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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about books In case you thought audiobooks were new, 'Reading Aloud' was painted by Airdrie artist John Levack (1823-1874) artuk.org/discover/art...

On #WorldBookDay you can find out more about #Scotland's #printers on our website

👀 @eddiecstewart.bsky.social's review of Richard Oram's latest, series completing book: tinyurl.com/4vru2tv2

Engagement Officer Janiece Ndoye discusses her work with a team of Community Researchers from diverse backgrounds to explore & interpret the colonial links of objects at Summerlee Museum www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/blog/decolon... Funded by @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk & @northlanarkshire.gov.uk

Check out our updated slate of free online events with spaces still available! Upcoming events cover data migration, records of traumatic histories, manorial records, heritage science and more: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... Book now to avoid disappointment!

We are enjoying the #WinterOlympics #curling but can't help feeling the players could work on their attire after seeing this painting by John Levack It shows a curling match near #Airdrie in 1857. Spot the coal mines that partly funded the players' wealth www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...

Keen to share your thoughts on our 3-year digital capacity building strategy? We’ve commissioned consultant Simon Wilson to run an independent series of focus group discussions on Our Digital Century and Novice to Know-How! Find out more and sign up for a session: simonpwilson.com/client-area/...

There is still time to apply to be our new Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums! Closing date is this Tuesday, 17 February

Two weeks to go | Make a proposal for a session at this year's conference 📢 Ahead of MA Conference 2026: Museums Connecting Communities, we’re looking for proposals for bold, innovative sessions that bring us together to find solutions to the critical issues of the day. Got an idea? Submit now 👇

North Lanarkshire Council Museums are looking for a full-time Site Supervisor The post is based at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge, closing date is 17 February

New on our museum collections website is a 1st hand account of the operation to rescue 135 miners trapped underground following the 1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery Disaster It was written by James Lillie of the Coatbridge Mines Rescue Brigade www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/rescue...

We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...

The star of 9, Dalmuir West. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is on the theme of light & dark This is 'Sea and Moon' by James Downie Robertson (1931-2010) who studied & later taught at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social

Our friends @scotindustria.bsky.social are holding their Burns Doo & AGM at the Beechwood Scout Hall, Stirling on 31 January £15 a head and all welcome. They will be offering discounted memberships for non-members who attend. See the SIHS Facebook page www.facebook.com/groups/11666...

Love to see the new illuminated 'Corporation Transport' lettering on 1930s Glasgow tramcar 1245 which is being restored by our amazing volunteers at Summerlee Museum 1245 was the last Glasgow tram to run before the power was turned off. See the Glasgow's Last Tram Group website glasgowslasttram.net

Our friends @earlyengines.bsky.social are holding the 4th International Early Engines Conference in Bristol from 22 to 24 March See their website for the latest news www.earlyengines.org

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates bold and colourful art This is a favourite from our collection, 'Turn Hay' by #Motherwell artist Millie Frood artuk.org/discover/art...

It’s Heritage Treasures Day. My #HeritageTreasure is CR Stanley’s spectacular 1850s painting of Gartsherrie Iron Works in Coatbridge It’s part of the @mininglandscapes.bsky.social Summerlee West Circular tour www.mining-landscapes.org/route/117 @heritagefunduk.bsky.social @nlheritage.bsky.social

A new story on our website explores the legacy of the Aitchison's of Rochsolloch and their links to slavery on the island of Grenada. The Aitchison's accrued this tainted wealth and reinvested it at home, leaving behind a troubling legacy which we can still see and feel today. tinyurl.com/vjdu9t3r

Born #OnThisDay Sir John Craig (1874-1957) Joining the Motherwell steelmakers David Colville & Sons as an office boy just before his 14th birthday Craig rose to become Managing Director & Chairman of the Colvilles group His last task was overseeing the early construction of Ravenscraig Steel Works

This week's #OnlineArtExchange celebrates sisterhood & so here is a portrait from our collection of sculptor Aniza McGeehan by her sister Jessie M McGeehan artuk.org/discover/art... Born in Airdrie the sisters studied at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social & then in Paris @artukdotorg.bsky.social

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange focuses on the natural world Here is a beautiful Scottish scene to cheer us all up on a dull December day, 'Rhum & Sanna Bay' by @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social graduate Tom Hovell Shanks (1921-2020)

We're taking this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme of dramatic art very literally AND shamelessly pandering to #swifties with this wonderful cast bronze plaque of Ophelia in front of the Arras in Hamlet. It's from Colzium House #Kilsyth artuk.org/discover/art... #taylorswift

There’s still time to sign up for our conference on the theme of Narratives and Memories of Industrial Work and Heritage It’s on Friday 31 October @ The Engine Shed in Stirling stickssn.org/events/

Have you heard about our Decolonising North Lanarkshire's Museums Collections project? Join us at Summerlee Museum at 2pm tomorrow (Wednesday) to find out about our collections' colonial links & how we are addressing them north-lanarkshire-council-museums.arttickets.org.uk/summerlee-mu...

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is haunted by ghosts & ethereal art We can imagine Bet Low's 'Moon and Clouds' above a graveyard at the start of a Hammer horror film! artuk.org/discover/art...

Animals are the theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange This sunny scene is 'Calves Resting' by 'Glasgow Boy' David Gauld (1865-1936) artuk.org/discover/art... #ScottishArt

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about impressive buildings but we think it could do with a bit more #IndustrialHeritage This c.1930 drypoint etching by an unknown artist is of Gartsherrie Iron Works #Coatbridge artuk.org/discover/art...

The latest exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre #Motherwell is 'Back to the Drawing Board' which celebrates the art of technical drawing It runs until 25 October. Here's a link to a filmed interview with former draughtsman Stuart Graham www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/exhibition/b...

Lots of lovely things in 'Back to the Drawing Board', the next exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre in #Motherwell, all about the art of technical drawing This tracing from 1907 is of a George Russell & Co 4 ton electric wharf crane for the Clyde Navigation Trust Exhibition opens Friday

News | Artworks highlighting Scotland’s links to British Empire donated to museums – works from the John Shaw Collection gifted to @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social and @paisleymuseum.bsky.social

From Springburn to South Africa: @uofglasgow.bsky.social Material Culture & Artefact Studies placement student Megan has written this story about the colonial connections of one of our biggest exhibits, the Garratt locomotive at Summerlee Museum www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/from-s...

Call for papers: SCA Annual Conference 2025 We are inviting proposals on the theme ‘Celebrating Success’, showcasing achievements, innovations, and collaborations shaping the sector. Find out more and submit: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...

Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees 👤 We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK, with places available for 3 members to join each of our England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales committees. Apply by 14 September 👇

Want to know who keeps #MiningLandscapes Breaking Barriers project team on the proverbial straight and narrow. Nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog to meet the new Advisory Board. #Coal #MiningHeritage

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange takes us to Wales This is one of three wonderful early drawings in our collection by Welsh miner turned artist & teacher Vincent Evans (1896-1976). It shows miners laying a charge in a drilled hole in the coal face artuk.org/discover/art...

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about religious art This banner was painted in about 1889 for the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Brotherhood (there was also a Sisterhood) which ran in #Kilsyth until 1910 & promoted sobriety & mutual support artuk.org/discover/art...

#OnThisDay in 1729 Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the 1st successful steam engine died The 1810 Farme Colliery Engine, one of just 3 surviving rotative Newcomen engines worked for 100 years in #Rutherglen & is now preserved at Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...

The 90s needs you! As part of the ‘Summerlee: New Stories, New Audiences, Better Lives’ redevelopment project, in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the 1990s have arrived at Summerlee Museum Tomorrow & select days over the summer a 1990s bedroom is open & we need your feedback

#OnThisDay in 1770 two of the greatest engineers of their age met for the 1st time, beside the #MonklandCanal in what is now #Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/a-famo... The photo shows the filled-in Sheepford Basin where construction of the canal began that year under James Watt

Banner of the Glasgow Typographical Society (1817), an early trade union founded by the letter-press printers of Glasgow. Imagine carrying that at a rally, knowing that every single person present was surreptitiously checking the kerning. (Pic: pistachio.gla.ac.uk/case-studies/)

This little fragment of industrial housing has a Summerlee connection @nlheritage.bsky.social The New Orbiston rows in #Bellshill were built c.1892 by the Summerlee Iron Company for miners & their families. Map courtesy of @natlibscot.bsky.social

The theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is self-portraits This is Thomas Hudson who ran a boilerworks in Coatbridge. Hudson died in 1828 but his business continued for another 50 years & much of the machinery is in Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge artuk.org/discover/art...

Volunteering today with @archscot.bsky.social dig on the site of Robert Owen’s New Orbiston manufactury nr Bellshill Our trench is already looking interesting now we’ve cleared the vegetation @scotindustria.bsky.social @sticknetwork.bsky.social @nlheritage.bsky.social q

This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is about summer & here is 'Sun Shower' (1973) by Charles T K MacQueen MacQueen was born in Glasgow and studied at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/art...

The Travelling Gallery is at Summerlee Museum in #Coatbridge today until 4pm with the group exhibition Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries Full details here travellinggallery.com/current-exhi...

In 2023, volunteers uncovered a rare visible example of an early mine shaft at a 17th-century mansion in Stirlingshire 👷 Want to help investigate this unusual feature, no experience required? Register to join the team from 19 July before spaces fill up: www.digitscotland.com/events/banno...