Happy Halloween! 🎃🪦👻💀🐈‍⬛ Which Barnsley Museums #CreepyDoll best describes you today? 🤔 #MuseumTwitter please feel free to reply with an alternative doll! #Halloween #Halloween2022

What a lovely review and feature by Museum Crush on our exhibition 📷#ResurrectingAncientEgypt designed and curated by Prof #joannfletcher Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher and on loan from the very generous Barnsley Museums 👍

This week's Museum Crush Digest sees the launch of our Patreon Page patreon.com/museumcrush - we're fundraising to keep going right now! Plus there's Art Deco dolls house furniture, naughty Fuseli, Folklore costume and museum dioramas mailchi.mp/culture24/muse…

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Today... Sussex Downs looking exactly like this over yonder. A winter Ravilious favourite showing at Towner Eastbourne for their exciting 2023 centenary - with Turner Prize 2023, Barbara Hepworth, Unseen stuff etc etc... 🙂Check Museum Crush soon for more.

Thread 👇 Please vote for Garden City Collection in the 2023 Herts Association of Museums 'Object of the Year' Award!... We've won it twice before and I'm greedy for the trophy again!! 🏆

…don’t you know some people say, the winter is the best time of them all… #neilyoung #homeworking

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and the Path to Abstraction – by @culture24editor for Museum Crush museumcrush.org/wilhelmina-bar… #womenartists #artherstory

I don't suppose anyone recognizes this women's football team? c1920s Maybe the mascot is a clue? Or the tie that the the second from the right (back row) seems to be wearing.

Tonight we opened Overlooked Leeds City Museum Leeds Museums & Galleries, an exhibition curated by Preservative Party. I’m so proud of the amazing work they’ve put in over the last two years to give voice to stories from Leeds which have been underrepresented. Thank you 🙌🏻

1931, Smith's Crisp Factory, York Road, from the Leodis archive Smiths produced plain crisps with a twist of blue paper containing salt for seasoning. What's better? ready salted or do it yourself with a little blue bag? leodis.net/viewimage/79762

Àsìkò's moko jumbies on the Northumberland coast. I'd love to see a few of these at Hastings Jack in the Green. Link to interview below.

We're delighted to announce we have acquired the archive of Arthur Scargill, activist and former President of the NUM. The collection will be an invaluable resource covering a significant period of British history. Sheffield Politics and International Relations University of Sheffield Library sheffield.ac.uk/news/arthur-sc…

🎶📣DD Day 2023 artists commission callout is go!📣🎶 1 NW England mid-career visual artist + 1 sound/music artist. Deadline 10 July. Brighter Sound have similar opp for early career artists. PS. u don't have to like Doctor Who. The National Lottery Heritage Fund supported. deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2023-ar…

At last! A new Museum Crush email digest heads out later this week with loads of tempting museum objects and stories - like this Tibetan human thigh bone flute from the irresistibly veiled museum of Royal Northern College of Music Subscribe museumcrush.org/email-digest/

A new Museum Crush Digest has landed with a peek inside the Royal Northern College of Music museum, social history archive discoveries in textiles and railways, Brian May's Stereoscopic collection and Margaret Agnes Rope's stained glass mailchi.mp/culture24/muse…

We are thrilled that Esther Esther Appleyard-Fox is nominated for a #NationalLottery Award in the Heritage category, celebrating her work on creating opportunities for D/deaf, disabled + neurodivergent people #NLAwards National Lottery Good Causes The National Lottery Heritage Fund curatingforchange.org/2023/07/25/cur…

The Wigan Casino is perhaps the most famous Northern Soul venue. Though it had been a club since the mid-1960s, it was not until 1973 that the venue’s first ‘all-nighter’ dance event was held, and it quickly became legendary. ➡️ bit.ly/HistoricNorthe…

We have got a special article for #BlackHistoryMonth by Stephen Bourne who tells us about his Aunt Esther, a volunteer firewatcher in #WW2. Find out more here orlo.uk/XIIET #BHM2023 #CelebratingOurSisters