“Thank you" to @museum-week.org for arranging a wonderful 2026 program! And to all whom we have met, peace and hope until we meet again. #MuseumWeek #Gratitude

Day 7 of #MuseumWeek is a day of #hope. Where have you seen a museum exhibit that shows us not just how we were, but how we are? Perhaps even how we might be? open.substack.com/pub/heritage... #MWHope

Para la antropóloga Margaret Mead el primer signo de civilización en la humanidad es un fémur fracturado y sanado. 🤕Esto indica que alguien cuidó a la persona herida hasta su recuperación. Con esta esperanzadora idea terminamos la #MuseumWeek, dedicada hoy a la #EsperanzaMW. @museum-week.org

For Day 7 of #MuseumWeek, we are thinking about the hope a visitor may bring when they enter a museum, gallery, heritage place, archive, memorial, or small garden of memory. What hopes do you carry on your museum visits? open.substack.com/pub/heritage... #HopeMW #TheImaginativeVisitor

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...

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.

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 🦀🪸

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

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

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

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

This article comes from our companion project, "Field Notes from Post-Law Peacemaking". It examines an accord-building framework in the context of Brisbane's Barrambin / Victoria Park Olympic stadium conflict. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... #Heritage4Peace #Museums4PeaceMW #MuseumWeek

Back in primary school, it was common to be given a composition exercise designed to stretch the imagination. A common task was something like this: "Write a composition entitled, 'I am a Penny.' Imagine the story a penny would tell if it could talk. Two pages." #IfObjectsCouldSpeakMW #MuseumWeek

It’s #MuseumWeek, an annual event when museums share themed content to promote cultural institutions around the world. For today’s theme of #Museums4PeaceMW, we offer one artist’s response to times of war that acknowledges both conflict experienced and peace hoped for.

As we celebrate #MuseumWeek, we are highlighting the important role museums play in fostering understanding and connection. By preserving diverse perspectives, challenging biases, and encouraging meaningful dialogue, museums help us learn from the past and work towards a more peaceful future.

Museums tell stories of not only conflict but the constant struggle for peace. Most of our exhibitions share stories of the everyday Australians who campaigned for a peaceful world. Swinging 60s includes protest ephemera, showing the ways people have fought for peace. #Museums4PeaceMW #MuseumWeek

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

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...

On International Museum Day, we celebrate all who work in museums and heritage places, and we say, “Thank you.” At their best, museums create spaces of hospitality in which memory, place, story, and difference can be encountered and appreciated with care.

This note launches a new thread in our writing project: "The Imaginative Visitor." We consider how questions may arise from the places, objects, stories, and practices we visit. What early lessons still shape the way you look at objects, places, and stories? open.substack.com/pub/heritage...

Another Matteo fragment. #OneDipOfThePen sunburntspeculations.com/2026/05/10/m...

We are doing a lunchtime talk for the National Archives today www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...

What could it mean to write about heritage not simply as commentary, but as a practice of care? Beginning with a recent reflection on Welcome to Country and ANZAC Day, this Field Note considers how heritage writing can become more than commentary or advocacy. open.substack.com/pub/heritage...

First meditation on heritage writing as a companionable practice of care. Let us attend these small gardens of memory—you and I. Let us wander with care through their fertile beds. For from the smallest plot may grow the richest fruit.

We are coming to view “Welcome to Country” as a participatory language of public remembrance and repair. Remembrance is never neutral or distant. It draws us into a community of memory and may oblige us to face uncomfortable questions. open.substack.com/pub/heritage...

We are looking forward to #MuseumWeek in June. What do you think is the best social platform for participation? Does anyone participate across more than one platform? Would love to hear your thoughts.

How can heritage writing become a companionable practice of care? That’s the question we’re exploring this month at Heritage People. If you’re also working in museums, heritage, memory, place, public history, or cultural care, we’d love to hear your thoughts.

We've been thinking, this past week, about the place of the Welcome to Country in our solemn remembrance of ANZAC Day. The Welcome to Country asks hard questions of us. But we need not feel importuned by those questions. They're part of what remembrance asks of us. open.substack.com/pub/heritage...

7 months ago, we told the story of the first public library established in Hobart in 1825. Here is the same story differently imagined by Sunburnt Speculations. andycwood.substack.com/p/deborah?r=...

Every 19th Sept. we remember, discover and connect to our time with the Wesley Hobart Museum in Tasmania. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Wesleyan Library - considered by some to have been Australia's first public library. @unitingchurchau.bsky.social heritageppl.com/2025/09/18/r...

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

Museums are incredible places for connection with family & friends – where stories spark conversations & shared discoveries create lasting memories. Start a new tradition with the people who matter most. #museumweek #togethermw #novascotia #visitnovascotia

Games, eh? The Day 3 theme for #MuseumWeek2025. So, this morning @colleenwood.bsky.social and @woodac.bsky.social decided to play charades. We got as far as "Two Words - Title - First Word". After that, it went quickly downhill and ended in hysterics! 🏛️📅 Can you guess? Please share your attempt.

Our thoughts on the #MuseumWeek2025 Day 2 theme - #Movement - turned to #dance in our Asia Pacific region. So, we did a quick check on the @unesco.org #ICH lists. Wow! Such treasures preserved right within in vibrant communities and now protected for the future! ich.unesco.org/en/lists?tex...

In 🌏 🦘 #MuseumWeek2025 has moved on to Day 2 - #movement. One of the best things about participating this year is catching up with old friends and finding new friends who've made the move from other platforms to @bsky.app It's still pretty quiet over here but we do love reading your posts! 🙂

It's day 1 of #MuseumWeek! Today looks at AI and its use in and by Museums. We've found a large increase in referrals to our website by AI, how are you using it? #AIMuseumsMW

Happy International Museum Day! We’re sharing some details of the Alfred Jewel, one of the most popular objects in our collection.

#Opencall for artists! We're looking to commission a Devon/Cornwall-based artist to run a series of 7 workshops with a selection of community groups, working with diverse communities to create textile artworks exploring stories of place. Find out more + apply >>> rammuseum.org.uk/jobs/#artist...

Are you an experienced researcher at @ox.ac.uk or Oxford Brookes University interested in leading a policy-engaged research agenda that will have meaningful local impact, reducing inequalities across Oxfordshire? Check out the Local Policy Lab's latest call: socsci.ox.ac.uk/chief-scient...

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:

Ever wondered what's inside the RCN Headquarters? We have the most beautiful home and you just have to see it! Let us give you a tour and we'll tell you all its secrets. Book here: buff.ly/nMC9Sxm

Claire the Learning and Access Manager and Jennifer the Community Engagement and Development Officer are pleased be presenting at the @museumsandheritage.com on Thursday 15th May. Sharing learning from working to embed creative approaches to health and wellbeing across The Scottish Maritime Museum.

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