
claire sleightholm
@clairesholm
Tullie House’s Assistant Curator, Art UK’s Northern England Coordinator, and museum geek. All opinions my own.
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03-07-2018 20:28:10
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#Rodin #thethinker now on display at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. John Bowness from BBC Cumbria ponders what the iconic sculpture could be thinking...








Finishing touches to the newly refurbished Japan galleries British Museum. Taking inspiration for our own refurbishments before our @TullieHouse meeting here




One for the Cumbrians. Our store audit of the photographic archive @TullieHouse is turning up some unexpected blasts from the past. Eric Wallace and Fiona Armstrong opening one of our exhibitions. Anyone remember them being on ITV News Border? #Carlisle #Cumbria #museums







Findings of the Not So Grim Up North research project, being launched on Wed 7 Nov, 3-5pm at Great North Museum: Hancock, show positive impact of museums on health and wellbeing. Download the report here ow.ly/BAh930mwcTd Arts Council England MUSEUMS NORTH Museums Association



Photographing dirty women: why was photography invented? 📽️Watch Professor Sarah Edge presenting at #resfestbelfast Ulster Museum & check out her book 'The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century' amzn.to/2DpIDoD


Great news! Two collections from the north of England are included in these first of many thousands to come: thanks to WordsworthTrust and Preston Park Museum for being our pioneers.