#PuzzleMonday 'Landscape with figures' by Charles Henry Schwanfelder 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #BlueskyArt #artist #game #puzzle #jigsaw Schwanfelder was born in Leeds to a German father who was a painter and decorator.

Yarr! Today be talk like a pirate day 🦜🏴‍☠️ From our archaeological collections: A clay tobacco pipe found in Houndhill #TalkLikeAPirateDay #Archaeology

Impressive buildings is the #OnlineArtExchange theme today The Colosseum by John Inigo Richards from Yale Center for British Art @artukdotorg.bsky.social #art #painting #BlueskyArt #Rome

It's 100 days until Christmas! Yes we can hear some of you groaning from here.....But we thought it was the perfect opportunity to mention The Barnsley Carol (Christmas Eve) by Arthur Godfrey, a song lost for 90 years until we re-discovered and now it is being sung around Barnsley and beyond

#BlueskyMonday Coast Scene, Margate, Kent James Vivien de Fleury 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #puzzleMonday #Margate #Kent

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House. 🎨 A Victorian Debutante by Robert Hope by Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums #Art #Victorian #BlueskyArt @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Honey, I shrunk the digital curator! As part of our Stories of Childhood exhibition we're asking what your first games console was?

Did you know its World Literacy Day? The @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social and heritage sites provide unique opportunities for children to explore extraordinary spaces through immersive and enriching activities. See more about the Barnsley Museums learning offers: www.barnsley-museums.com/schools

#BlueskyMonday Italiante Landscape with Classical Ruins by Jan Baptist Huysmans 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #puzzleMonday #Italy

Our Jackie has seen this headline and is now wanting to be the next Lord of Barnsley

Ceramics is the #OnlineArtExchange theme this week in celebration of the Mella Shaw:Sounding Line exhibition at The McManus 🎨 Charmology Head by Karen Thompson from Scarborough Art Gallery @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social #ceramics #BlueskyArt @artukdotorg.bsky.social

A new term. Time to start filling up your record of achievement..... Michael remembers being given this folder at Edward Sheerien School by his History and PSE teacher, Mr Norton. What have you kept from your school days? #BackToSchool

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJetBlack A pair of identical, Staffordshire vases from Cannon Hall Museum.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJetBlack This black crystal ball is from Barnsley’s first pagan café, The Yorkshire Witch on Pitt Street. It was owned by Pearl Armstrong, a long-practising Wiccan, who believes ‘Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of witchcraft’.

#BlueskyMonday Landscape: The Mendicant by Jan Wijnants 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #puzzleMonday

No48 from Cannon Hall Museum is also furniture: A set of six, walnut, ornamental chairs with a high backs. They have tapestry seats in a shell motif in shades of blue, pink, green and brown. The cabriole legs have a shell design on the knee and a floral design on the foot.

34 from Cannon Hall Museum is a Longcase Clock

No3 from The Cooper Gallery is 'Vietri and Raito, Bay of Salerno' by John Robert Cozens This drawing was done at the request of William Beckford (1759-1844) based on a sketch of the same scene that Cozens had made in 1782-3 when the two men were in Italy together.

We always have a great time with the #OnlineArtExchange The theme this week is all about time ⌚⏳⏲️ "Big Ben and the Thames, London" by Giacomo Barbarino from Chester Town Hall @artukdotorg.bsky.social #BlueskyArt #London #BigBen #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForIcons

"What's a Greek urn?" "About three drachma an hour."

Currently listening to Toby Tarrant on @radiox.co.uk who would like something named after him... Probably not what you and Dominic Byrne had in mind but we could name our 1960s toilet roll dolls after you.

53 is furniture from Cannon Hall Museum: Dining Chair by an Unknown Maker The backs are very similar to plate XII in the 1st Edition of The Director by Thomas Chippendale. There are pierced, carved brackets between the front legs and the seat. It is possible that the needlework seats are original.

21, from Cannon Hall Museum is a centre table with scagliola top by an Unknown Maker Scagliola is a mixture of plaster and stone designed to look like marble but it less expensive than cutting a table top from a large piece of marble.

Number 13 is another tin, made at Barnsley Canister Company

43 from Cannon Hall Museum is Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk' by John Michael Wright Henry Howard (1628-1683/4) inherited the title 6th Duke of Norfolk after his brother, the 5th Duke, suffered from mental illness and was placed in an asylum in Padua, Italy subsequently dying in 1677.

Number 8 from Cannon Hall Museum: 'Portrait of Alderman and Mrs McVie' by Brenda Bury They were the mayor and mayoress of Barnsley from 1954 to 1955. Bury went on to paint the portraits of royalty, politicians and dignitaries both in the UK and in her adopted home of Toronto, Canada.

17 is a great pick! 'A View of Old Bregenz, Austria' by JMW Turner It gives us the opportunity to mention that this week we have launched a new online exhibition 'Barnsley's Radical Collector' which features this painting bit.ly/BarnsleysRad...

13 From The Cooper Gallery: 'Northern Town' attributed to Thomas Girtin Girtin was an English landscape painter in watercolours. He was apprenticed to Edward Dayes and later employed with JMW Turner by Dr Thomas Monro to copy drawings, and they both made topographical drawings for a living.

Number 25 from Cannon Hall Museum is a bit of an unknown: A pedestal cupboard with an urn

Number 5 from Experience Barnsley Museum is a Municipal Tramways tin made at Barnsley Canister Company Known locally as the 'Tin Oyle' it was a significant company, not only here in Barnsley, but nationally and globally. They exported their highly sought-after tins around the world

As today is #InternationalLotteryDay pick a number between 1 and 59 and we'll share something from one of our collections.

The #AlphabetChallenge theme this week is #WeekIForIcons Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do... Jackie our very own icon says hello and hopes you're having a good ̶M̶o̶n̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶ Tuesday

Today is #InternationalDogDay 🐶🐕 The Spencer Stanhope family, previous occupiers of Cannon Hall were huge dog lovers and always called their dogs Colin! 🐾 #DogsOfBluesky

Have we told you the story about the openly gay couple in the 1950s who ran a shop together and owned a sweary parrot?! 🏳️‍🌈🦜🏪 We're so pleased that Maurice Dobson & Fred Halliday are to be remembered with a new blue plaque that will be unveiled next week. Have a cuppa and we'll tell you more...

We're biased but this is the perfect choice ♥️ Sadler also made multiple donations to The Cooper Gallery. He is celebrated in our new exhibition 'Barnsley's Radical Collector' which includes loans from our friends at @lulgalleries.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is portraits of artists and patrons for ‘Turner 250: The Artist and his early Patron’ at Tabley House 🎨 William De Morgan by his wife Evelyn De Morgan from @demorganfoundation.bsky.social You can see more work by William & Evelyn at Cannon Hall Museum

Let's make #NationalPotatoDay a national holiday! Staff and convalescing patients of Lundwood Military Hospital picking potatoes in 1917 #WorldPhotographyDay

We like photos and we love jigsaws so for #WorldPhotographyDay we decided to combine the two 🧩📸 All these photos were sent to us by our Facebook followers 🧩 bit.ly/WorldPhotogr... 📸 #Flowers #BlueskyPhotos #WorldPhotoDay #photography

Now that's an impressive hat! It's hard to tell where the hat stops and the flowers begin 🎩 🌸 📸 Unknown lady, Thurgoland c1910 #WorldPhotographyDay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHForHatsy

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHForHats As part of our #MakatonMonday series of videos one of the featured objects was a bowler hat which belonged to Frank Turner (An undertaker from Cudworth, not the singer!) Watch more of these videos on YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#BlueskyMonday 'Doge's Palace' by T.C Tinkler 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #puzzleMonday #Venice

Good morning! Our dolls have just had an important Teams meeting to discuss new content (and ways to take over the world)

We’re looking for Disabled Co-Producers to support our Curating Visibility Fellows. Interested in museums and the stories they tell? 🔗http://alturl.com/rg7pb @disabilitylab.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @charlestontrust.bsky.social @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social

Today is #WorldLizardDay 🦎 From our Cannon Hall collections, here is a Victorian water jug, by an unknown maker. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGlass

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art, in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️ 🎨 We've selected: A Coastal View Porth y Nant, Lleyn by Christopher Williams from The National Library Wales #art #BlueskyArt #Wales #Coast @artukdotorg.bsky.social

This anti-tank bomb (also known as a Sticky Bomb) was made at the glass factory, Beatson Clark. The woolly cover was covered in a sticky substance which enabled it to stick to the side of a tank before it exploded. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGlass

Anyone fancy an ice-cream? It's a scorcher in Barnsley today! 🥵 Monk Bretton children in 1959 🍦

This beautiful glass epergne was displayed at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851 It was made at the Wood Brothers factory in Worsbrough. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGlass

#OwlishMonday This owl was made at Wood Brothers in Barnsley in the 1970s. As the #AlphabetChallenge theme this week is #WeekGforGlass we will share more examples of beautifully made glass from Barnsley each day this week 😊

#BlueskyMonday The Colleoni Monument, Venice' attributed to F Tironi 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #PuzzleMonday