For the final day of #museum30 I always choose the prompt “why museums?” And every year the challenge shows why - because museums are spaces for connection not only to the past but to the people who work within them!

On my last trip to London I visited Canary Wharf, an area I’d not been to before, which gave me the perfect image for today’s prompt of ‘water’. This Whale, made of 5 tonnes of plastic removed from the ocean, is by Jason Klimoski & Lesley Chang. #museum30

For Day 29 of #Museum30 we present the Barkway Wagon Wash! Part of the village's history as a major coaching town, coaches would drive through the #Water to clean their wheels and name plates before resuming their onward journeys. The parish council are currently fundraising to restore it.

It's the penultimate day of #Museum30 and the prompt is #Water Worsbrough Reservoir was built in 1804 to supply water to the new Worsbrough spur of the Dearne and Dove canal.

I scheduled the weather specifically to line up with today’s prompt…

Day 28: Water. This animated background creates the perfect setting for these ancient Cypriot model boats, at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden #Museum30

It’s somehow already day 28 of #museum30 and the prompt is mural so here’s a brilliantly colourful one from @edenprojects.uk

Definitely my biggest #achievement of the last year has been completing the Ceramic Scoping Project @artukdotorg.bsky.social. There’s now over 6000 ceramics you can search from collections around the UK! #museum30

For #museum30 day 26 there’s no better choice from the prompt ‘moving’ than the iconic dinos at the Natural History Museum!

It's really hard to be witty every day on the Internet so we're having another go at yesterday's #Mooseum30 theme 🐮 Lead cows that belonged to Elizabeth, made by her grandfather in Grimethorpe in the 1950s #Museum30 #Animal

Ive never thought of myself as a specialist of anything but I do have a lot of special interests including the study of taxidermy. I even managed to work my dissertation around it! #museum30

For today’s prompt of #animal I’ve chosen this lovely little sparrowhawk by Jacobo de’ Barbari from the National Gallery. #museum30

Have you seen our dog? If not, you should, he's awesome! 'Hatch', a terrier/whippet cross, was found outside the carpenter's cabin, and was the ship's ratter. He was also a good boy. Yes, he was. #Museum30 #animal Find out more - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

Day 23: Animal. I love zoomorphic ancient Cypriot ceramics, half way between pot and animal - this one from the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia #Museum30

#museum30 Day 23 prompt is #animal At the restored hydro scheme at Stanley Mills, an escape ladder’ was installed to help otters get out the modern, steeper lade. This otter, holding a fish, was knitted by the Stanley WI ladies as part of oor Community Textile Project.

The #Museum30 today is #Animal which allows us to show off our latest addition to the permanent galleries at The Cooper Gallery 'Boy with whippet and pups' by Joseph Gott.

I spent a week in Cornwall in April exploring the beautiful coastline and mining heritage, discovering the joy of solo walks! #museum30

I started my museum career working front of house @themerl.bsky.social whilst studying at university. As a very quiet person it really surprised me just how much I loved getting to talk to visitors everyday and hear about their favourite parts of the collection! #museum30

The closest I get to consistently keeping a #diary is my bird book which contains lists of sightings and sketches from various birdwatching trips (mostly it records visits to Skomer) #museum30

There’s a real #magic to nature and learning more about the origins of local folklore is something I want to do more in the coming year. This display of traditional herbs is from Brockhampton a couple years ago. #museum30

#museum30 day 18 - photograph The Photographer by Tirzah Garwood from the ‘Beyond Ravilious’ exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social

#museum30 day 17 - Making Museums which explore the methods used to make the everyday objects we use in our houses are always fascinating. I loved getting to see the colour tests and plaster moulds used in the ceramic production at Gladstone Pottery when I visited last!

These are just a few of my favourite objects from some museums I’ve visited in the last 12 months - there’s been lots of art, ceramics and of course natural history! #museum30 day 16

We are already halfway through #museum30 and I’ve loved seeing what everyone’s come up with so far! Day 15 is Kindness, something I’ve been trying to be more mindful of this year is being kind to myself so this print on the wall beside my desk is a great reminder of that.

#museum30 day 14 - Heavy I love discovering preserved elements of history just dotted about in everyday life - like this sign giving instructions for heavy loads on the canal bridge!

I love how full the background is in this piece ‘An English Garden’ by Percy R. Craft, it looks like you could just step into the painting! #museum30- day 13

Now that I work for Art UK - a digital platform, I get to working from home. It is something I’ve adapted to so much better than I had anticipated when beginning my role. #museum30

#museum30 day 11 is reflection and I’ve gone simple today with the reflection of a bridge on one of my favourite local canal walks.

The prompt for day 11 of #museum30 is rainbow, so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to share these two photos taken one of my stays on @skomerisland.bsky.social Very excitingly, I’ll be spending a week volunteering on the island next summer!

Captivated by the hunting locally, King James I established a royal retreat in our town, remnants of which can be seen today. These satellite images are overlaid with the historic buildings and street names from the era of King James, based on archival documents. Day 9, #Museum30 #Map

Some people will tell you that the Mary Rose never made it out of the harbour, but she was actually well travelled, at least for a ship in Henry VIII's navy. This map shows some of the Mary Rose's more notable destinations - any near you? #Museum30 #Maps maryrose.org/discover/his...

#museum30 day 9 - Map This notebook from my time as Assistant Art Curator at y Gaer is full of these maps of the galleries. As a visual person they really helped when planning new exhibitions!

#museum30 day 8 - stitch It’s far to early to be thinking of Christmas but these ornaments from the tree at Dinefwr House are always a favourite of the season!

#Museum30 Did you make a sampler like this at school? This one was made by Mary Denton in 1853 and appears in our Stories of Childhood exhibition which you can now explore online 💻360° virtual tour bit.ly/StoriesOfChi... #Stitch

Today's #Museum30 prompt is stitch 🪡 This cushion cover is in the Embroiderers' Guild collection. Read more about the collection 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/introducing-the-embroiderers-guild-collection#Museum30 'Cushion Cover' by unknown artist 📷 The Embroiderers' Guild

Check out this load of old bobbins! The crew of the Mary Rose used them to store their sewing kits (thread around the spindle, needles and pins in a hollow space at the end), which they would use to repair damaged materials, such as this ripped cloth jerkin! #Museum30 #Stitch

Day 8 #museum30 stitch. I saw these knitted neurons in the lovely Hello Brain exhibition at the Francis Crick institute. #STEMengagement #exhibition #visitorexperience

Day 8: Stitch. The incised decoration on ancient Cypriot pottery - often enhanced with lime - is sometimes thought to imitate stitching on textile containers. #Museum30

Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart

A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡

This beautiful seal bag, embroidered with the Royal Arms of England, was made in 1280 to protect the wax seal attached to a charter from the reign of Edward I. It's a fine example of 'opus anglicanum' - highly-prized English embroideries with gold and silver thread. #Museum30 #Stitch

#museum30 day 7 - box This incredible hat box from the V&A is the ultimate space saving solution.

#museum30 day 6 - clay I’ve spent a year immersed in clay, in my own pottery practice and through my work on the ceramic scoping project @artukdotorg.bsky.social A Bit of Blue, Henry Stacy Marks (1829-1898) Image credit: @rammuseum.bsky.social

#museum30 day five - ‘sharing’ This year I’ve had the opportunity to do lots of teaching in my other role as a pottery studio technician. As a very introverted person it always surprises me just how much I enjoy sharing my love of ceramics with others and seeing what they create!

The prompt for #museum30 day 4 is #sketchbook and these ones come from a display at @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social by the Dorset Deaf Activities Group. The hand bound sketchbooks were created in response to Elisabeth Frink’s life and work, featuring sketches for the final collaborative piece.

Day4 #museum30 sketchbook a digital recreation of John Hunter’s sketchbooks in the Hunterian Museum. The new museum brilliantly interweaves the story of Hunter into the collection. I work on the front-end evaluation & it was great to see the issues raised by audiences being so effectively addressed

#Museum30 theme 4 is #sketchbook. Dunblane Museum has early guidebook to museum with front cover with beautiful sketch (of entrance to museum) designed by artist Helen A Lamb 🚶Visit Dunblane Museum 🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov) 🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm) 🆓 Free admission

November #Museum30 theme 4 is #sketchbook. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has 1898 book “The Battle of Sheriffmuir,” by John E Shearer, containing sketches, about the 1715 Jacobite battle fought at Dunblane www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/1715-jacobit... …/👇

It's #Sketchbook for Day 4 of #Museum30. Our collection includes sketches by costume designer Richard Croft, who worked on shows including Dr Who and Blackadder. Thanks the help of those who knew and worked with Croft, we're celebrating his work in a new exhibition next year.

#museum30 - sketchbook The Illustrated Police News cost just a penny, providing an illustrated roundup of ‘all the startling events of the week’ from its first issue in 1864 @BritishLibrary has compiled a fantastic selection of those images in this book - a Museum bestseller!