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Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉)
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Senior Curator job at the Natural History Museum London Salary in 2017: £42,400 Salary in 2026: £42,700 Crisis. What crisis.
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Mary Beale first 17th-century figure to receive national blue plaque
Historic England unveils plaque to portrait painter at Allbrook Farmhouse in Eastleigh, the only surviving building connected to Beale.
https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/mary-beale-first-17th-century-figure-to-receive-national-blue-plaque/?utm_source=Museums+%2B+Heritage&utm_campaign=f69926534f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_13_12_42_COPY_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-2149d7db3b-456972495
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Anyone I know going to the
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show today?
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Library of Innerpeffray
8 days ago
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.
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Orkney Library & Archive
17 days ago
Happy Star Wars Day everybody!
#StarWars
as photographs from the
#Orkney
Archive photographic collection. ⭐️
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay
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Sharon Howard
21 days ago
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).
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Orkney Library & Archive
26 days ago
Today is
#NationalPenguinDay
so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧
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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
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The National Gallery Micro Gallery: A roundtable 35 years on: Livestream (online access) | Events | National Gallery, London
Research Seminar The National Gallery Micro Gallery: A roundtable 35 years on with Alex Morrison, Prof Jane Winters, Christine Riding and John Stack. Monday, 11 May 2026, 5 - 7 pm. Available online on...
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/the-national-gallery-micro-gallery-a-roundtable-35-years-on-livestream-online-access-11-05-2026
about 1 month ago
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Art UK
about 1 month ago
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...
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Alexander Winkler
about 1 month ago
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
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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.
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about 1 month ago
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Somebody really went to town on the
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for this one ...
#WholesParts
about 1 month ago
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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...
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Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?
How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activities
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/14/art-sex-nature-why-is-everything-sold-to-us-as-a-means-to-an-end-rather-than-an-end-in-itself?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 1 month ago
Largely ignored by the world’s media, Scotland’s astronauts have returned safely too
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
about 1 month ago
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.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
about 2 months ago
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!
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Roland Huntford obituary
Historian and biographer of polar explorers whose book on Scott and Amundsen sparked controversy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/10/roland-huntford-obituary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
2 months ago
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Elizabeth Currie
2 months ago
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...
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A Caravaggio for Palazzo Barberini: MiC buys for 30 million
After a year and a half of negotiations, the agreement with a Florentine private collection was concluded
https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/a-caravaggio-palazzo-barberini-mic-buys-30-million-AI0HMJsB?refresh_ce=1
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Melissa Terras
2 months ago
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?
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A sensible 🧵 and comments. A lot of this boils down to the need for better
#MuseumDocumentation
(the Cinderella of the sector).
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2 months ago
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#MuseumDocumentation
hazards procedure: helping you not to kill your staff and visitors!
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3 months ago
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The Society of Antiquaries of London
3 months ago
Do you like breakfast? Do you like breakfast so much you'd stick samples of it in your notebook? Joseph Thomas Fowler would!
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New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish
Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/24/new-edition-ferrara-bible-persecuted-jews-kept-faith-alive-spanish?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
3 months ago
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Museums Association
3 months ago
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
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National Gallery restructure shows sector’s ‘dire financial position’ - Museums Association
Institution is cutting staff and reducing programming as it grapples to avoid £8.2m deficit
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/02/national-gallery-restructure-shows-sectors-dire-financial-position/
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Elise Wang
3 months ago
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.
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The Society of Antiquaries of London
3 months ago
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/
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mia ridge
3 months ago
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...
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The Cyberattack That Exposed The Fragility Of Digital Heritage
Saturday 28 October 2023 is a date that will live long in the memory of staff at the British Library. As they arrived for work that day, they encountered
https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberattack-that-exposed-the-fragility-of-digital-heritage/
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Always nice to see acquisition policies and procedures explained!
#MuseumDocumentation
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3 months ago
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Here we go ...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/l...
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London’s National Gallery to cut staff as it faces £8.2m deficit
The institution is offering a “voluntary exit scheme” for all employees and will be reducing its activities
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/london-national-gallery-to-cut-staff-as-it-faces-82-million-pound-deficit
3 months ago
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Richard Ovenden
3 months ago
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...
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/11/reading-writing-lower-dementia-risk-study-finds?CMP=share_btn_url
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Theo Sanderson
3 months ago
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
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
http://bluesky-map.theo.io/
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Power, Corruption & Likes
3 months ago
It's only 20 Pluviôse, 10 more days of this until Ventôse
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
3 months ago
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
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Oxford Clarion
4 months ago
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.
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Worst Journey
4 months ago
Confirmed:
observer.co.uk/profile/obit...
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Obituary: Roland Huntford, polar historian | The Observer
The iconoclastic historian recast Scott of the Antarctic as a tragic failure in the race to the South Pole
https://observer.co.uk/profile/obituary/article/obituary-roland-huntford-polar-historian
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Worst Journey
4 months ago
Something Has Happened (TBC)
www.instagram.com/p/DUC04teDOj1/
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frammuseum on Instagram: "We are sorry to learn that author Roland Huntford (born 1927) died last Friday after short illness. His biographies Last Place on E…"
We are sorry to learn that author Roland Huntford (born 1927) died last Friday after short illness. His biographies Last Place on Earth (1979), Nansen (1997) and Shackleton (1985) are pillars in polar literature and were key in creating the global fame of Roald Amundsen and Ernest Shackleton. The books are still bestsellers at the Fram Museum and elsewhere. Other frozen titles includes The Amundsen Photographs (1987), The Shackleton Voyages (2002), How to get to the Bottom (1966) and Two Planks and a Passion (2008). Huntford held the first Roald Amundsen Memorial Lecture on South Pole Day, the 14 December 2012 and has donated artifacts to the Fram Museum. RIP.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUC04teDOj1/
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#MuseumDocumentation
: please tell
@jdk653.bsky.social
how you manage not to kill your colleagues and visitors
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4 months ago
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Bodleian Libraries
4 months ago
Happy Penguin Day! 🐧 This is Aurora Australis - a book written, illustrated, printed and bound in Antarctica during the winter of 1908. [1/6]
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A refreshing approach to visitor numbers from
@museodelprado.es
:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief
Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like Louvre
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/prado-director-madrid-art-museum-visitors?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
4 months ago
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
4 months ago
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
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(Re)alignment: rethinking familial ties in the visual arts | Seminars and conferences | National Gallery, London
Expanding our understanding of family, community and what binds us together requires us to look beyond conventional definitions and documented histories.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/seminars-and-conferences/re-alignment-rethinking-familial-ties-in-the-visual-arts
4 months ago
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📢! 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
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Explore the collection | Paintings | National Gallery, London
Our collection contains more than 2,400 paintings and other works of art.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/explore-the-collection
5 months ago
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Oxford Clarion
6 months ago
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.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
6 months ago
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
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mia ridge
6 months ago
#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...
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Wikidata:Requests for comment/Exhibition models - Wikidata
Update: this discussion has been moved to the next stage, schema proposals, as of November 6, 2025! You can participate in the discussion here: Wikidata:Schema proposals/exhibition concept (parent)…
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Exhibition_models
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Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/nov/07/give-peas-a-chance-even-ai-peas-the-stephen-collins-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
6 months ago
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7 months ago
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reposted by
Society for Court Studies
7 months ago
📣 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-...
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Power, Corruption & Likes
7 months ago
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*?
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