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🐴Let Clyde the horse guide you in our new family trail at the National Museum of Rural Life.
🐴Find top tips, object highlights and activities to help you make the most of your visit.
Supported by players of @PostcodeLottery
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This brooch, Solitaire, memorialises everyday acts. It shows the artist (Melanie Bilenker) playing the card game on her bed. The piece encourages us to rethink what is special & important in our daily lives... what may have been unobserved or seemingly mundane is in fact a jewel
All this week we're sharing items from our contemporary design collections to brighten up your screens whilst it's gloomy outside.
Check back in all this week to find out more about these beautiful objects 😍
@insectweek A: These are the mouthparts of a female Highland midge, (Culicoides impunctatus). The ‘teeth’ at the end of her proboscis help to cut through skin and make Scottish summers unforgettable! #MysteryInsect #NIW2020
@insectweek Can you guess what insect this is from the close up?
Clue: The feeling of this #insect will be more familiar than this extreme close up...
Answers revealed at 5
#NIW2020 #MysteryInsect:
For more family fun, you could see what ground dwelling insects are in your garden by setting a pitfall trap: https://t.co/sPqUt5L4AC #EntoAtHome #NIW2020
We're enjoying the 🌈s popping up in windows as households share some #COVID19 solidarity.
Our Art & Design administrator shares a few 🌈s from our collection to help inspire you to make some (more) of your own #rainbowchallenge
https://t.co/RxzFCJ0HPf
We're enjoying the 🌈s popping up in windows as households share some #COVID19 solidarity.
Our Art & Design administrator shares a few 🌈s from our collection to help inspire you to make some (more) of your own #rainbowchallenge
https://t.co/RxzFCJ0HPf
As a palaeontologist I also spend time on my research. I use a method called X-ray micro-computed tomography to LOOK INSIDE FOSSIL’S BRAIN CAVITIES to understand more about how they thought and felt
It's #ChineseNewYear and #BurnsNight today.
And if you spend more than £30 in our shop you'll receive a Burns themed surprise gift in a #CNY red envelope.
Valid 25th-26th January.