🚨We have our first submission!🚨 Bins shares the emotional experience of book mending! #ArchiveEmotion #YayArchives

A pinned thread of our Call for Posts. This new project explores the atmosphere, personalities, and histories of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. We want to detail the ways how these interactions can effect its staff, visitors, and surrounding community.

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Last year 5 members of our staff chose their favourite aspects of our museums. Today Susan from Museum of Childhood tells the story of her favourite things in our much-loved Museum of Childhood. ow.ly/ZJYO50EMtGU #toys #childhoodmemories #ArtUnlocks #fridaymorning

For those that can’t live without that archive smell

Archives perception: dusty boxes, mysterious tomes, white cotton gloves Archives reality:

it's always fun seeing a book laid out ceremoniously in a library or museum exhibition, perhaps with a gaggle of nervous 1st year historians poring over it reverently, knowing only two months ago I wrested it (in the form of a dank bundle) from the possession of a sewer hag

Wonderful thread... archives aren't full of documents, they're full of people, and the human traits that cut across centuries.

This thread about Google Street View being an accidental time capsule of lost loved ones, and the comments from people sharing similar discoveries, are beautiful.

Sure I want people to read the post, but also I’m just really pleased with this picture I made (graphic design is my passion etc) acidfreeblog.com/documentation/…

What's your reading room look book? Stylish (read: warm) jumper for the cold room? Naked nails for the sake of your reading material? A winged eye but no red lip? Your best library themed socks? Your most author like pair of specs?

I see your John Dee ship doodle and I raise you Bodleian Libraries MS Canon Or. 111…

The archivists equivalent to the Hippocratic Oath?👇

I am a ⚪️ man ⚪️ woman 🔘 medievalist sick of staring at manuscript images on a computer all day Looking for a ⚪️ man ⚪️ woman 🔘 physical manuscript that I can run my fingers over whilst day dreaming in a sun flooded archival reading room

Remains of sealing wax on the drawer of a campaign desk. Presumably the drawer itself would be sealed during transit so that any tampering would be evident?

Going through a box of old object labels shows just how much label design has changed Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery over the years