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...

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is about smells in art I don't know about you but we can smell that big jug of filter coffee (or is it tea?) in Breakfast Still Life by Jack Knox (1936-2015) artuk.org/discover/art...

#Ravenscraig, Scotland's biggest steelworks was built near #Motherwell & #Wishaw in the 1950s Most of the site was farmland but there had been other industries here, as this 1905 invoice from the Ravenscraig Sand Quarry Co shows www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta... #IndustrialHeritage

Went awol from here...but I curated an exhibition! Its about music in North Lanarkshire and its open at Summerlee until October! 💃🎸🕺

Marina Glasgow PhD student and Jean-Paul @nlheritage.bsky.social Engagement Officer on campus with Aileen learning to use the walking route creation ‘back office’ functionality #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum new Breaking Barriers project wizard will make this process so much easier

Enjoyed last night’s preview of ‘Everything Flows’ at Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge. It’s an exhibition about North Lanarkshire’s music scenes & opens today The brilliant interviews by @shacklington.bsky.social will be added to our oral history collection @nlheritage.bsky.social

I had a great wee cycle up the Calderbank to Coatbridge stretch of the canal the other week

I keep banging this drum, but the Monkland was crucial to the West of Scotland's industrial growth. Once it was linked to the Forth & Clyde via the Cut of Junction there was a direct route for bulk transport from the inland coal and iron districts all the way to the sea.

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about wildlife We love Still Life on a Round Table painted in 1969 by Arbroath-born William Littlejohn (1929-2006). Can you spot the wildlife? artuk.org/discover/art... @rgulibrary.bsky.social @hospitalfield.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1770 work began on the Monkland Canal under the supervision of James Watt. The 1st stretch was west from Sheepford in what is now #Coatbridge The photo shows Calderbank Quay in 1868 www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/the-mo... #OTD 1/3

Opening this Saturday 28th June, Everything Flows: Music in North Lanarkshire! An exhibition celebrating the local music scene which produced so many iconic acts! Come see backstage passes, costumes, instruments, fanzines and more! Everything Flows open at Summerlee Museum from this Saturday! 💃🎵🎸

22 June 1792: birth of James Beaumont Neilson, inventor of the Hot Blast Process that transformed the iron industry. It kick-started the next phase of Scotland's industrial transformation though a new generation of ironworks like Summerlee in Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/hot-bl...

What links palm oil, West Africa and a Victorian Scottish factory? Discover a forgotten colonial story on our museum collections website www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/palm-o...

1/2 We need your help! Do you have any pics we could use for our memory walks of nights at the Miners Institutes and Welfares from 1950s to 1980s. Fashions, dancing and food and drink. Take a quick snap on your mobile and follow the thread….. #mininghistory #miningcommunities

📢Applications are open for the Creative Minds Fund. Accredited & non-Accredited museums in Scotland can apply for grants of up to £25,000 to develop programming that includes and benefits people experiencing mental health issues. Applications close 9th July 2025. 🔗Find out more: buff.ly/WSNqtI6

The theme of this week's #onlineartexchange is #ocean so let's whet our appetites for the holiday season with 'Monte Carlo' by Gabriel Deschamps (1919-2011) a painter who specialised in sun-drenched landscapes in the south of France artuk.org/discover/art...

Perfect weather for today’s @northlanarkshire.gov.uk Artwalk on the Ravenscraig Steel Works site. It was led by Tine Collective artists Frank McElhinney & Hamshya Rajkumar who explained how nature has reclaimed the site 1/3

#OTD in 1895 Hartwood Hospital near Shotts officially opened. Then known as the Lanark District Asylum it initially provided accommodation for up to 500 patients. During the 20th century it expanded to a capacity of 2,000 patients. It closed its doors in 2001.

Due to unforeseen circumstances our event at Cumbernauld Library this afternoon has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We are planning to hold the event at a new date.

📢 Hiring Now - Project Archivist! Project: 'Jean Stone Collection: celebrating influential women in the Paralympic Movement' ♿ 🗓️ Contract Date: Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 (8 months) 📝 Closing Date: Fri 30th May 2025 #MuseumEd 💻 For details & to apply, visit: www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/news/project...

For #LocalHistoryMonth join us at #CumbernauldLib to hear from North Lanarkshire Council's archivist about the records of the Cumbernauld Development Corporation and how to use them. To book a free place call 01236 632702. For more info: culturenl.co.uk/bz9s #ArchivesRevealed

Mill owner & ironmaster Henry Houldsworth (1774-1853) was one of the giants of Scotland’s industrial story. However, he & his family had deep links to Atlantic slavery. Read the story here www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/the-ho...

#OTD in 1819 the world’s 1st iron passenger vessel the Vulcan was launched into the Monkland Canal at Faskine A full-size replica was built for the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival & is now at Summerlee Museum. Find out more on our collections website www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/the-ir...