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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust @leedsth.nhs.uk · Sep 2

We’re partnering with Thackray Museum of Medicine to shine a spotlight on organ donation and transplants on Thursday 25 September for #OrganDonationWeek!
Every year, over 300 people receive life-changing transplants at Leeds Hospitals.
Find out more and book here: www.facebook.com/events/66381...

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · May 30

We @thackraymuseum.bsky.social are working with the RHS too and look forward to revealing some exhibition news soon 👀🌷

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · May 30

This time last week I was incredibly privileged to be on a pre-opening tour at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, with an opportunity to find out more about their community commitments and to celebrate work on our nearest neighbour’s RHS & NHS Wellbeing Garden @leedsth.nhs.uk.

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · May 6

🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤

Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱

www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Apr 29

Delighted that @adamrutherford.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social's Prof Gregory Radick will be joining us @thackraymuseum.bsky.social on Thursday evening for our newest Insights Late on the legacy of eugenics. Just a few tickets left now … 🎟️

thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

Thackray Insights Late: Unnatural Selection - Thackray Museum of Medicine

Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the...

thackraymuseum.co.uk

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Apr 25

Today we @thackraymuseum.bsky.social posted a statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling on gender. We stand with our trans family and communities in allyship. 🏳️‍⚧️

thackraymuseum.co.uk/statement-fr...

Statement from the Thackray Museum of Medicine following the UK Supreme Court gender ruling - Thackray Museum of Medicine

The Thackray Museum of Medicine is a safe space where the trans community has always been, and will always be, a welcomed part of our family – through our staff, volunteers, co-producers, the communit...

thackraymuseum.co.uk

Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Apr 3

Good morning #Salford you are look resplendent! Here @thelowry.com for @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities in Arts and Culture day. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues but also learning about, and being inspired by, the power of community.

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Apr 2

Brilliant to welcome @mayorofwy.bsky.social Tracy Brabin back to @thackraymuseum.bsky.social for the latest Mayor’s Question Time #WYMQT – looking forward to hearing more about our community’s concerns and what’s important for them with @westyorkshireca.bsky.social

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National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · Mar 5

National Portfolio museums are becoming more diverse, ACE report finds - Museums Association @museumsassociation.org www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

National Portfolio museums are becoming more diverse, ACE report finds - Museums Association

New figures show rise in culture sector workers with protected characteristics, particularly at leadership level

www.museumsassociation.org

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Mar 5

I’ve been on hold to HMRC for so long that I’ve started to transcribe the truly awful hold music that I will undoubtedly now have in my head for days 😒

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Feb 13

Kicking off another jam-packed @thackraymuseum.bsky.social late with Open Mic spoken word as part of “My Bloody Valentine”

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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · Feb 8

New exhibition opens today.

It's about Blood. 🩸

Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Our partners at @universityofleeds.bsky.social: @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Art by Gemma Wood. Design by Émilie Chen.

An exhibition poster showing an organic, branching, dark crimson sculpture entangled in web of red threads. The title BLOOD is written in big, bold all capitals, with the words "Ties and Tensions" beneath.

A museum display case seen through an illuminated web of red branches. It is framed by a network of red threads. The case contains Victorian transfusion apparatus and modern blood bags.

A museum display case with a flame coloured sculpture of twisted branches reaching from the ground to engulf it. The case contains medicine bottles, documents and badges. An interpretation panel reads: "Infection".

A series of historic blood donation posters on a gallery wall. One shows the silhouette of a soldier contained within a glass blood collection bottle. A real version of the bottle is spotlit in a case beneath the poster.

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Feb 8

This is beyond insane!!! #trump made himself chair of the Kennedy Center! WTF?! On what planet is the supposed free world governed by a total autocrat? This is Stalin-esque! You’d think the arts would be a place of sanctuary but apparently not.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says he will appoint himself chair of Kennedy Center

President plans to fire board members and chair David Rubenstein to bring about ‘golden age in arts and culture’

www.theguardian.com

Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Jan 11

Just over 24 hours left to apply … 👨🏻‍💻

Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Jan 8

📣 MarComms + VE Leadership Job Klaxon 🚨

HEAD OF MARKETING & AUDIENCES @thackraymuseum.bsky.social

Looking for a new challenge in 2025? I need a brilliant person to join our team to lead our #marketing #communications and #visitorexperience teams for 10 months.

The Thackray team of staff stood on the staircase in its Grade II listed entrance with beautiful Burmantofts tiles.

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National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · Jan 9

Culture engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth 8bn via @museumsassociation.org www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Cultural engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth £8bn - Museums Association

Research uses new methodology to show monetary value of cultural investment

www.museumsassociation.org

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Jan 8

Read more and find out how to apply:
thackraymuseum.co.uk/about-us/wor...

Join the Team - Thackray Museum of Medicine

Explore the incredible world of medicine.

thackraymuseum.co.uk

Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Jan 8

This is an exciting opportunity to:
👉🏻 lead & develop a committed, ambitious & creative team
👉🏻 enable us to realise new audience development ambitions
👉🏻 embed + implement positioning, pricing and segmentation strategy
👉🏻 help a brilliant charity reach a greater diversity of people and communities

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Jan 8

📣 MarComms + VE Leadership Job Klaxon 🚨

HEAD OF MARKETING & AUDIENCES @thackraymuseum.bsky.social

Looking for a new challenge in 2025? I need a brilliant person to join our team to lead our #marketing #communications and #visitorexperience teams for 10 months.

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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · Jan 7

Culture is in an emergency right now and today I’ve seen yet another well established arts org fall - Bristol Old Vic’s theatre school has run undergrad courses for 80 years (!!) but no more: oldvic.ac.uk/news/an-impo... @artsemergency.bsky.social 🚨

An important announcement regarding future undergraduate training at the school - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

For almost 80 years, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School – one of the most well-regarded and successful drama schools in the UK – has prepared talented students from all walks of life to join the creative ...

oldvic.ac.uk

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 12

Just maybe, a more fitting legacy for Her Majesty would be using that £46m to sustain an existing network of regional civic museums throughout the land. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

Competition launched to design £46m Queen Elizabeth II memorial - Museums + Heritage

museumsandheritage.com

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Nov 29

With ever grateful thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @heritagefunduk.bsky.social and TMRT whose support helps us share these brilliant projects and enables the museum to bring its real-life stories of medicine, wellbeing and care to an ever greater number of people 🙏🏻

Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Nov 29

Poignant, heartwarming and full of traditional Thackray kindness and care, I hope you can find time to fit us in on a festive visit to Leeds. The exhibition remains open until 5 January 2025.

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Nov 29

PLUS every weekend day until 22 December Wrongsemble perform pop-up performances across our galleries bringing NHS staff yuletide stories further to life.

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Nov 29

We have joined forces with brilliant paper artist and illustrator Andy Singleton to bring our take on the traditional festive story which features incredible staff from
@leedshospitals.bsky.social who work over the festive period, sharing joy with those who cannot spend Christmas at home.

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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · Nov 29

Over the moon that @thackraymuseum.bsky.social made the front page of @yorkshirepost.bsky.social with our festive exhibition, 'The Night Before NHS Christmas', which opens tomorrow (30 Nov).

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