Lucy May Maxwell
@lucymaymaxwell
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Museum Project Officer @SuffolkCC @Suffolk_Museums Previously worked on redevelopment of @I_W_M Holocaust Galleries and the American Air Museum @IWMDuxford
Stowmarket/Ipswich/London
Joined June 2011
It’s not every day you get to celebrate wins with both your past and present museum worlds - a special night! @I_W_M @IpswichMuseums @AspireBlackSuff
The #MandHAwards 2022 Winners! Huge congratulations! Amazing projects, inspiring work, talented people.
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We’re taking part in The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge (3–10 Dec) where you can double your donation to the Food Museum! 🎄 Every donation you make during the Challenge will be doubled, supporting our mission to preserve heritage, educate, and inspire https://t.co/bkfR2EUpIo
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Calling museum geeks. We've googled, telephoned, checked archives, newspaper reports, and spoken to specialists, but after a year of collecting data on closed museums in the UK we're officially stuck on some venues. Can you help? Have a look at our list:
mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk
Can you help us with information about any of these museums? We want to know what happened to the collections after closure, and what the building was subsequently used for, if anything. If you have...
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New on the site: Gerta Regensburger, who came to Britain in 1939 via a Belgium #Kindertransport. "I have no feelings & not many memories. I’m not a very retrospective person. It always amazes me that so many people remember every—cross every 't' & dot every 'i'. Not me…" 1/13
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Public art collections are not an asset, they are a living legacy owned in common for current and future generations.
Birmingham City Council owns an artwork collection valued at almost half a billion pounds, a BBC investigation has discovered. The scale of the council-owned art collection has also revealed. Full story - https://t.co/s6jVeqqt4v
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Obituary | Aneesa Riffat, 1978-2024 Particularly remembered for her work with Holocaust survivors, Aneesa was a powerful asset to the sector with a passion for emancipation, learning and transformation. Read: https://t.co/Tvrz0B87nR
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The elegant pleasure grounds of the early 18th century Abbot's Hall in Suffolk have been listed at Grade II. 🙌 Now home to @FoodMuseumUK, the gardens contain an ornamental canal, a walled garden, and the remains of a medieval camping ground.
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As April prepares her green traffic light, Suffolk Museums' programme of events is set to go! There's a great range of events scheduled for an early Easter and Springtime. Find out more here: https://t.co/12iSylTmYN
#museums #suffolk #Easter
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Booted up my 16-yr-old high school laptop to open a WWII database that lives on a CD, works only on Windows 98, & exists no where else. The creator is dead. Need help to save the data from technological oblivion. At stake are stories of 5k airmen who fought Hitler from sky. (1/4)
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What I learned about culture wars & how I responded. See link below: @MuseumsAssoc
https://t.co/IvHrZr0gB5
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The UK has a new Food Museum, the only one wholly dedicated to connecting us to food and where it comes from. Tune in at 12:30 to hear how @FoodMuseumUK is building an exciting programme to reconnect visitors to growing, processing & cooking
bbc.co.uk
How can the UK's new food museum tell the story of food, past, present and future?
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Listen in to @BBCRadio4's The Kitchen Cabinet, recorded at the Food Museum! 📻 Hear Jay Rayner, Dr Annie Gray, Jeremy Pang, Melek Erdal and Tim Anderson answering culinary queries from our brilliant audience 🎤 Sat 5 Aug, 10:30am! Listen on catch-up - https://t.co/tfc4B41JwC
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Primadonna is a festival for people who love books, ideas and inspiration! 📖 It’s a weekend of talks, workshops, performances, and fun happening Friday 28 – Sunday 30 July at the Food Museum 🎉 Tickets start from £15 - find out more and book: https://t.co/mrudzLRNeD
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott MBE (22 November 1929 – 16 June 2023). Below, James Bulgin, Head of Public History at IWM reflects on his life. © Frederic Aranda <1/4>
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Foodies of #Suffolk @BBCRadio4’s The Kitchen Cabinet is coming to @FoodMuseumUK in Stowmarket on 28 June so if you have a culinary question that you’d like answered by host @jayrayner1 and the panel then apply for the last few tickets remaining here: https://t.co/u7cIuta0av
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Thanks to everyone who attended today’s AfSM AGM. Here’s to many more years of working together! #museums #suffolk #collaboration
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We're excited to be hosting @PrimadonnaFest: for people who love books & ideas & interesting conversations & music in the sunshine & good food in a field & comedy and cabaret & workshops for the mind, body & soul ☀️ Find out more & get tickets: https://t.co/yhAYiTLpsd
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Biodiversity is essential for human life and a flourishing countryside. 💚 But sadly, climate breakdown is accelerating the decline of nature. 📉 This #InternationalBiodiversityDay, take a look at the nature-based solutions that can make a difference. 👇 https://t.co/u6WDnIIlRS
cpre.org.uk
Biodiversity is essential for human life and a flourishing countryside. It’s time to take care of it. We hear from Mair Floyd-Bosley on why.
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"It's important for museums to amplify the issues of our day and biodiversity loss is a critical issue." Jenny Cousins, Director at The Food Museum. @FoodMuseumUK & @SSGreatBritain win Sustainable Project of the Year at the @MandHShow 👉 https://t.co/4Le8t8XArY
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We are sorry to hear of the death of our interviewee Ruth Danson, born Ruth Boronow in Breslau in 1924. Ruth came to Britain with her mother in 1939. The photos show Ruth during our interview, 2016 + with her grandparents, mother, father & brother Klaus, Breslau, ca1926. 1/4
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My time in Antarctica has come to an end. An important message, please read ❄️👇🏻 🧵1/n
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