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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jul 10

Postcard from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social generally summing things up today😅

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jul 8

Behind every object in Weston Park Museum is a life lived and a story shared, just like Orville Fuller’s! 🧵

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jul 3

Tour of #Sheffield 's Lake District anyone? Beautiful on a day like today ☀️
From the collections at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jun 30

🎉Hooray for 150 years of Weston Park Museum!🎉

Today, we announced a host of family activities, talks and tours, exhibitions and displays to mark 150 years of life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled museum experiences in Sheffield 👏👏👏

Find out more here: www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/wes...

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yay! #Pulp

Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jan 30

Sometimes I take photos of plastic bags for a living and I love it 🤓
From the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jun 6

In honour of #BBCspringwatch being filmed up the road at Longshaw, here's some natured-themed children's magazines from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

(last one probably frowned on)

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jun 6

In honour of #BBCspringwatch being filmed up the road at Longshaw, here's some natured-themed children's magazines from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

(last one probably frowned on)

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 29

#Sheffield solar eclipse (through cereal box 🤣)

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · Mar 23

The Pillbox at Hecla Works was built during World War Two to protect the munitions work being carried out on this site. It can be found between Five Weirs Walk and the bottom of Attercliffe Cemetery #Sheffield

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 20

Happy Spring Equinox/ astronomical spring!

Here’s a beautiful clockwork model of the Earth, Sun and Moon. It was made around 1888 in Sheffield by Benjamin Gorrill, who worked as a saw-piercer and silversmith.

From the Social History collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hello Venus

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 11

My wife and self tried our best to get out of Kelham Mills and into the street, but had to make our way back into [the] house, and only just managed it. Carried Mrs Andrews back into house. The prayer book was found in the mud after the receding of the water”.

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 11

In 1917 William Andrews donated this prayer book to the city’s museum collections, and remembered:

“My house was on the premises of John Charles & Sons, Kelham Forge and Rolling Mills. The water was between 5 & 6ft in my house.

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 11

Reflecting today on the #Sheffield Flood of 11-12th March 1864, which caused such devastation and loss.

Prayer book salvaged after the flood, on display in Weston Park Museum
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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Mar 6

Putting away some #Sheffield views that were on display in our Rivers exhibition- here's the Plan of Sheffield from an Actual Survey by Ralph Gosling, 1736. Lots of recognisable places, streets, path of the river Sheaf, gardens and orchards...
From the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Feb 27

Celebrating LBGTQ+ History Month for #OnlineArtExchange 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTplusHM25

🖼Edward Carpenter (1844–1929)
👨‍🎨Thomas Binney Gibbs (1870–1947)
📸 Sheffield Museums

🙏Edward Carpenter - Sheffield-based pioneer of LGBTQ rights, women’s rights and environmentalism; writer, campaigner, radical sandal-wearer.

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Feb 20

What a day: our first post on Bluesky and a new exhibition! 🚀

🚨These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture is now open at the Millennium Gallery! 💛

See rarely seen sculptures by John Hoyland alongside a spectacular assembly of contemporary sculpture ✨

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy Valentines Day!
This pendant was worn with love by Ruth Shipman, with photos of her husband Mark, and son Mark junior. Dates to early 1900s.
From the collections at Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jan 30

Sometimes I take photos of plastic bags for a living and I love it 🤓
From the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jan 9

Here is your January to do list from a 1777 almanac... I'll be focusing on no-blood letting and eating often 😅
From the collections at Sheffield Museums

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Jan 5

Suitably #snow ready #Sheffield lady around 100 years ago, with possibly less ready dog...
Photograph from the collections at Sheffield Museums
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Person standing in snow wearing long coat, hat and gloves, with nervous looking dog

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Dec 22

Should speed up the commute no end

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Dec 4

Can confirm that the Victoria Plum perfumed eraser still smells the same after 30 years 😀
From the Social History collections at Sheffield Museums

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Kitty Ross @curatorkitty.bsky.social · Dec 3

In shock that the #museum I have dedicated most of my working life to is threatened with closure. I urge #Leeds people to respond to the upcoming public consultation and fight to preserve such a loved and important site. Local government funding needs fixing urgently.

Yorkshire Evening Post @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk · Dec 3

Closure of Abbey House Museum and 'pay as you feel' charges proposed by Leeds City Council for 2025/2026 budget amid funding black hole

Closure of Leeds museum and 'pay as you feel' charges put forward in council budget

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · Dec 2

Just to avoid disappointment, the painting isn't on display at Weston Park Museum at the moment! It moved from Picturing Sheffield gallery to the Rivers exhibition, which has just been replaced with the Pete McKee exhibition. It'll be back out on display as soon as we have a space for it again 🙂

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