Senior Curator job at the Natural History Museum London Salary in 2017: £42,400 Salary in 2026: £42,700 Crisis. What crisis.

Anyone I know going to the @museumsandheritage.com show today?

It will soon be time for our exhibition on Sat 30 & Sun 31 May, celebrating Sir Ernest Shackleton. Please note that the talk on Sat 30 is SOLD OUT. We have a waiting list so if you have tickets but can no longer attend, let us know! The Library will be CLOSED for tours from 2-4pm on Sat 30th.

Happy Star Wars Day everybody! #StarWars as photographs from the #Orkney Archive photographic collection. ⭐️ #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay

I have my ticket ...

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

If you can remember the National Gallery's Microgallery* (or if you can't), you might be interested in this #MuseumDocumentation #MuseumComputing www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/the-n... *developed by @cogapp.com in HyperCard 2.0 and THINK C, launched 2 months BEFORE the public launch of the WWW

New Head of Service for Museum Data Service 📣 We are delighted to announce that Dr Mia Ridge @miaout.bsky.social will become Head of Service for Museum Data Service, the transformative initiative which is connecting all the object records across the UK’s museums 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

Asking the #glam people here: Do you know glam catalogues that use and expose #wikidata IDs? I'm looking for examples where places, people, subjects etc. or the objects themselves etc. are (visibly) linked to the Wikidata item in the web frontend. If you know any such catalouges, let me know! thanks

Big and *great* news! @artukdotorg.bsky.social, @collectionstrust.bsky.social & @uniofleicester.bsky.social couldn't have made a better choice. Really looking forward to working with @miaout.bsky.social to maximise the use of the National Gallery's & UK'S #MuseumDocumentation data.

Somebody really went to town on the #MuseumDocumentation for this one ... #WholesParts

Something the GLAM sector is very susceptible to: over the years we've been conditioned to justify ourselves in predominantly practical terms, not as things that are good in themselves. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

Largely ignored by the world’s media, Scotland’s astronauts have returned safely too

Delicate purple, pink and even white snake's head fritillary plants, with their bell-like flowers, can be seen for a short window in early spring. This 1861 drawing is by John Ruskin and shows a single snake's-head fritillary stem and flower.

Designed to look like books, these ceramic objects are actually flasks or hand warmers. They are thought to have been filled with hot water or coal to warm the hands of the wearer on a cold winter's day. They functioned as a sort of ceramic hot water bottle. The perfect gift for book lovers!

The Italian State buys Caravaggio's portrait of Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII, for €30 million for the Palazzo Barberini collection #earlymodern en.ilsole24ore.com/art/a-carava...

I’ve been thinking about this. My own attitude to encountering human remains in institutions has changed massively over the past 20 years: sector norms are changing. Most institutions would welcome the resource to enact changes. But where are the resources coming from to move with greater empathy?

A sensible 🧵 and comments. A lot of this boils down to the need for better #MuseumDocumentation (the Cinderella of the sector).

#MuseumDocumentation hazards procedure: helping you not to kill your staff and visitors!

Do you like breakfast? Do you like breakfast so much you'd stick samples of it in your notebook? Joseph Thomas Fowler would!

News | National Gallery restructure shows sector’s ‘dire financial position’ Institution is cutting staff and reducing programming as it grapples to avoid £8.2m deficit

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

In March we're looking forward to Morris Month, a month-long celebration of William and May Morris with @williammorrissocuk.bsky.social. We've got three events organised for the celebrations, check them out at williammorrissociety.org/morris-month/

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

Always nice to see acquisition policies and procedures explained! #MuseumDocumentation

Here we go ... www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/l...

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

It's only 20 Pluviôse, 10 more days of this until Ventôse

John Ruskin was born on this day in 1819. Ruskin was one of the most influential writers on art and architecture in 19th-century Britain. The use of colour in art was important to Ruskin. He believed that the colours of the natural world could inspire and guide artists. WA.RS.RUD.201

An ironmongers that traces its ancestry back to 1530 is closing. Gill & Co in Chipping Norton was opened 20 years ago as a branch of the long-running Oxford store, which itself closed its doors in 2010.

Confirmed: observer.co.uk/profile/obit...

Something Has Happened (TBC) www.instagram.com/p/DUC04teDOj1/

#MuseumDocumentation : please tell @jdk653.bsky.social how you manage not to kill your colleagues and visitors

Happy Penguin Day! 🐧 This is Aurora Australis - a book written, illustrated, printed and bound in Antarctica during the winter of 1908. [1/6]

A refreshing approach to visitor numbers from @museodelprado.es: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Welcome to our new followers! Looking for historical inspiration (or distraction)? 150 UK galleries, libraries, archives & museums - all active on Bluesky - are highlighted in this new pack. Excellent and diverse collections, info about online events, heritage snark and more. go.bsky.app/Ms7endH

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/sem... #ArtHistory #CFP

#MuseumDocumentation 📢! The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation

OUP say that rage bait differs from clickbait in its intent to evoke “anger, discord and polarization”, which itself is a classic example of rage bait in its flagrant disregard for the Oxford comma.

Have you ever seen a Kingfisher? Alex Mitchell brings John Ruskin's Study of a Kingfisher to life in this beautiful animation. 💙 Study of a Kingfisher, John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), 1871. WA.RS.RUD.201

#MuseTech folk, there's a proposal for 'exhibitions' on wikidata that could probably use your input, especially if you've ever worked on a 'what's on' site and know the complexities of exhibition data! Overview page: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...

skeeters, anyone who's ever met me irl will know I know nothing about fashion -- but if *you* know about fashion, what are your favourite/best digital resources etc for fashion *history*?