We’re sharing one of visitor favourites for #OnlineArtExchange this week, the impressive Basilica of San Marco! 🖼️Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice 👨‍🎨John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882) 📸Sheffield Museums

There’s a Victorian theme for #OnlineArtExchange today. We’re sharing a slightly different view of a Victorian school than expected; the children playing while their teacher is away! 🖼️When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play 👨‍🎨Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821–1901) 📸Sheffield Museums

The theme for #OnlineArtExchange is ceramics this week, so we’re sharing a cuppa with these dainty tea cups ☕ @artukdotorg.bsky.social 🖼️Still Life with Tea Cups 👨‍🎨Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1629/1630–1700) 📸Sheffield Museums

The theme for this week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is Time, so we’ve chosen this study depicting the ripening of a cherry 🖼️Three States of Fruit (from 'Bud to Fruit: The Life History of a Cherry') 👨‍🎨William H. Gill (1839–1923) 📸Sheffield Museums

Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️ 🖼️A Sketch in Wales 👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845) 📸Sheffield Museums

We’re beaming onto your television screens for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange today, sharing this charming work by Conrad Atkinson. 🖼️Goldfish 👨‍🎨Conrad Atkinson (1940–2022) 📸Sheffield Museums

Behind every object in Weston Park Museum is a life lived and a story shared, just like Orville Fuller’s! 🧵

Tour of #Sheffield 's Lake District anyone? Beautiful on a day like today ☀️ From the collections at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is smells in art for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 at Watts Gallery 👃🌸 "The Sense of Smell" by David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to) From @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #Art #BlueSkyArt #Flowers @artukdotorg.bsky.social

It’s all about scent and smells for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today! So taking inspiration from this gentleman and stopping to smell the roses: 🖼️The Sense of Smell 👨‍🎨David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to) 📸Sheffield Museums

🎉Hooray for 150 years of Weston Park Museum!🎉 Today, we announced a host of family activities, talks and tours, exhibitions and displays to mark 150 years of life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled museum experiences in Sheffield 👏👏👏 Find out more here: www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/wes...

We’re sharing one of Claudette Johnson’s works for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange this week, to coincide with the new Jenny Savile exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, exploring the female form 🎉 🖼️Untitled 👨‍🎨Claudette Johnson (b.1959) 📸Sheffield Museums

We’re taking a dip in the Cornish ocean to celebrate the new Sea State exhibition at Wolterton Park @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange ⛵ 🖼️Mevagissey, Cornwall 👨‍🎨Stanley Royle (1888–1961) 📸Sheffield Museums

In honour of #BBCspringwatch being filmed up the road at Longshaw, here's some natured-themed children's magazines from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (last one probably frowned on)

It’s Landscape week for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange so we’re sharing this beautiful, sunny painting of the River Don 🏞️ 🖼️River Don at Wardsend, Sheffield 👨‍🎨William James Stevenson (1835–1905) 📸Sheffield Museums

"Sheffield's collections came from around the world, some dating back 150 years ago this year. There is an active conversation about should they, shouldn’t they, return objects" We're at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social asking: should museums return objects? 🖼️ #FofD #Sheffield

Kelham in colour. Kelham Island @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #flowersandtowers in the week of #RHSChelsea @visitsheffield.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org

It’s all about birds for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today, to celebrate the new exhibition at Panlee House Gallery 🐦 we’re keeping it coastal with this study of a gull 🖼️White-Winged Silvery Gull 👨‍🎨John James Audubon (1785–1851) 📸Sheffield Museums

The theme for the #OnlineArtExchange this week is Fabulous fashion 💃 What better way to celebrate than getting a new dress fitted! 🖼️The New Frock 👨‍🎨Frederick William Elwell (1870–1958) 📸Sheffield Museums

We’re travelling to Cumbria for #OnlineArtExchange this week, linking with Winifred Nicholson’s Cumbrian Rag Rugs exhibition at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social 🖼A Mill Stream in Eskdale, Cumbria 👨‍🎨Thomas Creswick (1811–1869) 📸Sheffield Museums

We’re celebrating Easter for #OnlineArtExchange this week! 🐰🐣 🎉 @artukdotorg.bsky.social We’re ignoring the chocolate 😉 and sharing this beautiful painting of an egg seller 🥚🍳 🖼The Egg Seller 👩‍🎨Margaret Deborah Cookesley (1837–1927) 📸Sheffield Museums

The Millennium Gallery café, Ambulo, has been ranked one of the top 50 museum cafés in the UK in @theguardian.com 👏☕🍰💐 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Tues 8th April is our talk at Showroom 5 in Sheffield. Our last talk for spring 2025 explores the origins of Sheffield's first public museum 150 years ago. Collections of the Literary & Philosophical Society from private house to public facility in 1875 with Alistair McLean 🏦 bit.ly/41Y7rhA

For today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange we’re looking at biodiversity. We’re sharing an insect study to celebrate the relaunch of Cornwall Museum! 🎉 🖼Study of Insects with Foliage 👨‍🎨Edward Donovan (1768–1837) 📸Sheffield Museums

We’re celebrating Spring with a sunlit farm scene for today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange with @dulwichgallery.bsky.social 💐🌷🌸🐑 🖼Sheep in a Landscape 👩‍🎨Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) 📷Sheffield Museums 💛💛💛

Today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates Katherine Gili’s exhibition at Chippenham Museum & Women’s History Month We've chosen this powerful sculpture, Eve, by Edna Manley, a Jamaican born artist and educator 🌟 🎨Eve 👩‍🎨Edna Manley (1900–1987) 📸Sheffield Museums

💥BIG NEWS💥 Here's your full lineup for Festival of Debate 2025! 🎉 Join us in Sheffield for the UK's biggest politics festival, with more than 50 events exploring responses to some of the most urgent issues of our time. Discover the programme ➡️ festivalofdebate.com #FofD #Sheffield #Politics

My wife and self tried our best to get out of Kelham Mills and into the street, but had to make our way back into [the] house, and only just managed it. Carried Mrs Andrews back into house. The prayer book was found in the mud after the receding of the water”.

In 1917 William Andrews donated this prayer book to the city’s museum collections, and remembered: “My house was on the premises of John Charles & Sons, Kelham Forge and Rolling Mills. The water was between 5 & 6ft in my house. 2/3

Reflecting today on the #Sheffield Flood of 11-12th March 1864, which caused such devastation and loss. Prayer book salvaged after the flood, on display in Weston Park Museum @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (1/3)

News from the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: the 170 year old Abbeydale steam engine is powered for the 21st century! We replaced its old steam boiler with an electric drive, keeping it turning at ~12 RPM. Ready for the Spring reopening of the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet on Thursday 3 April!

Today's #OnlineArtExchange focuses on historical conflicts for The Armitt's 'A Battle of Ambleside’ And so we're sharing: 🖼Wellington's March from Quatre Bras to Waterloo 👨‍🎨Ernest Crofts (1847–1911) 📸Sheffield Museums

Some important works going on at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet this week with @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social 🍃 Excavating 4 small test pits on the location of the proposed play area to understand how that area may have been used in the past.

Come and join us in kicking off #BSW25 and #SheffieldScienceFestival with our lovely friends @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social. Our adult only evening event is all about nature and Science, with more than a little bit of art thrown in

Celebrating LBGTQ+ History Month for #OnlineArtExchange 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTplusHM25 🖼Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) 👨‍🎨Thomas Binney Gibbs (1870–1947) 📸 Sheffield Museums 🙏Edward Carpenter - Sheffield-based pioneer of LGBTQ rights, women’s rights and environmentalism; writer, campaigner, radical sandal-wearer.

Whoop! This is going to be a great event! 🔬Whether you're a science pro or just curious, this is your chance to explore, experiment and we can't wait to welcome you! 👇 📆 Thu 6 Mar, 7-10pm 📍 Millennium Gallery

What a day: our first post on Bluesky and a new exhibition! 🚀 🚨These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture is now open at the Millennium Gallery! 💛 See rarely seen sculptures by John Hoyland alongside a spectacular assembly of contemporary sculpture ✨

Millennium Gallery @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social is shining a spotlight on Sheffield-born abstract artist John Hoyland (1934–2011) this spring, with his paintings and sculptures. Find out more about the artist in our profile from our Meet the Locals archive > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/meet-the-loc...

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