its roots in the Celtic season festival of Samhain. Follow @HornimanMuseum
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