Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is photographic portraiture for the opening of #PhotoPortraitPrize at the National Portrait Gallery 📸 We have chosen People on the Streets of Grangetown, Cardiff by Glenn Edwards from the collection of the Museum of Cardiff.

🎬 Join us this Thursday at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social, Cumbria, for a special screening of ‘See the Whole of Me’ animation and exhibition - inspired by the #maternity experiences of a diverse group of Cumbrian mums. tullie.org.uk/events/happy...

It's dramatic artwork for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange. What can be more dramatic than this sky? 🖼️ A Spate in the Highlands by Peter Graham from the collection of Manchester Art Gallery

Objects from RAMM’s collections are currently touring the country as part of an exhibition about colour @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social - To ensure they're not damaged during transport we make bespoke packaging for each object to keep them safe and protected on their long journey. #AskAConservator 🐧

It's spooky art for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween 👻🐈‍⬛🦇🎃 We have chosen 'The Haunt' by Laurence Stephen Lowry from the collection of The Lowry.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is autumn 🍂🍂 We are sharing 'Autumn' by Julian Cooper from the collection of the Laing Art Gallery.

We are getting spooky with ghosts and ethereal art for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for 'Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton's Lost Collection' now open at Leighton House 👻👻 We have chosen the aptly named 'Ghosts' by Grace Gardner from the collection of Falmouth Art Gallery.

It's celebrations and unveilings for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for The Harris Reopening - congratulations!🥳🥳 We have chosen 'Celebrations in Barbastro' by Campbell Sandilands from the collection of University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

We're very excited to be welcoming Kaffe Fassett back to the museum in January for a talk entitled An Eye for Colour. Tickets are now live - find out more and book 👇 tullie.org.uk/events/kaffe...

Colour: A season of shades, tints and tones opens THIS Saturday. Installation is well underway and it's looking even more vibrant than we hoped. 🌈 Come on down on Saturday and see the sea mouse, Lichtenstein, disco ball, Kandinsky, dragon, Marilyn Monroe, Hokusai and many more bursts of colour.

Café Tullie's new menu launches this Saturday 20 September. 👀 So we can get our systems ready and get all the new menus out, Café Tullie will close slightly early on Friday 19 September at 2pm. Back open as normal from 9.30am Saturday. We can't wait to see what you think!

Cumbrian schools may have gone back now, but our exhibition gallery will be filled with dinosaurs until Sunday 14 September. Adult dinosaur enthusiasts, now is your time.

A window at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social #WindowsOnWednesday 📷 #photography

26 August is #InternationalDogDay, which feels like a good day to come back to after the long weekend. Please enjoy these good boys and/or girls from across the collection. 1. Bronze Roman dog figurine 100-200 AD

An ancient handmade bowl with human feet to bring a smile to your face! The bowl tips slightly forwards as if offering its contents! Predynastic Egypt, Naqada period c. 3700-3450 BC. At the Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

Visitor travels from Denmark to see how her Roman basket measures up A few weeks ago we had a rather special visit from Lisbeth and Ole, who had travelled with their grandchildren from Denmark for an historic trip taking in Hadrian's Wall, Edinburgh and Lindisfarne. tullie.org.uk/2025/08/visi...

It's Welsh art for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange to celebrate Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection'. We have chosen 'Wales (Great Western Railway/ London, Midland and Scottish Railway poster artwork)' by Leonard Richmond from the collection of National Railway Museum.

Since July 2024, we have been running online and in person events to engage communities with Tagger. 🎉 This week we hit 1,000 acts of participation! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us and to The National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players for making it possible 🙌

We had a good long chat with Luis V. Rey palaeo-artist extraordinaire & curator of current exhibition Dinosaur rEvolution. You can watch or listen to the whole thing below 👇 tullie.org.uk/dinosaur-rev... #palaeoart #paleoart #dinosaurart #luisvrey #deinonychus

Enjoyed the new natural history display at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social today, including insects and reproductions of herbarium sheets (plus a real one in a special box to protect it from the light). 💚

News | Heritage at Risk Fund offers £15m to 37 local heritage sites in England – @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social and National Waterways Museum among the projects set to receive funding

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is religious art for The Barber Institute's online exhibition Fragments of Devotion 🌟 We have chosen 'York Minster' by K. D. Richards from the collection of York University.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is abstract and non-figurative art 🎨 We have chosen 'Accented Landscape, Series 2' by Lancelot Ribeiro from the collection of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.

The theme for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is film and cinema for 'May The Toys Be With You' at @lynn-museum.bsky.social 📽📽 We have chosen Oratio Obliqua by Walter Bayes from the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.

Our local museum @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social has a new dinosaur exhibition where the dinos have feathers and quite frankly Jurassic World is missing a trick.

It's self portraits for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange 🎨 We are sharing Self Portrait by Daphne Charlton from the collection of Burgh House & Hampstead Museum

Have you seen the PRISM 2025 exhibition in and around Tullie this week? 🖼🎨 It's been joyous having the Prism artists' work bringing some additional colour to our spaces. We'd love it if you could join Prism and us tomorrow evening (Friday 11 July) for a special celebration event 6-8pm.

It's summer for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange ☀🌺🌻🌊 We have selected an artwork from one of our favourite artists: Summer by Winifred Nicholson from the collection of Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is smells in art for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 at Watts Gallery. 🖼 Month of July: Hilda Smelling a Flower (drawing for the 'Chatto and Windus Almanack 1927') by Stanley Spencer from the collection of Stanley Spencer Gallery

Invite to to PiNC Cumbria “l Me Us” Film Screening, exploring Trans, NonBinary & Gender Non-Conforming People in Cumbria: Thursday 3 July, 6-9pm, Tullie Lecture Theatre, Castle St, Carlisle. Free Entry. For info, or to confirm attendance: [email protected] 01228 267247. Or just come along.

There's a brand new display in The Study in Old Tullie House for the first time in quite a while. Artists on display include Thomas Bushby, Charles Oakley, Donald Wilkinson, Lorna Graves, Paul Leith, Percy Kelly and David Hollins.

Less than a week until dinosaurs descend on Carlisle! 🦕🦖 Dinosaur rEvolution opens Saturday 28 June. tullie.org.uk/events/dinos...

Today is #InternationalPicnicDay! Even if you haven't enjoyed an al fresco lunch today, we hope you might like this group of ladies enjoying some outdoor sandwiches. Photographed at what was the Metal Box Recreation Ground in Rickerby Park, 1920s.

No acting on our part, we really are thrilled to bring you some more National Theatre Live screenings this summer. 🎭 On 7 July it's A Streetcar Named Desire. Starring Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby & Ben Foster. Tickets 👇 tullie.org.uk/events/natio...

The theme for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is the ocean for Sea State at Wolterton Park. We have chosen The Wave by Samuel John Lamorna Birch from the collection of The Whitworth🌊🌊

Fossils, dino drawing, quests and death metal. Our summer programme of dinosaur-inspired events involves all these and more. See what's on 👇 tullie.org.uk/dinosaur-sum... 📷Dinosaur rEvolution at Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand

We are close to home for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange with landscapes for Alfred Wainwright at The Armitt. We have chosen a Sheila Fell painting of a Wainwright from our collection - 'Cottages under Skiddaw' ⛰⛰

It's birds for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrating Birds: The art of Cornwall’s birdlife @penleehousegallery.bsky.social 🐦🕊🦅 We love the simplicity of this print - 'Birds' by Craigie Ronald John Aitchison from the collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

I went to this exhibition last week. Absolutely loved it. Made me want to try making my own rag rug. Here are some pics I took at Tullie House

For the first time, #WorldGothDay and Tullie work experience placements have aligned (or at least the first time we've noticed). So, of course we set our placement students the task of exploring the museum to find the most goth objects. 🖤 They chose:

It's sport for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrating 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social ⚽ We've chosen Tennis (triptych, left wing) by Eric Ravilious from Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 🎾🎾

Happy Wednesday! Which rag rug face are we feeling today?

What should go in here? (Wrong answers only)

Today is #WorldBeeDay so we made a bee out of books and now we're buzzing. 🐝

Fancy a teacake? 😋 New to Art UK – it's #WorkOfTheWeek time. 'Cake (18/25)' by Fiona Watson (b.1952) © the artist. 📷 @artatstirling.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/S4QbEKm

It's fabulous fashion for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange. We have chosen 'Miss Frederica Montagu of Ince Blundell' by Jean-Gabriel Domergue from the collection of Atkinson Art Gallery. That dress, the sleeves, the pattern - oh so fabulous!

Cath Blundell sacrificed her handmade skirt to contribute some all-important orange fabric to wonderful rag rug made by her mother Janet Heap (with help from the rest of the family). You can listen to Cath talk about this & more audio from the Cumbrian Rag Rugs here: tullie.org.uk/winifred-nic...

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is is art beyond the canvas for Beyond the Canvas: A Celebration of British Sculpture from @IngramCollat Rugby Art Gallery & Museum. We have chosen an artwork close to home - 'Red Sandstone Fox' by Gordon Young at Grizedale Sculpture.

News | @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social museum and art gallery welcomes visitors back after revamp – institution unveils welcome space, cafe and newly developed Carlisle Gallery

Congratulations @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social on tonight’s celebration! A tough programme done through a tough time and it’s looking amazing.