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After a few years as a Curator Without a Museum (a bit like a Minister Without Portfolio) I'm delighted to be back a Curator Within a Museum.
Spotted a calico cat which reminds us of our mouser. @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social #Caturday
May 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A new potential talk subject was suggested to me at an art talk so the research begins... (love this bit)
May 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Haven’t been able to visit any sites recently but spotted this beautiful single rampart hillfort built by children on the beach at St-Jacut-de-la-Mer last month. Are we naturally inclined to build these structures ? Love the shell cobbled floor !! #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge
May 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Spent yesterday in a good light, reading Donna Ashworth's To The Women and feeling the sun on my skin.
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No idea what to post for #InternationalMuseumDay on "The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities." Thought of the encouraging banners in Columbia District, San Diego last year. "The future feels like a canvas to create" & "The future feels like a work of art." That's how to face the future
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Attended the most intense and beautiful concert on Saturday. The Sacconi Quartet played at St Mary Le More as part of the Wallingford Chamber Music's 40th anniversary season. And what a stunning evening it was for it.
#Panufnik #Shostakovich #Beethoven
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Resharing that time I spotted the Death Star in the British Museum's Troy exhibition.... #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th #Troy #DeathStar #KindOfATrojanHorse #NotReally #StarWarsInClassics
May 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A long time ago in a manuscript far, far away....

Happy #StarWarsDay! – #MayTheFourthBeWithYou, always.
May 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Saw this poem on the tube last week. Made me think of my energetic bunch & the sheer joy of cycling when you're wee. This snap brought back the words. Such an inspiring final line.
@poetrysociety.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @britishcouncil.bsky.social @transportforlondon.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My heritage highlights from a Parisian weekend (lucky me!)
1) Hearing the bells of Notre Dame peeling out
2) Twinkly lights on Notre Dame
3) & 4) 1912 La Coupole in Les Galeries Lafayette (who says shopping can't be a cultural experience?!)
April 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Lovely evening at Dorchester Historical Society. It was so brilliant to be in the Guest House, right beside Dorchester Abbey. There were rays of sunshine cutting across the sky as I drove in. Beautiful.
#DorchesterAbbey #Dorchester #Oxfordshire
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
One more Easter-themed post... we were face to face with Rabbit (1986) by Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean in 2019. Surely one of the most famous rabbits in contemporary art?!
@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
#Easter #EasterBunny #EasterSunday #Rabbit #JeffKoons #Ashmolean #Art
April 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
An Easter-y post for today. The Romanian Easter eggs we'd on loan at Bromley Museum. @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social collected them in 1950s.
Horniman Museum ran the amazing Object In Focus loan project, supplying a display case, cool artefact, help wth interpretation & marketing, all with great staff.
April 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Easter bunny resting 🐰🐰

A #Roman samian ware bowl depicting a rabbit eating dandelion.

Found in Eschenz/Switzerland.

Photo: AATG, Daniel Steiner
April 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Happy 144th birthday to the Natural History Museum. One of my favourite facts about its collection is that it includes Sir John Lubbock (inventor of the Bank Holiday!)'s pet wasp! Lubbock can be seen speaking in this 1905 photo of the unveiling of their infamous diplodocus.
@nhm-london.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
How brilliant. As part of the Easter Activity Adventure trail, helping to save and recreate Basildon Park in the style of the Iliffes, you got to curate your own artwork display. Loved it. @nationaltrust.org.uk
#BasildonPark #NationalTrust #EasterTrail #ArtLover #ArtOutdoors #Spring #April
April 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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how to draw a medieval cat in two easy steps
April 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Absolutely delighted I got tickets to see Mary Beard in Oxford later this year. Cannot wait.
April 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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For #MosaicMonday, one of the most personable crabs imaginable. He was in a delightful marine environment, probably around a lost figure of Neptune, under what is now Gloucester House in Dyer Street, Cirencester.
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
April 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Come on Britain.

Be more like Germany.
April 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"What day was it a billion minutes ago?" Gotta love train conversations. (A day in AD100 for anyone wondering the answer)
April 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
April 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Look who turned up for my Two William Morrises talk tonight!!
April 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This cartoon tickles me so much! #EnglishLitGeekJokes
April 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
For April Fool's Day my absolute favourite fake in museums is the Peckham Rock Banksy cheekily installed in the galleries at the British Museum, even with it's own label & accession no. It's brilliant that it now legitimately gets includes in exhibitions! This was the piece in Ian Hislop's I Object.
April 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM