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Alistair Brown @alistairbrown.bsky.social · Feb 7

Great discussion here about the future of museums with @benansell.bsky.social @tonybutler1.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social Sara Wajid and Sharon Ament.

Culture, community and cash at the heart of the debate. Give it a listen.

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Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds

What are museums for?

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

Rethink... museums
On 23 January - @tonybutler1.bsky.social Sara Wajid and Stephen Bush from the @financialtimes.com debated the future of museums on BBC Radio's Rethink. Available now on BBC Sounds - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #BBCRethink

Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds

What are museums for?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Jan 23

Listen here Rethink with @benansell.bsky.social @bbcradio4.bsky.social

with Sharon Ament @londonmuseum.bsky.social Sara Wajid, @stephenbush.bsky.social

Asking, what are museums for?

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Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds

What are museums for?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Truda Spruyt @trudaspruyt.bsky.social · Jan 23

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Timely discussion on the future of museums with @stephenkb.bsky.social Derby’s @tonybutler1.bsky.social and Birmingham’s Sara Wajid.

Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds

What are museums for?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Baker @museumsthinking.bsky.social · Jan 19

Are you intrigued by the current closures of museums? Please consider following my facebook page Save Our Museums (UK) where I share media stories relating to museum cuts and closure. www.facebook.com/SaveOurMuseu...

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Jan 11

Thank you Manny

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Jan 11

I walked across the fields from our friends’ house at 1am last night. Bright moonlight, clear skies and stars illuminated our church.

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Jan 3

Saluting the sun #Aldeburgh

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Jan 1

Thank you Kim, much appreciated

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 31

I’m hugely thrilled but you’re only as good as the people you work with and I have worked with amazing people over the years. Thank you to them.

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Tony Butler, Executive Director of Derby Museums Trust, awarded OBE in New Years Honours 2025 - Derby Museums

We are delighted to announce that our Executive Director Tony Butler has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in HM the King’s New Year Honours list 2025 for services to ...

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 19

You could select the Championship or League 1 😉

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 19

“The revolution, like Saturn, devours its own children”

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 18

The new configuration of the rooms at Pickford’s House Derby Museums is first class. Gone are the velvet ropes, barriers and out of date interpretation. Visitors can walk all the way around the rooms and find out new stories of people who made the house their home.

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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

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 11

Loving the school that’s come all the way from Stoke on Trent to Derby Museum for one of our fabulous sessions on the ‘Stone Age’.

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 8

Thought I recognised the bar top! Great choice

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Dec 8

Aldeburgh? White Hart

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 28

The Museum of Making was visited by residents from Kiwi care home today. I had the pleasure of meeting Dennis who worked at the former Derby Industrial Museum for 20 years. I hope they visit again soon.

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 25

I know it should be Sir Tim Smit. Darned autocorrect!

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 24

Enjoying Flaneuring round the free stuff of London.

Barbican
Guildhall
British Museum
Royal Opera House

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 20

Lovely morning with Sir Tim Smith founder @edenproject.bsky.social

Under gaze of Erasmus Darwin we talked of a new Age of Enlightenment inspired by the natural philosophers of the 18th century. The observation and understanding of nature helped them make sense of their place in the world.

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 19

I owe @HeritageFundUK much in my working life #ThanksToYou

My 1st job - Wakefield supported an application in 1997.
Abbot’s Hall 2.4m project 2008-12 @FoodMuseumUK.
The 17m awarded to @derbymuseums since 2002 includes @MuseumofMaking.

Now Commitee member @HeritageFundM_E

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 19

Belper 07.15

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 18

The new Labour govt addressing the scandalous state of children’s social care should be cheered. #r4today

Private companies profiteering from the most vulnerable children should shame us all

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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · Nov 17

go.bsky.app/SezANp6

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