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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 1d

News | Oxford’s History of Science Museum announces revamp – museum receives planning and Listed building consent for project

Oxford’s History of Science Museum announces revamp - Museums Association

Museum receives planning and Listed building consent for project

www.museumsassociation.org

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of year again when I have to make the final choices for this years #museum30 prompts - I'm hoping to have the list out early this year ready for all the museum content to start in November!

Are there any prompts you would like to see this year?

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 17d

Event 31: Fiona McLees & Lucy Wood! We will be in conversation for Gwen John: A curator’s tour of her Life and Work, on Saturday 29th November at 5.30pm

Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 17d

Let’s go!!!

Your Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2025 programme is here. Members enjoy priority booking until Friday.

Join us! www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Jun 30

Life has been busy for quite a while now but I’ve still found time to be in the garden and the pottery studio. I’m loving that working from home and no longer having a tiring drive every day means more time to actually do my hobbies even when the diary is full!

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · Jun 18

Think you can crack medieval codes? 🔎

In the Middle Ages, manuscript scribes employed codes to express complex thoughts, indicate hierarchies, represent abstract concepts like music and time, and make the document more playful and engaging for the reader: gty.art/44k25Oy

Illustrated medieval manuscript depicting speckled wood, talewort, garden pea, and a lantern plant below a half page of intricate text.

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 10

‪Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social‬ were the first collection to upload their entire works on paper collection to @artukdotorg.bsky.social through the Museum Data Service 😃. The first of series of Curations celebrating their amazing collection artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century Spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Prints | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Apr 2

Can't wait to see everyone's posts!

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ARA Scotland @arascot.bsky.social · Mar 10

We are excited to announce that #Archive30 will back in April. Each day has a themed # to help you celebrate and show off your archives. Individuals can take part too. Just use the daily # and #archive30 and you can always tag us in to posts too 😊. #archives

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Apr 2

Today's spreadsheet-sorting entertainment is courtesy of @themerl.bsky.social's new 'Absolute Units' podcasts.

I'm really enjoying diving back into the collection where my museum career began!

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Mar 26

Come for the big animals. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

The first full episode of Absolute Units, the official MERL podcast, is here!!!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Three flying absolute units (Exmoor Horn rams) glide over the English countryside. The artwork for Absolute Units, The MERL podcast.

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Mar 6

I had a very fun day at work today visiting Stoke-on-Trent to meet some more of my new @artukdotorg.bsky.social colleagues in person!

We spent the day looking around the Potteries Museum and had a brilliant behind-the-scenes look at the Spode Museum (so good that I only took one photo!)

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NorCal Lynne 🍂 @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · Feb 11

African Marigold (Tagetes erecta). Mary Delany, 1778. Collage and watercolor. © The Trustees of the British Museum. 🌿 #Gardening #SciArt #Art 🌱

Collage of colored papers and watercolor, on black ink background. Flowers are a dark orange and rust red marigolds with green pinnate leaves.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Jan 27

Whenever I have a hard time online (usually twitter) bc people can’t resist venting, I get a strong urge to counter their anger & negativity by rebelling with something positive/uplifting. Some forget-me-nots from last year👇🏼.If you’d like to make a thread of good things here then do post a reply 🌿

Forget me nots from my garden in a very tiny stoneware James Keiller marmalade jar

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Jan 23

Tips if your brain's overwhelmed:

🚶‍♂️Smallest step-completing even part of a task will release dopamine in your brain, helping you to do more
🌿Talk to yourself as you would a loved one, NOT a git who deserves a cruel mental beating👀
🛌Naps reset synapses

Spring colours (my brain needs them too rn):

A posy of spring flowers in a small spice jar, including grape hyacinth, viola, heather, Veronica, winter-flowering honeysuckle, primulas, Anemone blanda, saxifrage and Scilla.

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m very much enjoying that my new working from home life is allowing me to notice all the small changes in nature around me.

A misty sunset view from a window, to the right side the back of a statue can be seen.

A person wearing red trousers and wellington boots steps into a deep river of mud bordered by clovers

A frosty sunrise over a flat river landscape. To the left of the photo are tall trees.

A wooded river bend in warm winter sunshine. The trees are still bare of leaves but some greenery is flourishing on the ground.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Jan 2

Just made a new Spotify playlist, should be informative...

open.spotify.com/playlist/3AH...

A Spotify playlist featuring songs called "The", "Mary Rose", "Sailed", "For", "34 Years", "launched", "1511", "sank", "1545", "Not Her" and "Maiden Voyage

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 26

It’s never too late for the annual cat in the Christmas tree photo - she didn’t manage to knock of any branches this year but there was definitely some precarious tree wobbling going on…

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Dec 10

A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace.

We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet.

(Better with sound).

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Dec 9

I've had one of those days Rob Delaney describes when you have to cosplay as a person who's mentally well. It needed big dollops of self compassion tbh.
I just came across this in my camera roll tho & it gave me a precious burst of dopamine. Pink's also been shown to induce relaxation in humans:

A selection of pink garden & one or two wildflowers (growing in my garden) on a pale linen background with hand-written identification labels.

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 9

Would love to find out more about the workshop!

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 2

My love for sculptural ceramics definitely shows with the three objects I picked for this story introducing the new @artukdotorg.bsky.social ceramics project I am part of:

artuk.org/discover/sto...

Introducing Art UK's new ceramics project | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK. Featuring over 300,000 artworks by over 50,000 artists.

artuk.org

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 1

That’s such a brilliant idea! I feel it would help with the overwhelm I feel in art galleries sometimes when there is just so much to look at.

Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 1

I especially enjoy these when it’s a museum you know well. Walking around with someone new, who knows the collections gives you a new perspective.

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 1

Thank you for taking part - I’m so glad it’s allowed you to connect!

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Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social · Dec 1

Thank you Morgan! It’s everyone who takes part who makes it all worth the effort!

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Nov 30

Reading about the past or watching documentaries are a great way to discover the past, but there's noting that compares to seeing the actual bowl a cook wrote his name on nineteen years before Shakespeare was born...

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