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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 6d

It's celebrations and unveilings for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for The Harris Reopening - congratulations!🥳🥳

We have chosen 'Celebrations in Barbastro' by Campbell Sandilands from the collection of University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 6d

We're very excited to be welcoming Kaffe Fassett back to the museum in January for a talk entitled An Eye for Colour.

Tickets are now live - find out more and book 👇
tullie.org.uk/events/kaffe...

Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably standing in front of a floral and leaf patterned background.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 14d

This exhibition has been created for the Museums and Galleries Network for Exhibition Touring (MAGNET), with @artfund.bsky.social support and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.

Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 14d

Installation shots, as always, by the excellent Stuart Walker.

Colour runs from 27 September to 25 January. Entry is included with annual pass or adult day ticket, under-18s go free.
tullie.org.uk/events/colou...

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 14d

Colour: A season of shades, tints and tones opens THIS Saturday.

Installation is well underway and it's looking even more vibrant than we hoped. 🌈

Come on down on Saturday and see the sea mouse, Lichtenstein, disco ball, Kandinsky, dragon, Marilyn Monroe, Hokusai and many more bursts of colour.

Tullie Team member carrying a Chinese dragon head during exhibition installation.

Tullie staff install a brightly coloured screen print of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 20d

Café Tullie's new menu launches this Saturday 20 September. 👀

So we can get our systems ready and get all the new menus out, Café Tullie will close slightly early on Friday 19 September at 2pm. Back open as normal from 9.30am Saturday.

We can't wait to see what you think!

Friends sitting at a table in Café Tullie, perusing a menu.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can learn even more in our chat with Luis V. Rey, which you can access here: tullie.org.uk/dinosaur-rev...

Open every day until 14 September, 10am-4pm, 11am-4pm on Sundays.

Dinosaur rEvolution - interview with Luis V. Rey - Tullie - Museum & Art Gallery

Interview with renowned palaeo-artist Luis V. Rey to accompany Dinosaur rEvolution exhibition at Tullie 28 June -14 September 2025

tullie.org.uk

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Enjoy the animatronics of course, but also take the time to properly appreciate Luis V. Rey's detailed & vibrant illustrations. Read the panels & learn about the dinosaur renaissance & the realisation that dinosaurs were not only related to birds, but that birds are the last remaining dinosaurs. 🐧🦕🤯

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cumbrian schools may have gone back now, but our exhibition gallery will be filled with dinosaurs until Sunday 14 September.

Adult dinosaur enthusiasts, now is your time.

Flash photography of a T Rex animatronic in the Dinosaur rEvolution exhibition at Tullie.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · Aug 27

A window at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
#WindowsOnWednesday 📷 #photography

Two people are walking in a museum in front of a large square window made up of three vertical rectangular panes. Outside, through the window are several buildings of different sizes and orientations, in red brick, white render and cream render, under a pale blue sky. Two round seats are positioned in front of the window.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 26

5. should read Small White Dog BY John Charlton - the dog probably wasn't called John Charlton, though we don't have anything to prove otherwise.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 26

5. Small White Dog John Charlton (1849-1917)

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 26

4. Lowestoft porcelain pug dogs around 1775

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 26

3. Waiting for the Missus, 1952 Oil on canvas by Norman Alford (1914-1954

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 26

2. Dog pyjama case from around 1920

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 26

26 August is #InternationalDogDay, which feels like a good day to come back to after the long weekend.

Please enjoy these good boys and/or girls from across the collection.

1. Bronze Roman dog figurine 100-200 AD

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 20

An ancient handmade bowl with human feet to bring a smile to your face!

The bowl tips slightly forwards as if offering its contents!

Predynastic Egypt, Naqada period c. 3700-3450 BC.

At the Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a hemispherical red pottery bowl with supports in the shape of a pair of human feet on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Handmade from red Nile clay, it is slipped and polished to give a light surface sheen. The front of the bowl tips slightly forward as if offering its contents. Dimensions: diameter 13.2 cm x width 13.7 cm x depth 9.8 cm.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 14

Visitor travels from Denmark to see how her Roman basket measures up

A few weeks ago we had a rather special visit from Lisbeth and Ole, who had travelled with their grandchildren from Denmark for an historic trip taking in Hadrian's Wall, Edinburgh and Lindisfarne.

tullie.org.uk/2025/08/visi...

Visitor travels from Denmark to see how her Roman basket measures up - Tullie - Museum & Art Gallery

tullie.org.uk

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's Welsh art for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange to celebrate Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection'.

We have chosen 'Wales (Great Western Railway/ London, Midland and Scottish Railway poster artwork)' by Leonard Richmond from the collection of National Railway Museum.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Since July 2024, we have been running online and in person events to engage communities with Tagger.

🎉 This week we hit 1,000 acts of participation!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us and to
The National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players for making it possible 🙌

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 13

We had a good long chat with Luis V. Rey palaeo-artist extraordinaire & curator of current exhibition Dinosaur rEvolution.

You can watch or listen to the whole thing below 👇
tullie.org.uk/dinosaur-rev...

#palaeoart #paleoart #dinosaurart #luisvrey #deinonychus

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Aug 12

Enjoyed the new natural history display at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social today, including insects and reproductions of herbarium sheets (plus a real one in a special box to protect it from the light). 💚

Montage showing the ‘Carlisle is Wild’ display cases, including reproductions of herbarium sheets and insects.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Aug 12

News | Heritage at Risk Fund offers £15m to 37 local heritage sites in England – @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social and National Waterways Museum among the projects set to receive funding

Heritage at Risk Fund offers £15m to 37 local heritage sites in England - Museums Association

Tullie House and National Waterways Museum among the projects set to receive funding

www.museumsassociation.org

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is religious art for The Barber Institute's online exhibition Fragments of Devotion 🌟

We have chosen 'York Minster' by K. D. Richards from the collection of York University.

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is abstract and non-figurative art 🎨

We have chosen 'Accented Landscape, Series 2' by Lancelot Ribeiro from the collection of Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.

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