Today is #QueenslandDay in our part of the world--the day when we celebrate separation and independence from the colony of New South Wales in 1859. The photos are from "The Courier Mail" 1965 & 1966 Annuals and project images of how the State viewed itself 60 years ago.

Is fire a feature of your environment? It is of ours. We call them "bushfires". Do you have a different name for them? This site on the Scenic Rim Story Trail records one of the stories that reflect the natural world of the Scenic Rim. arcg.is/14Lai #Museums4ThePlanetMW #MuseumWeek

The Rare Book Week program is LIVE! We're so excited to be presenting 'Making Public Histories: Why Republics Die'. rarebooksmelbourne.com

A lovely day to look out to sea and #ShooglyHolm, the floating sculpture atop a marine habitat mooring that highlights climate change and the marine environment, using citizen science to creatively cope with eco anxiety. ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp #MuseumWeek #Museums4ThePlanet #WorldEnvironmentDay

Here’s our Museum Climate Change Exhibitions and Outreach Officer Katy Firth doing some maintenance on the #shooglyholm floating sculpture by artist Jenny Pope yesterday. 🌊 🤿 Find out more about the buoyant sculpture and its underwater bug hotel mooring on our website: shorturl.at/YRFQO 🦀🪸

Day 5 of #MuseumWeek is linked to #WorldEnvironmentDay We're resharing our Julie's Bicycle article from 2024: "Barnsley Museums wants to take sustainable, biodiverse and environmentally friendly approaches in our work, to benefit our venues and the wildlife that live there...

For #Museums4ThePlanetMW, we’re looking to connect with museums, heritage places and living-heritage practitioners in our part of the world: SE Qld, Australia, the near Pacific and Asia-Pacific. What environments — physical, social, cultural or political — are shaping your work? #MuseumWeek

When this dress arrived at OTB, it had already lived a long life. Look closely at the beautiful, beaded hem of this dress and think of the nights it spent swinging away as its wearer danced an energetic Charleston, spilling champagne onto a crowded dancefloor. #MuseumsWeek #IfObjectsCouldSpeakMW

Day 3 of #MuseumWeek invites us: “…to share what their collections, exhibitions, and programs say about peace, past, fragile, or still to be built.” This field note offers a few of our thoughts open.substack.com/pub/heritage... #Heritage4Peace #MuseumsAndConflict #CultureForPeace #MemoryAndPeace

This beautiful ribbed sake bottle is from 17th–century Japan. On each of the ribbed sections, the character fuku (good luck) is repeated seven times. Decorating it with multiple fuku characters in this way expressed a wish for health and prosperity.

On Day 2 of #MuseumWeek "museums are invited to share their visions of what is coming: ... imagined futures rooted in present realities." It seems to us that developments reminiscence technologies may hold a few lessons here. #AIFuturesMW

This piece probably won't excite many following #MuseumWeek. But we're having a go at identifying some of the more mundane uses of #AI in the context of changes taking place in Australian #privacy law later this year. www.linkedin.com/posts/herita... #AIinPracticeMW #HumanAndAIMW #AIandHeritageMW

Well that's awkward 😳 When you ask a chatbot to recommend UK Museums to follow on Bluesky and it doesn't think to recommend Barnsley Museums 😩 Not the start to #MuseumWeek we hoped for if we're being honest #AIMuseumsMW

We are a heritage writing practice grounded in cultural care, writing from the perspective of the Imaginative Visitor. Here’s a brief sketch of how we notice. open.substack.com/pub/heritage... And here is how AI has found a place at our workbench. #AIinPracticeMW #HumanAndAIMW #AIandHeritageMW

Greetings from Heritage People. We are joining #MuseumWeek, this year, from Yugambeh country in S. E. Queensland's Scenic Rim. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the elders and traditional owners and custodians of these lands--the bearers of memory and story.

Cooking our cakes this weekend in preparation for #MuseumWeek.

Government talking tough on Brisbane Olympic site development. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

What changes when we visit a museum or heritage place not as custodians, but as attentive guests? We’re wondering whether visiting itself can become a form of care. open.substack.com/pub/heritage...

Happy new month and the start of #MuseumWeek we'll be getting involved with the daily themes right after we've had our first cuppa (milk, one sugar) #WorldMilkDay

💭 This #VolunteersWeek is a chance to learn more about the role of volunteers in the public library sector. ✍️ Our report presents insights into who volunteers in libraries. 🖱️It also explains how their contributions support digital inclusion. www.librariesconnected.org.uk/resources/vo...

Happy International Museum Day! In celebration we're bringing back the emoji game. Reply with an emoji and we'll find something from our collections. #InternationalMuseumDay

We're going to start a campaign to make #InternationalMuseumDay a bank holiday. We'd also like to say hello to the two volunteer run museums in Barnsley, Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum and the Maurice Dobson Museum & Heritage Centre

ICOM (International Council on Museums) declared the 2026 Museum Day theme to be: Museums Uniting a Divided World. We have our permanent and feature galleries full of diverse voices and stories!

Monday is International Museum Day and admission will be Pay What You Can! Plus, select Heritage Minutes published by Historica Canada will be played continuously for you to view all day!

International Museum Day: Hamburg museums with free admission https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/internationaler-museumstag-hamburger-museen-mit-freiem-eintritt,kurzehh-3218.html more #Hamburg #news at: https://hamburgnews.observer

Happy International Dance Day! This red figure hydria in the British Museum shows a dancing lesson talking place. The Phiale Painter, Athens, c 430 BCE BM 1873,0820.354 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

In Bilbao for the first time since 1973. Changed. The Guggenheim is extraordinary. Free on International museum day there are many people - but there is room. Beautiful lifetime exhibition of work by Ruth Aswara.

There's been a huge interest in our #MuseumBridge webinar on 22 May, thank you! 🙌 📝 If you’ve signed up, we’d love your input, please take a couple of minutes to fill out our feedback form and help shape the session 👇 🔗 buff.ly/Zx5NMp6 #Museums #HeritageSector #ProfessionalDevelopment #Webinar

📰🏛️ This week’s #museum #news: 🌍 International Council of Museums (ICOM) – International Museum Day 2026 highlights the role of museums in diplomacy, cultural exchange and global cooperation #IMD2026 buff.ly/xqlXSsc

#teamicomuk had a fantastic time at the Museum + Heritage Show! Brilliant conversations, fresh ideas, and a great chance to connect with others across the sector. Thanks to everyone who came by 👋 #MandHshow #network @museumsandheritage.com

We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Many of our prospectuses help us chart the changing landscape of #Leicester and @dmu.ac.uk campus, but one of our #maplover faves for #InternationalMapDay is this cover from 1933-34. @librarydmu.bsky.social #alumni #MapMonday #ThrowbackThursday

Congratulations to Captain Marty and Lisa Woods of Sydney Harbour Tall Ships on the inclusion of Søren Larsen and Southern Swan in the Australian Register of Historic Vessels. 👉 Explore the Australian Register of Historic Vessels here: https://arhv.sea.museum/collections

Continuing on my neverending quest to ensure unsigned copies of my book become a collector's edition!!! 😅 Thanks at @gaystheword.bsky.social, it never stops being awesome seeing 'Queer As Folklore' in your hallowed halls.

The Helicoprion puzzled scientists for years, who couldn't figure out where to place its spiral-shaped jaw loaded with teeth. Dr. Nathan Lujan (Curator of Fishes) @potamophile.bsky.social sheds some light on this mysterious, extinct shark. Learn more at Sharks, on now through March 22!

This #RemembranceDay, we honour the submariners of AE2. Before the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli, AE2 became the first Allied submarine to breach the Dardanelles, “running amok” to disrupt enemy supply lines. Scuttled after five days of daring action, all 35 crew survived.

🌊 On this day in 1914, the guns of HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden met off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in what became the Royal Australian Navy’s first sea battle. Diagram by Albert M. Barker, drawn from the captains’ original sketches, maps the courses of both ships during the battle. 00029824 #WWI

SUNDAY READ: After decades of beach walks, Mark and Lucy Longden found something extraordinary buried in the sand between Ocean Grove and Point Lonsdale, the remains of a wooden ship, possibly lost more than a century ago. ⚓️ https://loom.ly/Hagya8c Photo: Rodney Nicholson

And the answer is an amazing 46 metres - that's a lot of fabric!

📅 Tomorrow (4th Nov) is #AskAConservator Day! Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes to preserve our collections? This annual event is your chance to ask all your conservation-related questions! 🧤📚✨ 💬 Drop your questions about #conservation in the comments below!

Handcraft a harvest knot with heritage straw worker Penny Maltby, just one of many craft activities to try at our Late Night launching the new MultakaOxford display & trail 'With These Hands', celebrating crafts from across the globe. Fri 7 Nov, 7-10pm. Free but booking required. bit.ly/46fZNBd

Curious about a #DisputeResolution strategy born at the intersection of #disability and #accessibility? @workaccord.bsky.social wrote reviews of every chapter in my book focused on using Structured Negotiation with #veterans in #Australia www.lflegal.com/2025/11/stru... #BookSky #ConflictResolution

I listened to Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social speaking, last night, about the need for our Australian politicians (and electors) to develop the skill, sophistication & imagination to work with minority governments. Some of the most insightful political commentary I've heard in a long while.

When our education systems produce #SignificantLearning - the ability to appreciate the human dimension of the subject, to care about it, and to learn how to learn - they may begin to produce greatness once more. - Acknowledging L. Dee Fink (2013) "Creating Significant Learning Experiences".

Lately, I've been reflecting on my #DisputeResolution work as something closely related to #LearningDesign, allowing us to bring the human dimensions of a dispute to light and to create space for collaborative and care-full attentiveness, response, and redress. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

It's not easy to model the trust expected of others when drafting an invitation to negotiate. Often, it goes against instinct and training. It might also set up the need for an internal negotiation with your own client. www.linkedin.com/pulse/readin... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation

#StructuredNegotiation and a moment of synchronicity ... perhaps? Reflections on Ch.5 "Write an Invitation to Negotiate" in @lflegal.bsky.social "Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits - 2nd edition", 2021.

Revisiting past reflections as I've been working, this week, with the topic of #fairness in the context of public sector conflicts & disputes in cases where there may be no legal claim to support a cause of action - only a hope of fairness following moral injury. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26...

In our reading of Lainey Feingold's (2021) Structured Negotiation 2nd ed, we are discovering that “the Right Thing to Do” may be established in relational rather than in legal space. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation #ADRDesign

The Spark we bear is a holy pilgrimage As the Universe learns through our choices & experiences revealing a fundamental truth that Love persists _________________ Inspired by the Soul’s unique & sacred journey … #MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn adeaconsmusing.ca