Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️
@minbutler.bsky.social
Assistant Curator @ Historic Royal Palaces 👑
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
Balloons, the Blitz and the Tower of London - a short piece I wrote for the HRP blog on Remembrance Day 🌺
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Balloons, the Blitz and the Tower of London - a short piece I wrote for the HRP blog on Remembrance Day 🌺
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
“May you love this as much as we have. And may monsters inhabit your dreams and give you as much solace as they have given me. We are all creatures lost and found. For the journey is eternal, but so is the faith.”
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“May you love this as much as we have. And may monsters inhabit your dreams and give you as much solace as they have given me. We are all creatures lost and found. For the journey is eternal, but so is the faith.”
dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social
vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏁✈️
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏁✈️
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court!
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
September 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court!
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻❄️🌌
September 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻❄️🌌
Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚
The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”
August 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
August 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
nice little eBay find 🇦🇶
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
nice little eBay find 🇦🇶
the sky was a paid actor
July 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
the sky was a paid actor
looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy
July 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy
Nothing to apologise for! We had a great time - really enjoyed all the wonderful excerpts from William, Eleanor and Franklin’s letters (and this slide was a particular highlight 😁)
July 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Nothing to apologise for! We had a great time - really enjoyed all the wonderful excerpts from William, Eleanor and Franklin’s letters (and this slide was a particular highlight 😁)
Had a fab time at the NMM listening to @sampopewriter.bsky.social and her wonderful talk on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden - thanks so much for a fascinating evening (and happy 230th birthday to EAP herself!)
July 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Had a fab time at the NMM listening to @sampopewriter.bsky.social and her wonderful talk on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden - thanks so much for a fascinating evening (and happy 230th birthday to EAP herself!)
city curators lured to countryside (thanks for having us #draytonhouse!)
June 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
city curators lured to countryside (thanks for having us #draytonhouse!)
unlikely highlight from awful doctor who finale - the other office got trampled by bone beasts :)
#doctorwho #toweroflondon
#doctorwho #toweroflondon
June 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
unlikely highlight from awful doctor who finale - the other office got trampled by bone beasts :)
#doctorwho #toweroflondon
#doctorwho #toweroflondon
May 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
It was wonderful to plant 3 of the nearly 30,000 ceramic poppies at the Tower today 🌺
The installation commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and will be on display 6 May- 11 Nov - come and see it if you can!
(Also featuring baby’s first interp panels 😁) #towerpoppies
The installation commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and will be on display 6 May- 11 Nov - come and see it if you can!
(Also featuring baby’s first interp panels 😁) #towerpoppies
April 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It was wonderful to plant 3 of the nearly 30,000 ceramic poppies at the Tower today 🌺
The installation commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and will be on display 6 May- 11 Nov - come and see it if you can!
(Also featuring baby’s first interp panels 😁) #towerpoppies
The installation commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and will be on display 6 May- 11 Nov - come and see it if you can!
(Also featuring baby’s first interp panels 😁) #towerpoppies
I do quite like Greenwich actually 🏴☠️🇦🇶⚓️
April 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I do quite like Greenwich actually 🏴☠️🇦🇶⚓️
great god this is a (historic royal) place 🇦🇶
Captain Scott is one of the many fabulous ‘palace pioneers’ exploring Hampton Court this Easter holiday - it was great chatting with our brilliant wardrobe manager Erin about Con’s polar wardrobe and seeing her handiwork in action 😁
Captain Scott is one of the many fabulous ‘palace pioneers’ exploring Hampton Court this Easter holiday - it was great chatting with our brilliant wardrobe manager Erin about Con’s polar wardrobe and seeing her handiwork in action 😁
April 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
great god this is a (historic royal) place 🇦🇶
Captain Scott is one of the many fabulous ‘palace pioneers’ exploring Hampton Court this Easter holiday - it was great chatting with our brilliant wardrobe manager Erin about Con’s polar wardrobe and seeing her handiwork in action 😁
Captain Scott is one of the many fabulous ‘palace pioneers’ exploring Hampton Court this Easter holiday - it was great chatting with our brilliant wardrobe manager Erin about Con’s polar wardrobe and seeing her handiwork in action 😁
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM