‘A hub of humanity’: National Railway Museum space reopens after £11m refit Via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Job Klaxon! Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry. Job Details Salary - £41,177.63 Full Time London Deadline - 29/09/2025 ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

It’s been a busy couple of weeks at @sciencemuseum.org.uk as we’ve been putting the finishing touches to our wonderful new Space gallery. It opens on Saturday, and we’re celebrating with a weekend full of free space themed activities.

@peaksandpuddles.com Did you see the prospect of "a shared cycling and walking strategy linking the three regions with the heart of the Peak?" www.eastmidlands-cca.gov.uk/news/mayors-...

We were sad to learn of the death of astronaut Jim Lovell, who led the Apollo 13 crew to safety. In 2013 we welcomed Jim to the museum to hear more about his remarkable achievements blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/apollo-13s-j...

You've heard about Rail200 this year, but what about Braille200? Our amazing WROCAH placement student @tillyguthrie.bsky.social explains the dual history of Braille and the Railways in Britain: blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/braille-200/

@doublearrow64.bsky.social Erm.

I've been a bit quiet recently due to being busy getting our new Sound and Vision galleries ready @mediamuseum.bsky.social They opened today! There was a gaggle of kids having a brilliant time in there when I wandered through this morning 😍 Lovely overview here from @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

@thebeautyoftransport.com @danielhwright.bsky.social A Beacon footbridge in the wild at Y Fenni / Abergavenny.

@milleanick.bsky.social I ticked off another of the North Eastern Railway tiled maps at Scarborough yesterday.

🎉 Delighted to be a judge for this year's @museumsassociation.org Museums Change Lives awards. Nominations are now open - please spread the word and tell us about the people in your organisation who are doing good work: www.museumsassociation.org/campaigns/mu...

A new study says that the world's 'safe' climate limit may be closer to 1°C—not 1.5°C—as ice loss accelerates and irreversible sea level rise looms. I talk to Chris Stokes of @durham-university.bsky.social blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/paris-climat...

This just in 📢 Our new Sound and Vision galleries will open on Thursday 10 July.

Here we go... The countdown is on. Objects are being installed, interactives are being tested, labels are going in, and web content is being compiled. It's so exciting to see this coming to life after *years* of work. I can't wait to welcome visitors into the galleries!

We’re looking for new trustees at @oldoptheatre.bsky.social! Particularly if you can bring expertise in medical, commercial, fundraising or social inclusion, get in touch! oldoperatingtheatre.com/vacancies/

@olliedouglas.bsky.social The @railwaymuseum.bsky.social 1951 cattle wagon is having a moment in the sun as we prepare for the reopening of the Station Hall later this year. This is quite a late wagon from a period when cattle were increasingly travelling by road.

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social I found this classic clinging on in a side street in Mill Hill.

@thebeautyoftransport.com @doublearrow64.bsky.social Oxford could win a Least Consistent Signage award, with Rail Alphabet, Rail Alphabet 2, and several iterations of First Great Western/GWR all in evidence. I think some of the Rail Alphabet is also NSE blue.

Any thoughts @drolibetts.bsky.social?

Happy #EarthDay 🌍💚 Check out this post on how digital media can enhance our relationship with the natural world blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/earth-day-ca...

Just under a week left to apply for one (or both!) of these amazing #digitalpreservation jobs at the #dpc. Joins us!

"We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces." Carl Sagan www.openculture.com/2025/04/carl...

Details from David Hockney: Pieced Together ✨ It’s your FINAL MONTH to catch this exhibition, featuring this joiner of the museum in the 1980s (on display for the first time in 25 years!), alongside his stunning Four Seasons installation. www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/dav...

⏰ Final week to complete the @artscouncilengland.bsky.social review survey. This is your opportunity to help shape the review and influence the future of Arts Council England. Complete it here by 24 April: buff.ly/f4fPWAJ

'It’s a mind-expanding collision of science, technology, and storytelling that invites visitors to rethink who they are—and what they’re made of.' Huge well done to my @mediamuseum.bsky.social and @bradford2025.co.uk colleagues! It's wonderful to have this Marshmallow Laser Feast show in Bradford 😍

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social Today's treat is an unusually well preserved Finchley District Council stink pipe.

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social Relics of both Finchley and Barnet Urban District Councils, near their former border.

@rwldproject.bsky.social I came across this outdoor interpretation panel about a 1949 accident at Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve, part of the Avalon Marshes west of Glastonbury, Somerset. There was also an oral history clip.

As climate scientists worry that the Earth may tip beyond a point of irreversible climate change, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social explores new research that suggests that even the simplest computer model is vulnerable to such tipping points: bit.ly/4gNufo8

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.

Absolutely wonderful report from @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social on the movement of the collection stores from Blythe House in London to custom facility in Wiltshire, including digitisation and barcoding of 300,000 objects. Phenomenal work over years, and great investment in collections access.

@doublearrow64.bsky.social Oh dear, oh dear. (Hope station bus shelter, Derbyshire)

"I realised that what is so ghastly is not so much the individual acts of barbarism that take place in SS camps but the gradual breakdown of civilisation that happens when human beings are herded like animals behind barbed wire." -Richard Dimbleby, 15 April 1945 #HolocaustMemorialDay

News | Science and Industry Museum (@sim-manchester.bsky.social) partners with @theguardian.com newspaper on slavery exhibition – project aims to increase public understanding of Manchester’s historic connections to enslavement

1.5°C target RIP. Record global temperatures, record ocean temperatures, extreme weather, fires and more - is the the Earth getting hotter, faster than thought? blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/is-the-earth...

@rooneyvision.bsky.social Shame it wasn't sunny.

Transatlantic slavery’s role in shaping Manchester to be explored in exhibition

@jackshoulder.bsky.social A bit of queer history in this blog post.

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social On display at Leeds Art Gallery @leedsmuseums.bsky.social. The photo shows The Lesson by Franta Belsky, 1957-61, at the Avebury estate in Bethnal Green.

Sunset at @yspsculpture.bsky.social.

Tickets for our new exhibition, David Hockney: Pieced Together, are on sale now 📸 Explore world-renowned Bradford-born artist David Hockney's pioneering use of film and photography in our new exhibition, opening Wednesday 15 January. Book your tickets now 🎟 https://buff.ly/4aaZXdB

Culture, Media & Sport Committee have launched their 'State of Play' inquiry. What themes or sectors we should the committee be looking into in 2025? Get in touch via the link. Deadline for initial ideas is Friday 21 February committees.parliament.uk/work/8784/st...

Flooding at Stretford Ees, and the River Mersey, both taken from a tram towards Altrincham.

Happy new year! Especially to folks up here in Bradford as we kick off our year as City of Culture. It's going to be ace! #BD25

A key point here about libraries. One of the investment cases for libraries/archives/museums is that forms of knowledge are changing - the special collections we should be collecting now for humanities & social science research are digital: web/social media/personal digital collns, highly ephemeral.

Greatly impressed by London's largest nature restoration project at Enfield Chase, by Enfield Council and @thames21.bsky.social. 60 hectares of new woodland along the valley of Salmon's Brook, helping biodiversity and natural flood management, and a massively improved stretch of the London Loop.

What awaits us in 2025? I mention some of the cool science and technology that will make headlines in the coming year blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/what-awaits-...

This is good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greetings for Christmas and the new year from the Hotels Executive, 1951. Railway station hotels were nationalised under the British Transport Commission and later British Rail between 1948 and 1984. From the Science Museum Group Collection @railwaymuseum.bsky.social.

big news: from 8 Jan 2025, the absolute unit tweet will be on show in an actual museum (the National Science and Media Museum).