New on the Hall blog: Research shows families want clarity, hands-on fun and inspiration — and the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social is stepping up to deliver by @koutsikag.bsky.social. www.seh.ox.ac.uk/blog/inspiring-families-at-the-ashmolean-what-makes-a-museum-visit-work-for-children

🌱 kewgardens.bluesky.social know how to party: live performance 👯, beautiful & thought provoking installations & good friends in the Temperate House, opening of #MaterialWorld, where art, fashion & plants weave a sustainable future.🌿

A journey through the universe begins with glittering stars, shimmering galaxies, fiery suns & silver moon @RMGreenwich.bsky.social, which unveiled the cosmos at the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year private view. #photography

📣 Don't miss chance to take part in One World Festival 2026! Join us in creating a lively celebration that highlights the diverse talents within our local community and forges connection with family audiences. Applications close 9am on Monday 15 September: ashmolean.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/20...

Edward Burra’s vibrant watercolours @tate.bsky.social capture the pulse of the 20th century, from nightlife and popular culture to the shadow of two wars. Fortunate t experience his first London retrospective with a dear colleague 😊. @visitlondon.bsky.social

Celebrating the Feast of the Holy Cross in Orthodox Churches across the world, first exalted in Jerusalem in 335 after the consecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the True Cross has since been a symbol of victory, hope & salvation #FeastOfTheCross

From yesterday 's visit to #NationalPortraitGallery , where 46 captivating portraits from around the world are displayed for the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award. ❤️

Encountered today @tate.bsky.social the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray, who translated her Anmatyerr knowledge of Country into powerful masterpieces. @visitlondon.bsky.social

Returning to #Kythera after 26 years #summerfun

This Sunday on BBC 6 Music, Mary Anne Hobbs will be talking to @thomyorke.wastehq.social and @stanleydonwood.bsky.social‬ at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social‬ about the new exhibition, This Is What You Get. Listen live this Sunday 17th August at 6pm BST waste.lnk.to/bbc.ashmolea... 📸 Iona Wolff

#MorethanHuman @designmuseum.bsky.social explores how design can serve the entire living world 🌏. 140+ works spanning art, architecture & tech, including 🐙 octopus-friendly sculptures & 🌊seaweed installations. A bold rethinking of design in the age of climate crisis.

#Millet: Life on the Land @nationalgallery.bsky.social provided glimpses of 19C rural France through the eyes of Jean-François Millet, the painter who inspired Van Gogh, Degas & Pissarro, and who could empathise with the people who spent their life working on the land.

A great summer party at the lovely @UniofOxford.bsky.social Botanic Gardens with colleagues from @morethanadodo.bsky.social @pitrivers.bsky.social @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibs.bsky.social @HSMOxford.bsky.social

Some reflections from my stay at the Monastery in Essex www.linkedin.com/posts/ginako...

#AbstractErotic @thecourtauld.bsky.social Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse & Alice Adams explode sculpture with surreal forms, raw materials & feminist power. A captivating selection of Bourgeois’s 1960s drawings reveals how her dreamlike, abstract forms shaped & mirrored her practice.

A treat #HaywardGallery #YoshitomoNara delves into rebellion, solitude, freedom and spirit, through 150+ drawings, sculptures & paintings. Each reflects deep emotions, alongside influences from home, nature, solitude & punk.

#dresscodes kensingtonpalace.bsky.social explores how royal fashion shapes power, identity & change. Enjoy outfits from Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess Margaret, Vivienne Westwood alongside, new designs by young producers. #RoyalStyle #FashionHistory

It was such a wonderful day - many thanks to our teams for making it happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

What a couple of days 🧠💗 grateful too faculty & participants for the deep dive into regulation, risk & innovation at the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social UK Socrates Seminar. Inspiring sessions, creative outputs & hopeful discussions @blavatnicschool.bsky.social @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #AspenUK

#Keifer "was not overly interested in the emotional aspect of #VanGogh’s work or in his unhappy life. What impressed [him] was the rational structure, the confident construction of his paintings.’ Enjoy both artists @royalacademy.bsky.social

First visit to #AlbionBarn&Fields as part of our annual @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Board away day ;a great location to think collectively about our identity & our future 😊

#DesignandDisability #V&A is a radical rethinking of who shapes culture and celebrates the powerful impact of Disabled, Deaf & neurodivergent creatives on design, from the 1940s to today. #DesignJustice #DisabilityCulture

Do you have a spare 5 minutes today? Complete our short survey & we’ll enter you into a prize draw to win £100. Share your thoughts at: online1.snapsurveys.com/54s8pw

Third short work visit to #Glasgow, and once again, without a doubt I am leaving the city with the fondest of impressions; everyone I encountered in the streets, the train, the museums, the hotel was very welcoming, very friendly & very inclusive @visitscotland.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Focusing on women's art #mallgalleries annual show of #SocietyWomenArtist and on @jennysavilleart.bsky.social @NPGLondonbsky.social ❤️ #paintings

Thinking, laughing & learning together with my @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social inspirational 🌟heads of teams @holburn.bsky.social (🙏🏽Chris & Sophie for your time & insights) @victoriaartbath.bsky.social @romanbathsbath.bsky.social

#Encaenia is one of my favourite days @UniofOxford.bsky.social - honouring exceptional individuals & enjoying 🍓🍓🍓& cream at @StHildas.bsky.social with lovely colleagues 🤗

🍃Cooling down with 500 years of books & botany @britishlibrary.bsky.social #Unearthed exhibition; encountering from Darwin’s plant-collecting box to guerrilla gardening zines, and finding out about gardening’s radical roots. 🌿

Good to reconnect with friends & meet new colleagues @aimuseums.bsky.social... and did I mention the lively volunteer tour @phdockyard.bsky.social or the sunset?

#TheMikado GLO's 10th production of the classic operetta reimagines the tale in a quirky English car factory. Directed by Richie Scott,and included lovely MD. #TheMikado #GilbertandSullivan

Lovely private view @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social of Ashmolean Now #DaphneWright: Deep-Rooted Things exploring still life, memory & identity; featuring Sons & Couch, a striking life-size sculpture of the artist’s children, created in agreement and collaboration- moving & personal.

Marina Tabassum’s A Capsule in Time, the 2025 #SerpentinePavilion is a poetic interplay of light, movement & memory. Rooted in place, climate & culture, her kinetic design draws on South Asia’s Shamiyana tents; inviting connection, celebration & stillness. #Architecture @SerpentineUK.bsky.social

Happy #Pentecost 🔥in the icon of Pentecost we see the fulfillment of the promise of the Holy Spirit, sent down upon the Apostles to teach the nations and baptise them in the name of the Holy Trinity. We also reopened our Cathedral's small museum @visitlondon.bsky.social

Stayed local this 🌧️ afternoon for #LondonGalleryWeekend enjoying new & established 🎨 artists @lissongallery.bsky.social , Palmer Gallery & Patrick Heide Contemporary Art @visitlondon.bsky.social

#EdmunddeWaal's poetic, poignant words followed by @mertoncollegechoir.bsky.social, #BetteZhaoyiYan, #YuchenZhang & improvising collective responding to audiences & artefacts, while exploring themes of brokeness & fragments @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social in collaboration with #CulturalProgramme

#VAEastStorehouse Truly amazing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Congratulations to the whole team. You have made us all, working in the sector, proud 🎉 🎉🎉

Come & tell us what you think #Rome #history #RomanEmpire

Spent a restorative day #KewGardens soaking in the lush spring scents🌷; birdsong 🪶in the air & nature’s beauty everywhere. Loved revisiting the Power of Trees #ShirleySherwoodGallery & beloved colleagues & seeing the 'Of the Oak'. Miss having the gardens as my office 🌳🦚🌲

A 🧢tourist at home; enjoying the poppies installations #TowerOfLondon, the redisplay of the Crown 👑 Jewels, areas of the Tower not visited before, and for good measure, a Yeoman Warder's tour 🏰🪨 #HRPpalaces ❤️ #history ❤️ #architecture @visitlondon.bsky.social

Ancient India @britishmuseum.bsky.social traces 2000 years of Hindu, Jain & Buddhist art; covering ancient nature spirits, cross-cultural exchanges & the evolution of sacred imagery across Asia through hundreds of items #exhibitions

Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict @I_W_M powers survivors, informs visitors, and aims to contribute towards meaningful change in the topic. Very powerful content, displayed with sensitivity & thoughtfulness

For our new @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Rome galleries, I was asked to bring to life a Roman woman of Hellenic heritage. Speaking with a Greek accent was fun (I've been training since age 2, after all 😂), but what struck me: her ancient words ring so true today. 🎉V Jenner, P Roberts & others 🎊

Sunday afternoon visiting #Cartier @vamuseum.bsky.social - unsurprisingly, a dazzling exhibition of historic 💎gems, iconic designs ⌚, that reflect the company's artistic 👑craftsmanship and simple & timeless 📿 designs from the early 1900s to today.

What is 🏠 - a place, a feeling, an idea? The Genesis Exhibition @tate.bsky.social sky #DoHoSuh: Walk the House, explores, identity, memory & belonging through fabric, sculpture & immersive installations. Powerful. ❤️ #art

What a day - very proud of @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Visitor Experience Management & terrific GLAM colleagues shortlisted/highly praised for #UniversityofOxford VC Awards, while presenting & being energised #UMG conference. Revisiting to @kettlesyard.bsky.social was a joy 💕

The #rosegarden at Regents Park is starting to bloom 🧡

Going to the #NationalGallery is like going home - delighted to be reunited with 🖼️'friends'🎨, that take my breath away... every single time... since my childhood. Congratulations 🎊🎊🎊

From the beautiful evening @stedmundhall.bsky.social Charter formal dinner; celebrating our history - teaching undergrads since the 1200s, chartered as a college in 1957. The last medieval hall standing, and still inspiring students & fellows today. #TeddyHall #Oxford

An exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings of the Oskar Reinhart Collection at #TheCourtauld - a unique opportunity to see some of its masterpieces – works by #Goya, #Monet, #Renoir, #VanGogh, #Picasso, #Cezanne & others.

Glamorous 🥂