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#ReliefWednesday at the #BritishMuseum offers us a drum from the base of a column from the temple of #Diana of #Ephesus in modern #Turkey. Here, in delicate #relief, we find winged #Thanatos, Death himself, beside a female figure, with #Hermes #Psychopompos at far right. #AncientBluesky 🏺
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I just love this film #BednobsandBroomsticks and the way it creatively adapts the Bayeux Tapestry

MAGIC WITH A MISSION.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...

#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS opening credits (#16)
YouTube video by Sam Henderson
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February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday offers us this beautiful obelisk in the #BritishMuseum with an #inscription in #Phoenician from the C4 BCE. Our own script derives from these letters, passing first through archaic Greek and Latin. When this was carved, those alphabets had already split off. #AncientBluesky 🏺
February 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Ea Nasir has been loaned away by the British Museum!
Its the number one object i go there to see!
#eanasir #britishmuseum #history #customerservice #mesopotamia
February 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
George IV’s beautiful Coronation surcoat from 1821 which is on display at the British Museum at the moment. The robe serves as an interesting comparison to the stunning cloaks worn by the Hawaiian Royalty which were made from tiny feathers 🌺

#georgeiv #surcoat #hawaii #exhibition #britishmuseum
February 10, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Well, I decided to write about Generative AI, Archaeologists and the British Museum #generativeAI #AI #archaeology #britishmuseum
aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/gen-ai-arc...
GEN AI, Archaeologists and the British Museum
What's this? Is there much more that's behind those AI generated photos posted by the British Museum late last month?
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February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Amazing design and objects for the #Samurai exhibition at the #BritishMuseum
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The #MetMuseum is one of my all time favorites. I actually prefer it to the #BritishMuseum, especially when comparing their #Egyptian sections. While the British Museum has more artifacts, that are more famous, the presentation is like a cluttered store room. The Met’s is beautiful and immersive.
February 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
William Lloyd smashed the priceless #PortlandVase to smithereens #OnThisDay in 1845 in one of the worst cases of vandalism to befall any work of #art; fortunately, the #BritishMuseum staff were able to put the Roman cameo glass vase back together again...
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February 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This is a drawing of a meditating soldier. I think he looks grumpy rather than meditating #samurai #britishmuseum #grumpysoldier
February 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Beautiful amazing Samurai exhibition at the British Museum ❤️ #samurai #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Born #OTD in 1812, #CharlesDickens visited the reading room of the #britishmuseum on 11th October 1839. Here is the page from the register showing his attendance. #archives
February 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The BritishMuseum was recently caught using #AI imagery in a promo, leaving followers enraged and dissapointed at the stunt.” This generative AI technology is already pervasive within our textual & audio cultures but simultaneously resented, mocked rejected? flip.it/X3b0Xi
I can’t ignore the irony of the British Museum’s AI scandal
How did this get approved?
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February 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Objections raised to British Museum’s visitor pavilion and landscaping plans.

Conservation groups are concerned the development will cause 'unacceptable level of harm'.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum #museums
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
A matriarch gently sways in a rocking chair/creaking like an oarlock/With each stroke the boat floats closer, closer.../I ask for a story, but she's weary/and retires like the night mist rising off the river
▶️ #NordicNoir 🖼️ works on paper 🎟️ #BritishMuseum ℹ️ scanmagazine.co.uk/nordic-noir-...
February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
British Museum Deletes AI-Generated Pictures After Backlash.
The British Museum in London has long been dogged by accusations that it contains troves of stolen art. So there's a certain irony when it posted a series of AI-generated images
petapixel.com/2026/02/04/b... #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum
February 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Let’s focus on the kottabos kylix. The aim of the game is to fling wine lees from your cup (a kylix is seen in her hand) to sink an oxybaphon (a floating saucer). Here instead a duck looks up at her, as if to say ‘What the heck?’. Wonderful cartoon-like lines. 🏺 2/

Abt. 430 BCE. #BritishMuseum
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
⚔️ The British Museum's FIRST Samurai exhibition opens TODAY! 280 artifacts spanning 1,000 years of warrior myth & reality. London, Feb 3 - May 4.
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#Samurai #Japan #BritishMuseum #London #History
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The British Museum's first-ever
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February 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday returns to the #BritishMuseum for an excellent example of #rustic capitals in the unusual medium of #bronze, in this #inscription from c. 200 CE commemorating one S. Pompeius Maximus, priest of the cult of Sol Invictus and #Mithras. #AncientBluesky 🏺
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM