Tony Butler
@tonybutler1.bsky.social
Director, Derby Museums
Banner “Lo Winter is Past” 1963. Marion Adnams (1898-1995). Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Banner “Lo Winter is Past” 1963. Marion Adnams (1898-1995). Derby Museum and Art Gallery
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Culture, community and cash at the heart of the debate. Give it a listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds
What are museums for?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Culture, community and cash at the heart of the debate. Give it a listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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
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
February 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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
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
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?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
with Sharon Ament @londonmuseum.bsky.social Sara Wajid, @stephenbush.bsky.social
Asking, what are museums for?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds
What are museums for?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
with Sharon Ament @londonmuseum.bsky.social Sara Wajid, @stephenbush.bsky.social
Asking, what are museums for?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Timely discussion on the future of museums with @stephenkb.bsky.social Derby’s @tonybutler1.bsky.social and Birmingham’s Sara Wajid.
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
January 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Timely discussion on the future of museums with @stephenkb.bsky.social Derby’s @tonybutler1.bsky.social and Birmingham’s Sara Wajid.
Timely discussion on the future of museums with @stephenkb.bsky.social Derby’s @tonybutler1.bsky.social and Birmingham’s Sara Wajid.
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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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January 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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...
I walked across the fields from our friends’ house at 1am last night. Bright moonlight, clear skies and stars illuminated our church.
January 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I walked across the fields from our friends’ house at 1am last night. Bright moonlight, clear skies and stars illuminated our church.
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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December 31, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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.
derbymuseums.org/news/tony-bu...
derbymuseums.org/news/tony-bu...
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.
December 18, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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.
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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December 12, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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...
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’.
December 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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’.
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.
November 28, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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.
Enjoying Flaneuring round the free stuff of London.
Barbican
Guildhall
British Museum
Royal Opera House
Barbican
Guildhall
British Museum
Royal Opera House
November 24, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Enjoying Flaneuring round the free stuff of London.
Barbican
Guildhall
British Museum
Royal Opera House
Barbican
Guildhall
British Museum
Royal Opera House
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.
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.
November 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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.
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.
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
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
November 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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
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
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
Private companies profiteering from the most vulnerable children should shame us all
November 18, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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
Private companies profiteering from the most vulnerable children should shame us all
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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I have a lot of time for Roy Jenkins. Written 65 years ago in The Case for Labour.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 PM
I have a lot of time for Roy Jenkins. Written 65 years ago in The Case for Labour.
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Great to see Derby North MP Catherine Atkinson @ Museum of Making today with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site team. Being Southern gateway to this UNESCO inscribed site is important to us Derby Museums, placing us firmly with the historic landscape of the birth of the factory system.
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Great to see Derby North MP Catherine Atkinson @ Museum of Making today with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site team. Being Southern gateway to this UNESCO inscribed site is important to us Derby Museums, placing us firmly with the historic landscape of the birth of the factory system.
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I’ve been enjoying reading the responses from the brilliant young people who joined @derbymuseums National Saturday Club this year.
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
November 16, 2024 at 6:45 AM
I’ve been enjoying reading the responses from the brilliant young people who joined @derbymuseums National Saturday Club this year.
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
I have a lot of time for Roy Jenkins. Written 65 years ago in The Case for Labour.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 PM
I have a lot of time for Roy Jenkins. Written 65 years ago in The Case for Labour.
I’ve been enjoying reading the responses from the brilliant young people who joined @derbymuseums National Saturday Club this year.
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
November 16, 2024 at 6:45 AM
I’ve been enjoying reading the responses from the brilliant young people who joined @derbymuseums National Saturday Club this year.
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
They worked in textiles (with industry friends John Smedley) Clay and ink.
Inspired them to further their studies - perhaps become a tattoo artist!
Great to see Derby North MP Catherine Atkinson @ Museum of Making today with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site team. Being Southern gateway to this UNESCO inscribed site is important to us Derby Museums, placing us firmly with the historic landscape of the birth of the factory system.
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Great to see Derby North MP Catherine Atkinson @ Museum of Making today with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site team. Being Southern gateway to this UNESCO inscribed site is important to us Derby Museums, placing us firmly with the historic landscape of the birth of the factory system.
That’s a great idea. Last 4 museum visits
National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo
Jektefartsmuseet, Bodø
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Taylor’s Bellfoundary, Loughborough
National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo
Jektefartsmuseet, Bodø
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Taylor’s Bellfoundary, Loughborough
November 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM
That’s a great idea. Last 4 museum visits
National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo
Jektefartsmuseet, Bodø
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Taylor’s Bellfoundary, Loughborough
National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo
Jektefartsmuseet, Bodø
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Taylor’s Bellfoundary, Loughborough