Fab @northernballet.bsky.social production of #merlin Leeds Grand Theatre tonight. I totally want a pet dragon puppet... how cute! Image borrowed from @northernballet! #magic #merlin #ballet #dance #leeds #dragon #puppet

Shortlisting is utterly brilliant and utterly terrifying in equal measure. You get to 'meet' people who have done extraordinary things, but you want to consider everyone without bias and find the person who will thrive in the role. Noticed more AI applications. #recruitment #jobapplications #museum

Great morning at our whole staff team big morning Leeds City Museum. We built weird, wonderful, and thoughtful sustainable buildings and spaces with LEGO, painted mindfully with watercolours, talked all things fundraising.... #museum #staffwellbeing #wellbeing @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

Utterly captivating restoration-conservation of Landmark Trust Calverley Old Hall. Beautiful ways of mixing the old & modern together so you can read the spaces whilst giving the building new life. Fiendishly jealous of the gorgeous kitchen!! #heritage #holiday #leeds #bradford #yorkshire

And the @gem.org.uk conference 2025 @leedsmuseums.bsky.social is a wrap! This was Eve from Leeds Industrial Museum talking about our work with @nestauk.bsky.social @artfund.bsky.social Mini Wonders Early Years programme earlier today. #museumlearning #museum #culturallearning #GEMconference2025

Super proud to have @gem.org.uk annual conference @leedsmuseums.bsky.social over the next few days! We are go! #museumlearning #culturallearning #museum #conference

Soooo looking forward to the next few days welcoming everyone to @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Leeds City Museum!

Thank you @artukdotorg.bsky.social for a fabulous evening meeting friends old and new, talking about The Superpower of Looking and all things museum learning @leedsmuseumsandgalleries! #museumlearning #culturallearning #superpoweroflooking #museum #London #visualliteracy #visualliteracyeducation

We have a new, shiny Victorian police cell at Abbey House Museum just waiting for the objects to complete the police station! You'll soon be able to (pretend to) lock up your friends and family! Many thanks to ACE Wrought Iron Leeds for making it happen! @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

Sparkly raspberry ripple macaron birthday cake to celebrate being a double number this year!! #44 #birthdaycake #birthday #macaron #raspberry #happybirthday

Lovely things from the last couple of weeks... Carbis Bay.... #Cornwall #familyholiday #turquoise #sea #creamtea #jamfirst #bigskies

Really enjoyed Cornwall Museum today. The 80s exhibition had us (and other visitors) reminiscing... #museumlearning #culturallearning #museum #Cornwall #familyfun #familyholiday #mumgotmuseumwithdrawal

Afternoon, gorgeous! #Cornwall #familyholiday #breathe

Proud mum moment from the weekend. Thanks Rock School UK for another fab week, a great gig The Wardrobe, and the confidence you inspire in our lad. Absolute joy! #proud #rock #culturallearning #rockschool #family #music #musiclearning #Leeds #summer

Giggly evening at the new House of Fun exhibition at Wentworth Woodhouse. Giant cake by @bruceasbestos.bsky.social - will it eat you before you eat it?? #houseoffunww #museum #museumlearning #culturallearning #familyfun #familyactivities

Day in #Manchester hugging and stroking The Cat That Slept for a Thousand Years at Manchester Museum. Soooo lovely and great accessible thinking. #cat #sensory #purr #museum #museumlearning

Magical evening experiencing The Railway Children at Keighley and Worth Railway with @bradford2025.co.uk Train ride, performance on platforms, awesome cast, and pie for dinner. I think I want every theatrical production I see from now on to have a real life train! #steamtrain #railwaychildren

Tea party! #cake #tea #summer #friends #family

Thank you Leeds Heritage Theatres for a fab production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tonight at City Varieties! The youth theatre cast were superb! #charlieandthechocolatefactory #Leeds #theatre #youththeatre

New volunteer-led exhibition, Reel-ise, opened at Leeds Industrial Museum this afternoon. It focuses on film history in the city from women taking the lead to lost cinemas of Leeds and of course a nod to Louis Le Prince. museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQ20BFv/reel...

Lovely 24hrs away Swinton Estate as a belated wedding anniversary celebration. Afternoon tea, swimming, seafood that looked like it came out of the sea, view of the wandering deer at breakfast, and a sunny stroll through the walled garden. #anniversary #weddinganniversary #yorkshire #afternoontea

Been baking macaron shells this afternoon - look at their wonderful petite pied!! (little frilly feet to anyone else!) They are a brilliant, tasty, ridiculous faff! These are going to be rhubarb and custard flavour... in a couple of weeks, they are going in the freezer for now! #patisserie #macaron

ab afternoon experiencing The Herds at Pennington Flash as part of Manchester International Festival 2025 to highlight climate emergency. #climate #climateemergency #familyfun #theherds #puppets

Yesterday, we opened Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Abbey House Museum. So many fab authors, objects and chats! #museumlearning #museum #leeds #culture #mystery

The lad's first 'big gig' tonight, and what a lovely evening for @weezer.bsky.social @thepiecehall.bsky.social! #halifax #music #biggig #gig #firstgig

Thanks to Leeds Heritage Theatres for a fab Leeds Actors in Training performance of The Maladies at Seven, Chapel Allerton this evening! Great as always! #theatre #youngactors #chapelallerton #leeds

What needs to be in place to keep yourself and you colleagues safe when working with young adults in the area of mental health? We're on with our friends @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social on 8 July, 10-12:30. It's going to be a fab session - come along and find out! kidsinmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/t...

Our second annual conference is underway. A fantastic first panel shared their projects working to support mental health and wellbeing in participants, with top tips for caring for staff too... #GlamCares2025

And we're off! First awesome panel of the day about mental health and wellbeing @glamcares.bsky.social conference. #museum #museumlearning #culturallearning #conference #wellbeing #mentalhealth #glamcares @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

Ready and set for hosting the national GLAM Cares conference Leeds City Museum today. Looking forward to it! GLAM Cares is a network supporting colleagues working in community participation and wellbeing. #museumlearning #culturallearning #museum @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

A pleasure to be speaking this morning at the Westminster Education Forum about 'The next steps for creative education in England', specifically schools, highlighting our school membership as a model of partnership and #careersforall for skills development. And yep, I have a disco ball on my desk!

So excited that @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Abbey House Museum have been shortlisted for a @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social award! Congrats to everyone shortlisted! Woo hooo! #FamilyFriendlyMuseum #museumlearning #museum

Was Leeds Art Gallery this morning, wandering through Artspace. This incarnation has been made by Will Humphries and Spike Edwards from @leedsbeckett.bsky.social School of Arts Product Design course, based on the current exhibition 'To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates'.

Inspiring (and fun!) International Day of Play event with Child Friendly Leeds this morning. Welcomed by the joyeous Emma Bearman with giant bubbles... can every day start like that, please? #culturallearning #play #playful #museum @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

Good evening, #Leeds. You are gorgeous tonight!

Was Temple Newsam House earlier today for a Learning and Access team meeting, and saw the lovely new interpretation down the entrance corridor, AV and all! #museum #interpretation #historichouse #timeline #history #education

Utterly lovely, gorgeously green @nationaltrust.org.uk Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal after the rain yesterday.

Adventures in Paris #4... goodbye! Bye, lovely, retro apartment with awesome mid century furniture & a glow of lamps; a sunny stroll around Montmartre & an entertaining lunch watching everyone pose at the 'I love you' wall; & a last strong coffee and patisserie (deux macaron framboise et frasier).

Adventures in Paris #3, all about the food & art... gorgeous lunch Auberge Nicolas Flamel (yep, he was a real person, and it's the oldest house on Paris!) with gilded butter & il floatant, ice cream from Berthillon overlooking Notre Dame, juicing oranges, and a picnic in the park with patissiere...

Adventures in Paris part 2.... coming down from the top of the Eiffel Tower (too excited to film going up!)....

Adventures in Paris #1... lovely dinner, staff and atmosphere @bouillonchartier. M enjoying his escargot (he's had them before and does actually like them, slightly contrary to this pic!) #paris #france #halfterm #familyholiday #familyactivities #pudding #dessert #snails #escargot

Morris dancing in Skipton... this dance was about Kirkstall Abbey, the hoops showing the arches of the building! #skipton #leeds #kirstallabbey #morrisdancers #tradition #dance #northyorkshire @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

Utterly loving the VE day yarn bombing still up in Ripon today... woolly battenburg and knitted 'paper' chains, anyone? #ripon #northyorkshire #bunting #knitting #knittinginspiration #cakes #veday

Back for Day 2 of @museumsandheritage #mandhshow2025, and there are more fuzzy bugs! Woohooo! @leedsmuseumsandgalleries @mylearninglmg #museum #museumlearning #digital

Obligatory, annual member-of-the-team- bouncing-on-a-space-hopper photo!! #mandhshow2025 #mandhshow #museumlearning #museum @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

It's that time of year again, and the MyLearning.org fuzzy bugs and space hoppers are on tour again, and we are setting up and nearly ready for the #mandhshow2025! Looking forward to the next couple of days! Come and say hello, we're at D8! @leedsmuseums.bsky.social #mandhshow #fuzzybugsontour

Our fabulous conservation volunteers started at Abbey House today, supported by Conservator, Emma (up the ladder), and Asst Social History Curator, Nicola. Lots of deep cleaning & dusting, lots of skill sharing & chat, and some surprises...

Today was a day of secret, not-so-secret doors and stonework corners as we chat through developments at @leedsmuseumsandgalleries Abbey House. This door doesn't exist on the inside... #secretdoor #hiddendoor #museum #museumlearning #stonework #kirkstall #leeds

Kitchen redecoration coming along nicely! Wallpaper by bluebellgray drawing out the green-blue in Emily Sutton's beautiful alphabet print; gorgeous sustainable pippy oak table by Think Found; bench made by me years ago from an old art deco piano and upholstered with a rug by Abraham Moon...

Sunny @rhsharlowcarr tulips, poppies and bluebells! #tulip #bluebell #poppy #californianpoppy #harrogate #spring