MUSIC IN THE HEART OF BLACKBURN - 2025/26 Season We're please to announce we're hosting an incredible series of performances in our Victorian Gallery, featuring some of the most exciting musicians based in the UK today! For tickets and further info, click the link below! linktr.ee/blackburnmus...

The Nature of Gothic: Reflecting the Natural World in Historic and Contemporary Artistic Practice. Inspired by John Ruskin’s phrase “the nature of gothic”, this exhibition explores how artists across centuries have represented the natural world. 📅 On until Saturday 13th December 2025.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is all about glamour! ✨ in celebration of the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition, 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World'. Here's a portrait of Beaton taken in 1933 by Francis Goodman 📸 Image credit: National Portrait Gallery

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the reopening of The Harris! 🥳 We can't wait to visit and see this icon back on display. 💛 🖼 'Pauline in the Yellow Dress' c.1944 by Herbert James Gunn 🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is #Ceramics for 'Mella Shaw: Sounding Line' at The McManus, Dundee 🏛 The perfect opportunity to share a sneak peek of a newly acquired series of work by Nehal Aamir... 👀 🥀 The Nature of Gothic Opening Saturday 13th September, 2025

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is #Time for 'Tony Foster: Exploring Time' at Cornwall Museum! We're sharing some of the incredible Self-portraits by Rembrandt. Did you know, he created almost 100 self-portraits including over 40 paintings, 31 etchings and about 7 drawings?

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange theme is Time, for 'Tony Foster: Exploring Time' at #Conwall #Museum. This is "Day and Night" by Edward Robert Hughes (1851 -1914).

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Welsh art, in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️ Here's 'Self-Portrait' c.1902 by Gwen John, from the story "Sixteen wonderful Welsh artists" Discover more by clicking below! artuk.org/discover/sto... 📸 Tate

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is film and cinema for 'May The Toys Be With You' at Lynn Museum 🙌 Here's 'French Silent Cinema Audience', c.1914 by Eugène Forel! 🎥 🏛 The Cinema Museum © the copyright holder. Image credit: The Cinema Museum 🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

Excited to welcome Alys Rouncefield of @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social as our new Community Lead for Local History Hub Blackburn with Darwen! 👏 Alys brings real passion for inclusive heritage education—making sure every young person feels part of their local story. #LocalHistoryHub #BlackburnMuseum

How this heat has us feeling on #SummerSolstice! 🥵☀️

Today's #OnlineArtExchange: Contemporary art depicting the female form. 🎨 👩‍🎨 We've chosen, 'I Lay Here For You' c.2018 by Tracey Emin 💭 Larger than life, powerful and at ease, the sculpture presents a radically different view of woman’s place in nature. 👇👇 🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

LAST CHANCE! Final few days of ROVERS150 ⚽🏛️ 2025 marks 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club. Through the highs and the lows, this exhibition celebrates some of the fan’s favourite moments, and the treasured memories of those united by their love of Rovers.

Guess what? Today marks our 151st anniversary! 🏛🎈🎉 📸 Photograph of the Blackburn Library and Museum Staff, 1910 📸 Photograph of the Blackburn Library and Museum Staff, 1934 📸 Photograph of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Staff, 2024

Did you know todays marks #WorldOceansDay? 🌊 Here's some of our favourite seascapes in the collection! 🖼 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' by Katsushika Hokusai 🖼 'Rough Weather in the Mediterranean' c.1874 by Henry Moore 🖼 Ejiri (18th Post Station) by Utagawa Hiroshige

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is landscapes for Alfred Wainwright at The Armitt: Museum, Gallery, Library 🏔️ Here's 'Valley with Olive Trees' by Caroline Emily Gray Hill, from the @victoriagallery.bsky.social collection! 🏛️🌳 🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

🔔 VISITOR NOTICE 🔔 Our public toilets will be temporarily closed from tomorrow until early July 2025 due to essential maintenance. We will remain open during this time, and for toilet access you can visit our friendly neighbours at The Making Rooms! We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates @penleehousegallery.bsky.social's Birds for Birds: The Art of Cornwall’s Birdlife exhibition! 🦅 We've chosen: 'Vivien' c.1863 by Frederick Sandys! 🏛 Manchester Art Gallery 🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is #sport to celebrate 150 years of Blackburn Rovers FC @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social We're happy to defend mountaineering as a sport - but we're not so sure about sliding. Auldjo's Party Sliding Down a Snow Slope by John Auldjo, 1828

Today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is sport! 🏇 'Riders' by Norma Salt shows riders in jockeys' silks - a change from the scarlet hunt jackets in the preparatory sketch (see second image). Theme by @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social, celebrating 150 years of BRFC!

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social Here's Stamford Bridge by Orcadian artist Steven MacIver (b.1979) from the Art & Heritage Collections @robertgordonuni.bsky.social

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is sport for 150 years of @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social. We have chosen Physical Training at Witley Camp by Laura Knight. Witley training camp in England was the wartime home for many Canadian WW1 soldiers, and where they prepared for service in France and Belgium.

Laurie Cunningham by Graham Ibbeson, commissioned by LB of Waltham Forest for Coronation Gardens, Leyton, 2017. For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers FC @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social 📷 © Graham Ibbeson. Image: David Ovenden artuk.org/discover/art...

It's sport for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrating 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social ⚽ We've chosen Tennis (triptych, left wing) by Eric Ravilious from Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 🎾🎾

We're on the ball this week as the #OnlineArtExchange has a sports theme celebrating 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club at @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social ⚽ 'Football' by William Barns Wollen from World Rugby Museum #BlackburnRovers #Art #Football @blackburnroversfc.bsky.social

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social ‬ Join in and share your favourite sporting artworks 🏉⚽🎾 'The Young Polo Player' by William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881–1941) 📷 Blackburn Museum

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is fabulous fashion! We HAD to choose The Harris' 'Pauline in the Yellow Dress' by Herbert James Gunn! 💛 The painting caused a sensation when it was exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition and was described as ‘The Mona Lisa of 1944’. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

🔔 Visitor Notice 🔔 Please note our Hart Gallery is currently closed and will reopen for National Festival of Making 2025. During this time, there will be no access to our Hart and Contemporary Art Gallery. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

ROVERS 150 🏆 LAST CHANCE to see the Premier League Trophy! Tomorrow is your last chance to view the Premier League trophy in our #Rovers150 exhibition as it's heading back to Blackburn Rovers to continue the 150th celebrations over there! 🎉 🕚 Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday | 11AM – 4:45PM

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is the colour orange! 🧡 Here's Frederic Leighton's 'Flaming June'. 🔥 Image credit: Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico 🔗 artuk.org/discover/sto...

Exciting news from Local History Hub! 🎉 We've officially launched our new hub in Blackburn with Darwen — building a grassroots network to connect schools, communities, and local heritage.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is rural to celebrate @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social's Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs exhibition! 🧵 Here's 'Hallbankgate' c. 1930 by Winifred Nicholson 🖼️ 🏛️ @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social 🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

Hello! 👋🏛️ We’re BM&AG - one of the first purpose-built free museums outside London, opening our doors in 1874! Explore: 🖼️ 19th & 20th Century British art 📚 Early books and coins 🗾 Japanese prints ✨ Greek & Russian icons, Egyptology, and local history too! 👉 blackburnmuseum.org.uk