Tell me you’re a social media manager on a small budget without telling me you’re a social media manager on a small budget

Someone has left a four pack of baked beans at the museum entrance, is this a gift or a threat

Very proud of our Young Historians group, for this and their ability to eat a family pack of biscuits in 0.8 seconds

With #ValentinesDay almost upon us, this clip from our archive caught our eye: a charming throwback to when we were the city's hottest dating spot. It seems only fitting that you can even tie the knot here these days! Do you have fond memories of canoodling at the Castle? 💕

A guy just came to the museum and gave me a cartridge for a miniature pistol in the collection so I can confidently say I’ve received the weirdest Valentine today

does anyone have any recommendations for basic idiot proof audio editing programmes? Looking to edit oral history recordings but have no idea where to start #museumtwitter

obsessed that one of my volunteers gave an incredibly passionate talk to our after school group this evening about his time with the regiment travelling the world, and then told the kids he had to run because he had tickets to see Cocaine Bear

I am the only woman on our site and I’m utterly obsessed that my colleagues pointed out today is actually roast pork and crackling day apparently

so proud of our gang!!!! (for the past six months of incredible work on the museum podcast, but also for literally making the museum in cake form)

Fantastic week at the National Army Museum for the Regimental Curators Course!! Massive thank you to everyone at the NAM for their time and patience as a complete military history newbie 💂💂

A woman wandered in to reception earlier while I was on FoH and we got chatting about her memories of the war- she apologised for her croaky voice, as I was the only person she’d spoken to that day 😞 I will literally always chat to anyone that wants to chat for this exact reason

I am once again playing “how far can I push this” with my half term trail

we’ve had a pack of biscuits through the museum front door overnight which is random but well appreciated, but realising now how easy it would be to poison me

Tiny old man filled in our visitor survey today while I was on FoH and wrote under suggestions that he thought a glass of sherry on the way round would improve the visitor experience, and he’s not wrong

my favourite phone call from the front desk is the “there are three children locked in the Victorian cell” phone call

some disgusting comments online on the first day of pride month but at the root of it all I’m over the moon to have created a fun safe space for our Young Historians group who have spent their entire exam season doing Gay Crafts with me every week

Did a pigeon just fly at me when I walked in to the museum stock room? Yes. Did I scream very loudly? Yes. Did my colleagues move a single inch from their desks 5 metres away? …. No

I did PowerPoint night with our after school group where they could present on any topic of their choosing as long as it was vaguely history related- and it was genuinely the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. God bless teenagers

work experience student giving me foolproof museum fundraising ideas

First day!!!