Abbie MacKinnon
abbiemackinnon.bsky.social
Abbie MacKinnon
@abbiemackinnon.bsky.social
🚀 Space Curator, Science Museum
🇺🇸 American ex-pat
🚲 Love a bike ride
👦🏻🧑🏻‍🦰 Mom to 2 boys
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🚀 Don’t miss your last chance to enter our competition to design a mission patch for a real-life space mission.

Join a drop-in session in Technicians: The David Sainsbury Gallery between 11.00 - 13.00 this Sunday 4 May or by entering online.

The competition is open until 6 May: bit.ly/42WkCyx
May 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I linked up with the Elite Dangerous team at Frontier games to do a super fun tour of the Solar System during @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social Lates in March. www.space.com/entertainmen...
We took a guided tour of the solar system in Elite Dangerous, and now you can too (interview)
Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our h...
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April 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Real privilege to enjoy a talk by Prof. Hitoshi Kuninaka, JAXA's Director General of Space and Astronomical Science, today in @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social. Discussing the history and future of Japanese space science and exploration.
February 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Space in China, early SETI, astronomy in turn-of-the century France, and a conversation among museum curators — the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its ninth season. The spring 2025 program starts on 02/18/25. www.space-talks.com

#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory
January 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Knocking about in stores today. Here are some highlights from my trolley... 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Glad to be back in a place like this and wonderful to see so many familiar names again ❤️
November 23, 2024 at 8:32 PM