We're only 54 followers away from 20,000 on Instagram, so if you don't follow us there, please do! www.instagram.com/maryrosemuse...

Nice job for an early-career heritage professional! 😀 Assistant Museum Manager £28,142 (pro rata) 21 hours a week rustingtonpc.org/rustington-p...

Are you interested in working with us to help engage our customers? We're recruiting for a Customer Advisor position! For more information and to apply, head to the link below. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

Sorted. We turned it off and on again.

Back from the holidays to find the environmental monitoring system is SNAFU. Happy 2026, everyone. 🙄

Happy New Year! This is how Janus works. Good luck. 🤞♥️

Whether you're a knitter or a museum lover, these guys are new to BlueSky and seem worth a follow. Stop arguing. Just do it. 🧐

Looking for a New Years Resolution? Here are a few ideas...

As we reach the end of this year, thank you for every castle climb, Hollytrees visit and recommendation to a friend. See you in 2026 at Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and the Natural History Museum. Plan your next visit: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk

Here are the New Year's resolutions we plan to break in the next week or so: Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄 Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡 Fewer typos 😳 Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐 Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #5 of 10** ✨ One of my favourite windows — a lovely 15th-century depiction of a wren hunting a spider in the Zouche Chapel at York Minster.

Oceanus, with lobsters emerging from his forehead, vomits up two dolphins Was he *being sick on porpoise*? (apologies) Detail from a 4th century floor found at Withington #Roman villa #Gloucestershire and lifted in 1812 📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum Happy last #MosaicMonday of the year

A Roman mosaic in the @romanpalace.bsky.social. The palace is the largest known Roman residence north of the Alps, and has an unusually early date of 75 AD. The colourful mosaics date to the second and third centuries AD. #MosaicMonday

Too many limbs.

Just when we thought The Internet had nothing left to give, it gives us this. 😍 #MosaicMonday Image from fatcatart.com?lang=en.

Same dog. Same hat (probably). Thirteen years difference. 🥰🥰 #SundayHuxley

Could you be our next Events & Development Co-ordinator? 🔥 We are looking for someone confident, organised & driven to execute our exciting events programme. ✨ Fancy working in a small, passionate team in the beautiful South Downs? We'd love to hear from you! www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies

Is it over? Can we come out now?

Will be signing off shortly, in time for Carols from Kings. Hope you all have a LOVELY holiday. 🎅☃️🎄 Thanks for being such an awesome bunch and a very Merry Christmas from all of us, and from The Ghost of Christmas That We Don't Like To Talk About. #CuratorRob

There's currently a massive existential threat to a museum in my hometown. We're hoping that online voices will help protect Banbury Museum from being defunded and shut down. This is a really special place to me & to my family, I'd appreciate help! www.change.org/p/save-banbu...

It's the last #HillfortsWednesday before Christmas 🥳🛖🎄 Regrettably my year in hillforts has been like... 🙄

@zeroand09.com made us a coat of arms!! 🤩😍 We've never felt so medieval and we love it! 🗡️🎪🏰 Best Fishbourne Palace coat of arms posted today will be our Christmas profile pic.

There are many advantages to having round-the-clock roundhouse access, but smoking your own salmon for Christmas might top the list... 🔥 Fancy enjoying eclectic perks like these? Find out more about our vacancy for an Events & Development Coordinator: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies

We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳

#MosaicMonday - Mosaic panel from Hadrian's Villa depicting a rocky landscape with goats by a stream and a statue of Dionysus. Musei Vaticani, Gabinetto delle Maschere.

Hey that's me!

A prospective PhD student visited today. And this happened. #Hypocaustgate

Astronomical #winter starts today. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight with the sun starting to set later each day until Summer Solstice. The mosaic depicts the dancing Genii (protective spirits) of the four seasons. The Genius of winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak.🧵1/2 #Solstice

#SundayHuxley lost an argument with a pond and had to have a bath. He did NOT enjoy it.

Artist friends, can anyone do a nice, elaborate coat of arms with dolphins leaping (maybe? Rampant = standing on hind legs, I think) with swords?

Twas the night before Christmas, When all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, Not even a... PARP!!!!! 🎺💨

While we are intrigued by the inclusion of the "Stone Age" at our *Christmas Through Time* event TOMORROW 🤔, we can promise it's going to be a BANGER.

The pre-Christmas glimpse of the @romanpalace.bsky.social Ceefax page is undoubtedly the top @bsky.app highlight of 2025. More of this please 🥰🥳 #VillaNotVilla

Stop your doomscrolling and read this!

Is it wrong that my first thought was "This is about @romanpalace.bsky.social, isn't it?"

We've just been accused of being "small" and "niche-interest" 😐

We had literally almost nothing to do with this, but are happy to take every ounce of credit we can.

Saving a museum would be a pretty cool thing to do for Christmas, wouldn't it? You know what to do, you awesome bunch....

I hope you like seafood, because this mosaic floor is showing what’s on the menu. 🦞 🐟 Said to be from Populonia, in Tuscany, this mosaic emblema was probably part of the floor of a triclinium, a dining room, of a patrician villa. That lobster is magnificent. 🏺 #mosaicmonday 1/ 📸 me

Happy Birthday, Nero!!! We can't believe you all forgot. 😭

#MosaicMonday They absolutely nailed the grape treaders and the carts. They just about finished the bust.... and then the "Vines" key got stuck down. 😳 📷-By Wombatjpw - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

Something tells us that this boi isn't going for a walk this morning. #SundayHuxley

This guy is out of control. 🙄

1 min 40secs in, and This old bloke we've never heard of but may have once stood in our hypocaust calls us a "Villa". 🤨 @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - we may have a vacancy.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce1J...

What? The largest collections of in situ Roman mosaics in Britain not enough for you? Sheesh... 🙄 So come to the Palace TOMORROW and there will be music too, you heathen. Included in the admission price... more deets here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/sounds...

Full marks for this outstanding discovery. 😃 But minus several million for the horrible animation. 🧐 www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

It's not a pig. It's a capybara.

Just got my official work PPE and now off down the secret passage to my paid government job hiding the evidence for all those ship timbers, swordfights on spiral stairs, and Britain's oldest pub. THEY don't want you to know but the truth can be found in Youtube comments...

Cat owners will totally relate to top left.

Hey, @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social. Friend of yours? archaeologymag.com/2025/12/egyp...