Great discussion here about the future of museums with @benansell.bsky.social @tonybutler1.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social Sara Wajid and Sharon Ament. Culture, community and cash at the heart of the debate. Give it a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Rethink... museums On 23 January - @tonybutler1.bsky.social Sara Wajid and Stephen Bush from the @financialtimes.com debated the future of museums on BBC Radio's Rethink. Available now on BBC Sounds - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #BBCRethink

Listen here Rethink with @benansell.bsky.social @bbcradio4.bsky.social with Sharon Ament @londonmuseum.bsky.social Sara Wajid, @stephenbush.bsky.social Asking, what are museums for? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Timely discussion on the future of museums with @stephenkb.bsky.social Derby’s @tonybutler1.bsky.social and Birmingham’s Sara Wajid.

Are you intrigued by the current closures of museums? Please consider following my facebook page Save Our Museums (UK) where I share media stories relating to museum cuts and closure. www.facebook.com/SaveOurMuseu...

I walked across the fields from our friends’ house at 1am last night. Bright moonlight, clear skies and stars illuminated our church.

Saluting the sun #Aldeburgh

I’m hugely thrilled but you’re only as good as the people you work with and I have worked with amazing people over the years. Thank you to them. derbymuseums.org/news/tony-bu...

The new configuration of the rooms at Pickford’s House Derby Museums is first class. Gone are the velvet ropes, barriers and out of date interpretation. Visitors can walk all the way around the rooms and find out new stories of people who made the house their home.

Just maybe, a more fitting legacy for Her Majesty would be using that £46m to sustain an existing network of regional civic museums throughout the land. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

Loving the school that’s come all the way from Stoke on Trent to Derby Museum for one of our fabulous sessions on the ‘Stone Age’.

The Museum of Making was visited by residents from Kiwi care home today. I had the pleasure of meeting Dennis who worked at the former Derby Industrial Museum for 20 years. I hope they visit again soon.

Enjoying Flaneuring round the free stuff of London. Barbican Guildhall British Museum Royal Opera House

Lovely morning with Sir Tim Smith founder @edenproject.bsky.social Under gaze of Erasmus Darwin we talked of a new Age of Enlightenment inspired by the natural philosophers of the 18th century. The observation and understanding of nature helped them make sense of their place in the world.

I owe @HeritageFundUK much in my working life #ThanksToYou My 1st job - Wakefield supported an application in 1997. Abbot’s Hall 2.4m project 2008-12 @FoodMuseumUK. The 17m awarded to @derbymuseums since 2002 includes @MuseumofMaking. Now Commitee member @HeritageFundM_E

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The new Labour govt addressing the scandalous state of children’s social care should be cheered. #r4today Private companies profiteering from the most vulnerable children should shame us all

I have a lot of time for Roy Jenkins. Written 65 years ago in The Case for Labour.

Great to see Derby North MP Catherine Atkinson @ Museum of Making today with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site team. Being Southern gateway to this UNESCO inscribed site is important to us Derby Museums, placing us firmly with the historic landscape of the birth of the factory system.

I’ve been enjoying reading the responses from the brilliant young people who joined @derbymuseums National Saturday Club this year. They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink. Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!

I have a lot of time for Roy Jenkins. Written 65 years ago in The Case for Labour.

I’ve been enjoying reading the responses from the brilliant young people who joined @derbymuseums National Saturday Club this year. They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink. Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!

Great to see Derby North MP Catherine Atkinson @ Museum of Making today with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site team. Being Southern gateway to this UNESCO inscribed site is important to us Derby Museums, placing us firmly with the historic landscape of the birth of the factory system.

That’s a great idea. Last 4 museum visits National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo Jektefartsmuseet, Bodø Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Taylor’s Bellfoundary, Loughborough

In the Museum of Making in Derby on the matter if the first day of the Derby CAMRA beer festival #Derby #Beer #Museums

Re Attendance gap - I wrote a blog about creating a habitual diverse audience before Covid #museums2024 tonybutler1.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/w...

In the Attendance Gap session with Mark O’Neil et al. Derby Museums was involved with this project at its start. Here is some non-visitor research that reinforces the challenges he sets out cms.derbymuseums.org/wp-content/u... #museums2024

“Decolonisation is a first step but where is the archiving of Black Britain?” throughout our established institutions says Michelle Gayle #museums2024

Powerful and inspiring address from Michelle Charters, we should “recognise the history that is coming to light should not make us afraid.” #museums2024

Stark choices #museums2024

Regional Civic Museums are net lenders to National Museums. #museums2024

All of the men who have audio described their appearance #museums2024 have made a joke about how they look

Steve Miller doing a great job of giving Presidential Address and MC-ing Museums Change Lives #museums2024

My personal highlight of #museums2024 is the presentation of the Accounts. Mo Suleman former FD Derby Museums.

We’ve got loads of data but as an industry we don’t do enough with it. Need more, clever people to use it to be compelling. #museums2024

Civic museums in England hold a distributed national collection. They are as much sharers of our National cultural heritage as our National Museums based in London. Fund them as such #museums2024

A propos of Tubthumping, my Leeds music vibe #museums2024 m.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjj... Gang of Four

First post on @bsky.app early morning view across Leeds awaiting #museums2024 @museumsassociation.bsky.social Looking forward to a joyful couple of days of positive thinking. Harnessing cultural heritage for good