Esme Ward
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Director @McrMuseum (she/her) Posts about museums and learning, ethics, care, hope. Own views.
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Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt
Stanta Claus is coming to town!
Our beloved T. rex, Stan, will put his hat on and deliver festive gifts to people across Manchester next month.
Stanās Secret Santa is our Christmas gift appeal, supporting charities Barnabus Manchester and Mustard Tree.
museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/stans-seā¦
Fantastic news and recognition for a wonderful organisation and people Sukhbir Singh Proud to share the Feed My City story in the South Asia Gallery Manchester Museum
Just discovered Ed Ruschaās wonderful print series āInsectsā (1972) British Museum Life-sized red ants, flies and cockroaches arenāt a crowd pleaser it would seem (empty gallery)
What if āimaginationā was one of our education systemās key outcomes for young people? As we finalise our GE2024 Manifesto Asks, we are inviting colleagues to share their views on some of our Asks for the future, and their perspectives on past progress
culturallearningalliance.org.uk/what-if-imaginā¦
Ghost Mountain by Mumblin' Deaf Ro will be published by Bluemoose Books in May and is available to pre-order now.
I've pre-ordered a copy from Gutter Bookshop
gutterbookshop.com/product/ghost-ā¦
Start your festive season with a Big Bang and joinĀ Jodrell Bank toĀ celebrate Winter Solstice Season to experience:
šĀ Astronomical lectures
š Pink Floyd's immersive 'Dark Side of the Moon' 50th Anniversary Dome Show
āØ Projections illuminating the First Light Pavilion
š Mulledā¦
Museum folk, check out this thread from Dhikshana Turakhia Pering, full of positivity and possibilityā¦
This is such a great initiative from Museum Data Service - a free new service that aims to connect and share all the object records across all UK #museums , large and small, supporting safety, discoverability, visibility
Delighted that Arts and Humanities Research Council is supporting with Bloomberg Philanthropies
A new era for International Slavery Museum will begin in 2024, when we'll welcome Michelle Charters as our new Head of International Slavery Museum. Michelle is a shining light in the city and is currently an National Museums Liverpool trustee. We're excited to continue to work together. āØ1/3
Today marks exactly 12 years since I was appointed to my dream job Manchester Museum! Excited to share that next month I'll start a 2 yr part-time research secondment University of Manchester - Faculty of Humanities to better understand responses to our #GoldenMummies show & ancient Egyptian faces.
*cue me eyeballing things*