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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 21d

We’re sharing one of visitor favourites for #OnlineArtExchange this week, the impressive Basilica of San Marco!

🖼️Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice
👨‍🎨John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 28d

There’s a Victorian theme for #OnlineArtExchange today. We’re sharing a slightly different view of a Victorian school than expected; the children playing while their teacher is away!

🖼️When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play
👨‍🎨Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821–1901)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Sep 4

The theme for #OnlineArtExchange is ceramics this week, so we’re sharing a cuppa with these dainty tea cups ☕ @artukdotorg.bsky.social

🖼️Still Life with Tea Cups
👨‍🎨Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1629/1630–1700)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Aug 28

The theme for this week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is Time, so we’ve chosen this study depicting the ripening of a cherry

🖼️Three States of Fruit (from 'Bud to Fruit: The Life History of a Cherry')
👨‍🎨William H. Gill (1839–1923)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jul 24

We’re beaming onto your television screens for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange today, sharing this charming work by Conrad Atkinson.

🖼️Goldfish
👨‍🎨Conrad Atkinson (1940–2022)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jul 8

Weston Park is a museum with Sheffield at its heart, one where the city’s stories are its greatest treasure. And that’s only possible thanks to the people of Sheffield, who so generously share their memories and stories with us. 🧵✨

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jul 8

Orville’s jacket and family photos are currently on display in Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps, and his family story was so kindly shared with us by his daughter, Carole Ann.

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jul 8

Orville was a trained accountant, but wasn’t able to get an accountancy job when he came to Sheffield in 1962. Instead, he did a variety of jobs - bus driver, foreman - all the while, making and adjusting clothes to earn extra money to save and help his family to buy their own home 🏡

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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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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is smells in art for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 at Watts Gallery 👃🌸

"The Sense of Smell" by
David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to)

From @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

#Art #BlueSkyArt #Flowers
@artukdotorg.bsky.social

A colourful painting featuring a man playfully holding a flower in his mouth

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jul 3

It’s all about scent and smells for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today!

So taking inspiration from this gentleman and stopping to smell the roses:
🖼️The Sense of Smell
👨‍🎨David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to)
📸Sheffield Museums

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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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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jun 19

We’re sharing one of Claudette Johnson’s works for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange this week, to coincide with the new Jenny Savile exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, exploring the female form 🎉

🖼️Untitled
👨‍🎨Claudette Johnson (b.1959)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jun 12

We’re taking a dip in the Cornish ocean to celebrate the new Sea State exhibition at Wolterton Park @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange ⛵

🖼️Mevagissey, Cornwall
👨‍🎨Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
📸Sheffield Museums

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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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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jun 5

It’s Landscape week for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange so we’re sharing this beautiful, sunny painting of the River Don 🏞️

🖼️River Don at Wardsend, Sheffield
👨‍🎨William James Stevenson (1835–1905)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Festival of Debate 2025 @festofdebate.bsky.social · Apr 30

"Sheffield's collections came from around the world, some dating back 150 years ago this year. There is an active conversation about should they, shouldn’t they, return objects"

We're at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social asking: should museums return objects? 🖼️

#FofD #Sheffield

A photo of dozens of people in the atrium of a brightly decorated museum, discussing in small groups around round tables

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Bells and Bikes @bellsandbikes.bsky.social · May 20

Kelham in colour.
Kelham Island @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #flowersandtowers in the week of #RHSChelsea @visitsheffield.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Jun 3

Yes! The might RDE is back in steam, see it in action Thu-Sun 😊

P.S. Please forgive the late reply 💐

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · May 29

It’s all about birds for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today, to celebrate the new exhibition at Panlee House Gallery 🐦 we’re keeping it coastal with this study of a gull

🖼️White-Winged Silvery Gull
👨‍🎨John James Audubon (1785–1851)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · May 15

The theme for the #OnlineArtExchange this week is Fabulous fashion 💃 What better way to celebrate than getting a new dress fitted!

🖼️The New Frock
👨‍🎨Frederick William Elwell (1870–1958)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Apr 24

We’re travelling to Cumbria for #OnlineArtExchange this week, linking with Winifred Nicholson’s Cumbrian Rag Rugs exhibition at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social

🖼A Mill Stream in Eskdale, Cumbria
👨‍🎨Thomas Creswick (1811–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · Apr 17

We’re celebrating Easter for #OnlineArtExchange this week! 🐰🐣 🎉 @artukdotorg.bsky.social

We’re ignoring the chocolate 😉 and sharing this beautiful painting of an egg seller 🥚🍳

🖼The Egg Seller
👩‍🎨Margaret Deborah Cookesley (1837–1927)
📸Sheffield Museums

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