Oooh, the Elizabeth Line at Tottenham Court Road is so precisely engineered that the reflections of the posters on one side line up with the posters on the other ๐ฑ๐
@TfL
@MrTimDunn
@nmac1968
@CarlaHowarth
@abcnewsTas
Same, but also I'm quite comfortable with abominations against nature, so if people fancy a disgusting pizza that's fine by me :)
BREAKING ๐จ:
@BBC
uses infuriating "gathers dust" fallacy *twice* to describe objects in archival storage, DESPITE including a photo showing them adequately stored in archival boxes... ๐คช
One of my favourite things to do while typing up old catalogues is to subvert the historic sexism of men being given full names and women just being known as 'Mrs Jones' (for example) by researching their names and editing the catalogue. :)
Historical films are not โfake historyโ, theyโre stories. They arenโt documentaries and nor do they try to be. So long as historians are able to publicly respond (which we do in droves) these films are helpful, not a hindrance, in stimulating public fascination with the past
The Mail thinks that "VE Day" stands for "victory *over* Europe". A potent mixture of profound ignorance and jingoism, from a paper which had published antisemitic ๐ฉ about Jewish refugees from Hitler a few years beforehand
Ht
@CeitidhD
Tonight's work Christmas Do is the night my colleagues discover I'm not just gay, I'm "sequined blazer and pearls for a work Christmas party" gay ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐
@JayHulmePoet
If we're talking about bodged cathedrals surely Toulouse gets a mention! It's like someone stuck together all the offcuts (and I fucking love it!)
This is marble.
*marble*
Look at how un-stone-y this light, draped fabric is, that is so thin and delicate that it moulds to the chair underneath.
It's MARBLE!!! ๐ฑ
Can we all just take a moment to bask in the glow that is my new water bottle that
@jackshoulder
got me ๐ฅฐ๐ง
(Reposted because my address was visible ๐ฌ)
#AskACurator
is an opportunity to ask proper questions. Don't just ask 'what's your favourite object?' Ask 'What's your city musem doing to adequately reflect the people of your city?' 'How is your institution reaching beyond the communities who come through the doors?'
This week I fulfilled a lifeโs ambition - I did a stint as a Gallery Attendant
@britishmuseum
. Blimey it is really hard work. But it gives a whole new perspective & you learn a huge amount about museum visiting, which we will discuss on
@BBCFrontRow
Late bbc2 Friday 11.05
In April 2023
@jackshoulder
and I will have been doing this; a different bum every day*, no holidays, no breaks**, 365 days/year, for 7 years. ๐ง๐๐๏ธ๐
*We may have repeated our favourites once or twice... ๐
**There were one or two gaps at the start... ๐ค
It's been a great year for
#MuseumBums
, our
#TopNine2022
has artists like Annie Leibovitz, Tennessee Williams and Keith Haring as well as your ever-lovin' curators of bums. ๐๐๏ธ๐
BTW, Jonathan Bailey is now a huge part of V&A's musicals exhibition, so his bum doubly counts now.
#Bristol
's got a new
#statue
๐.
I think I'm right in saying that this is the first statue in Bristol of a real Bristolian woman. ๐ฑ
#BlackLivesMatter
In a thousand years from now an archaeologist will discover your skeleton and go โarchaeologists only study human material culture, I'd better leave this for an osteology specialistโ
Well, today was my last day at
@BristolArchives
#Archives
(For the record, I wasn't *asked* to leave)
It's been an excellent 7.5 years and I've learned a lot ๐
Onwards!
After spending the last two days in churches, talking to vicars, the newly baptised and other Christian people, I have come to an important realisation about myself:
If I were in charge of communion I would definitely swap out the wafers for gingerbread people. โบ๏ธ
Ooooh, it's one week until my talk about researching
#LGBTQ
histories at
@BristolArchives
.
It's free, and it's an hour, and you could probably convince your manager that it's work ๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
@thehistoryb0y
Um. It's not you, it's us. It's the pretty lights that attract but we're stone underneath and hollow inside. Maybe 120 years ago but now there's such an age gap... Friends?
Thanks everyone who's contributed to and enjoyed
@museumbums
this year.
Please keep sharing your (museum)bums!! ๐คฃ
2022 is going to be an even wilder ride!! ๐๐๐๏ธ๐
#MuseumBums
2021 has been a wild ride, but we managed to share a whole year's worth of beautiful bums, cultural culs and glorious glutes with you! Thank you so much for your likes and support - wishing you all a
#MuseumBums
tastic 2022.
Did your favourite make it into our
#Top9
? ๐๐๏ธ๐
Are there awards for
#cathedral
lighting designs? Because
@HFDCathedral
should win one.
The yellows & golds picking out the chevrons on the arches, contrasting the natural light's whites & blues; and the graded shadows of the fan vaulting in this transept make me so happy ๐คฉ
Just started listening to
@dadwroteaporno
. Apart from it causing me to have a stupid grin and actually laugh out loud on my walk home, I think I have a crush on James' voice ๐
We will reform the private rental sector with a Help to Rent scheme, giving all first-time renters under 30 tenancy deposit loans to help get into the market
#BrighterFuture
I'm really honoured to have my photo on display at
@SSGreatBritain
as part of the
@BristolPride
Art Trail ๐๐ธ๐
@LizWestStudio
's "Our Colour" installation was utterly mind-blowing and I'm so glad we can re-live it in a small way!
Are you out and about in Bristol, if so check out the LGBT Art Trail!
Running throughout July, incredible art will be displayed across the city by LGBT+ artists brought together by
@KGravil
& Karen Freer.
For more details & to download the map๐
โListeners join us as we enter dusty archives, hunt down rare books in the library stacks and hear the hum of microfiche machinesโ Australiaโs first investigative history podcast via
@historylabpod
@IHR_Library
Ok, so
@museumbums
is on 9,998 followers right now.
If any kind souls wanted to follow just so I can see us tick over to 5 figures of followers this evening, I'd love you very much. ๐๐ฅฐ