One of our fantini GU50’s in the Hartham Park underground workshop ready for servicing. #harthamparkbathstone #bathstone #undergroundmine #britishstone #naturalstone #fantini

📺 Antiques Road Trip episode featuring Museum of Bath Stone premiers this week! Series 26, Ep. 5 makes its debut appearance on BBC One Friday 17th February at 3:45pm! Ochuko Ojiri “finds out about the young postmaster who went on to create one of the country’s best loved cities” 📮

📺 Airing now on BBC One! Discover the building material used to create a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the evidence left behind by early underground quarrymen 🔦

📺 We had an amazing time with the BBC Antiques Road Trip team last year, filming for an episode that aired last Friday! If you missed it, don't worry, you can catch up on iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… 🕵 Here are some exclusive behind-the-scenes snaps from back in November.

🏛 Today marked the time to welcome this beloved artefact back into the museum! Lovingly restored by FBHI Symon Boyd of Timsbury Clocks, we are really looking forward to introducing ‘clocking-in’ into our new admission process! 🎟

Always beautiful to see some snow and Combe Down always gets a good helping ❄ For the average underground quarryman, the view would have been quite different and the temperature a marginally more comfortable 11°C all year round!#snow #snowday #cityofbath #bath #archaeology

We’re delighted to announce a new Volunteering Programme available at Museum of Bath Stone. Full details and roles can be explored on our website: bit.ly/3zMK37B Interested in joining our team? We’d love to hear from you! 📩

We’re exceptionally honoured to have the spotlight shone on our community digitisation project, made possible though Museum Development South West Small Grants scheme 🔦 Our greatest thanks to specialist Volunteering & Workforce Officer, Eleanor Moore for this expertly composed case study.

Introducing a brand-new range… The Oolite Collection, available from the museum’s Giftshop 😍 developed using thin sections of bath stone, photographed under the microscope. Mugs £8, four-piece coaster sets £10. Exclusive to the Museum of Bath Stone

It is our greatest pleasure to announce archaeologist of the Combe Down Stone Mines Stabilisation Project, Neville Redvers-Higgins has been appointed Curator of the Museum of Bath Stone. To read the full article, please see our latest blog post ➡ bit.ly/3pZAJfd

A curse for the quarrymen, these new arrivals of calcite geodes referred to as “cockles” will be featuring in our new displays and joining our geological collection ✨ #Geology

Momentarily, our development programme is on pause while we bring you this detailed update! Our longest newsletter EVER will be reaching inboxes this week! 📷Please do consider signing up to discover what you can look forward to in the new museum: museumofbathstone.org/our-newsletter/

It's back! The eagerly anticipated reprint of the iconic title BURLINGTON - The Central Government Emergency Headquarters at Corsham is now available to buy from our Bath Stone Bookshop! Get in touch to secure your copy 📞📧

We are open this half term for Bath Museums Week! Visit us today & tomorrow between 10am & 4pm for #GEOLOGY fun! And if you’re quick, you can enjoy a delicious bat biscuit, rock cake or brachiopod chocolate with your visit! 🦇🍪🪨🧁🐚🍫

Oolitic sand under the microscope 🔬 These samples, from the Bahamas, show oolitic limestone in the early stages of formation. The Bahamas are a modern day equivalent to Jurassic Combe Down. Visit today to see our geological collections under magnification 🔍

📸 Images taken today of #Bath Stone and Portland Stone thin sections, taken through a microscope. But which one is which? The UK has three heritage stones, the third being Welsh #Slate!

A huge thank you to those who visited us for #BathMuseumsWeek last week and our event: Journey into the Jurassic Seas! We even had the privilege of welcoming the one and only The Mayor of Bath, Dine Romero! Thank you so much for this delightful photo capturing the occasion!

Explore the wonderful world of pillars in our new interpretation! Most of the 3,173 pillars discovered underground in Combe Down could be attributed a type within the classification system developed by archaeologists. Discover these and anomalies - such as this H-shaped pillar!

A rare opportunity is coming to Bath this Thursday 9th November. In a BACAS Archaeology talk hosted at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, join Project Manager Mary Stacey and Oxford Archaeology Consultant Dr Lynn Willies for an illustrated lecture on The Archaeology of the Combe Down Stone Mines. tinyurl.com/3e7tb859

Fabulous afternoon attending the B&NES Museums Group meeting today 🏛️ Thoroughly enjoyable to learn of everybody’s future plans and soak up some of city’s finest architecture en route & during! Our greatest thanks to all involved.