Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺

The funeral procession of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar reported in the Bexhill Observer 23.9.1911. #Maharajah #CoochBehar #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s

Sunbeam #BuenosAires #Argentina 23.9.1876. "The sky was flushed with rosy clouds, the forerunners of one of the most beautiful sunrises imaginable. The river itself is narrow and monotonous, the branches of the willow-trees on either bank almost sweeping the sides of the steamer." #Brassey #1870s

Greek myth explains autumn through Persephone’s descent. When she returns to Hades, the earth mourns with withering leaves and barren fields. The equinox becomes her threshold between worlds. #FairyTaleTuesday Art: Walter Crane

“Stop! STOP!! Mate, I said OX not FOX !” - 15th century, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.126, f. 77v

Study finds female crabs drawn to power cables. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love this vintage sign on display in Hastings Museum. I love the concept of “popular prices” too! #Bexhill #Font

#RodentOfTheDay Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) "In addition to baseball-sized nests used by a single adult, sometimes makes larger nests occupied by a group of 8 or more." Photo/Info: www.mammalsociety.org/golden-mouse

St Anne's Well, also known as the Virtuous Well, at Trellech in #Monmouthshire. A medieval healing well and a genuine wishing well: people would drop pebbles into the water and if bubbles appeared, the wish would be granted. Note the ribbons or 'clouties' tied to the trees above the well. #folklore

Inside the one of the three dolmens at Mané-Kerioned in Brittany can be found a number of intriguing carvings. They were uncovered, along with many pottery fragments, when the site was excavated in 1866. #TombTuesday

Kasuga Primeval Forest, Nara, Japan (image 3)

A beautiful...trap? Meet the Venus' Flower Basket. #LetsChangeThat

Sheet Music For Cats And Their Lovers : Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie, 1868 flashbak.com/moritz-von-s...

Aileen Pringle in costume for The Palace of the King (1923). Portrait by Clarence Sinclair Bull.

Wyrdlings! To celebrate Jim Henson’s birthday this week, we give you: “Storytelling Special: Whimsy cabarets, Weird Worlds and Wonderful Labyrinths” as our #WyrdWednesday topic – let’s make the storyteller proud!

Edinburgh. The High Street with John Knox’s House, Hill and Adamson, 1843–47 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

"Egerton Road, Bexhill-on-Sea." #Bexhill #Sussex #Postcard c.1906. Note the tram standards and tracks. You can just see us on the left. #Tram #History #1900s

Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Mouse, Shibata Zeshin.

For #TombTuesday today we are inside one of the two passage graves built side by side in a single mound at Dissignac in St-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) before its restoration in the 1970s. Card by Chapeau in Nantes early 1920s.

Autumn landscape with fox, Bruno Liljefors, 1918.

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length. 📷 Laténium 🏺

#RodentOfTheDay Yucatan Squirrel (Sciurus yucatanensis) "...originally named the Yucatan gray squirrel, also once named the Campeche squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in the Yucatán Peninsula and adjacent areas." Photo/Info: animalia.bio/yucatan-squi...

A staple of #creepy old stories were mysterious eyes, and what more terrifying than 'The Eyes Of Terror'? From the prolific writer of sensational stories (and oddly, schoolgirl novels) L T Meade, together with long-time collaborator Robert Eustace, this one appeared in The Strand in 1903. #horror

🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

I'd like to know where he got his version of the Wendigo from, as it's not much like how it appears in folklore. I also wonder whether Matt Fox's 1944 illustration for Famous Fantastic Mysteries is the origin of the antlers that are now so ubiquitous but so far as I know not in the original tales.

Correct Autumn Garb for the Woman in Mourning, 1914 #TheVictorianBookoftheDead #Autumn #AutumnEquinox

Have you ever seen some amber? You might know it from the start of Jurassic Park, where an ancient mosquito is discovered trapped in it. Now, for the first time, amber containing insects has now been found in South America! Find out what it reveals 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

"Presentation of Tank, Bexhill." 22.9.1919. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Tank #History #1910s

Why he can not sleep by Thomas Nast (1866)

Are you looking for somewhere to hold your next meeting? We hire out our Education Room for £17.50 an hour, within our normal opening hours, & £20 an hour outside them. The room seats up to 40 people & has a computer linked projector & screen. The room also has kitchen facilities. #Bexhill

It's important that objects on display are held firmly in place, as movement can cause damage. This is something we check during our conservation deep cleans. Whilst cleaning this case Conservator Steph, noticed an object had slipped. Watch to see how we solved the problem 👇

Sunbeam #BuenosAires #Argentina 22.9.1876. "Flowers in profusion; a tame cardinal bird for Muriel; a pair of dear little ...paroquets; the skin of a seal...a beautiful poncho; an Argentine bit, whip & stirrups; a carpincha skin; two pretty little muletas - a sort of armadillo, very tame..." #Brassey

Uranus and the Pleiades. 22 September 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

"St. John's, Bexhill-on-Sea. Large Schoolroom." St. John's School for Girls, Collington Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex postcard c.1908. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #School #Classroom #History #1900s

The allée couverte of Le Rocher in St-Jacut-du-Méné (Côtes-d’Armor) is estimated to have been 14m long. It was partly destroyed before 1897 when it was excavated. In 1910 it was sold to a stonemason who broke the rest of it up.

"Jumping the broom" is when a couple jumps over a broom to symbolize their union. It is most often performed in an elopement. The ritual has been practiced by cultures such as the Irish, Welsh, and Romani, but is most widespread among African-Americans and African-Canadians. #MythologyMonday

sittin on the dock of the bay

In Greek myth, Hecate roams crossroads and thresholds when nights are longest. Her torches pierce the dark, her hounds howl across barren fields. She is both guide and terror in the waning of the year. #FolkloreSunday

Merlin, the Museum Cat, Bert Lee. #Caturday

"Harvest Home - Painted By Godwin." The Illustrated London News 25.9.1858. #FolkloreSunday #Harvest #History #1850s

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

"Visit The De La Warr Cycling Boulevard, Bexhill-On-Sea. Sole Agency For Humbers, Nelsons, Osmonds, Royal Psychos, Simpson Levers, Chainless, Triumphs, and other Machines of Reliable Manufacture." Bexhill on Sea Illustrated Visitors' List 21.9.1897. #Bexhill #Seaside #Sussex #Cycling #History #1890s

It is very undesirable that any animal should share your sleeping room. Secure your dog in some suitable place downstairs and punish him should he howl. It is an unwholesome thing to have a dog in your bedroom.

Night and silence. - Who is here? A Midsummer Night’s Dream II, 2 Arthur Rackham #ShakespeareSunday

This is a fossil dinosaur footprint from #Bexhill beach. Naturally formed cast in sandstone. It’s part of the current dinosaur exhibition in our corridor gallery.

Sunbeam #Gibraltar 21.9.1874. "So we had a great bustle to get the children's things ready. It was indeed a terrible disappointment to us all, this sudden parting, and if the children had only asked, I do not think I could have had the heart to refuse them another week." #Brassey #History #1870s

Angel,' (1887) is both a portrait of Abbott Handerson Thayer's 11 year old daughter Mary and an allegory of hope and spirituality. Thayer scraped the paint with backs of brushes, scrapers, his fingers, and a paint tube to achieve the depth in the wings.

Rare palm's 13ft leaf thought to be UK's largest. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...