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It’s #MuseumsWeek & today is #WomenInCulture
Miriam Rothschild was a leading authority on fleas.She studied the life cycles of fleas & 1st to determine the jumping mechanism. Her book on parasitism (Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos) is a must & she co-Catalogued her fathers collection
Happy #MuseumWeek! 🎉As part of #WomenInCulture, we're celebrating the work of #Motherwell-born artist Millie Frood (1900-1988). She was heavily involved with the New Scottish Group, an influential group of independent artists based in #Glasgow 🎨 https://t.co/6UfntRKRml
Celebrating #womeninculture, we looked at the artists behind the Bishops of Worcester portraits. June Mendoza was the first woman to paint an official BoW portrait in 1970s & since then all have been by female artists. #museumweek @bishopworcester @CofEWorcester @churchofengland
Evelyn De Morgan, one of the most successful artists of her time, spent her early years at Cannon Hall @DeMorganF #WomenInCulture #MuseumWeek
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We can't wait for you to see our new exhibition #KapowCooper which opens on Saturday! Featuring artwork by @FionaPinUp
#WomenInCulture #MuseumWeek
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What’s involved in setting up an art exhibition? To kick off #museumsweek, Rebecca Rossiter of @PooleMuseum outlines her role in preparing for ‘Henry Lamb: Out of the Shadows’. #WomenInCulture
The Women's Voluntary Service was formed in 1938. By 1943 over 1 million volunteer women were involved in the war effort on the Home Front. This archive photo shows some of the Salvage Collectors in the WVS, in Hunstanton High Street, 1942. #WomenInCulture #MuseumWeek
#MuseumWeek #WomenInCulture Kathleen Drew-Baker, Mother of the Sea. Specimens at Manchester Museum
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Bertha Mason was a prominent businesswoman in #Colchester during the early 1900s. Like many women in history, we know more about the male members of her family. Thanks to @Snapthestiletto we have been able to uncover more about Bertha's life. #WomenInCulture #MuseumWeek2019
Il nostro #articolo su #LeMamme con #dipinto di Erminia Giordano https://t.co/j8i2VBr15l
#FestaDellaMamma #12maggio #mamma #MothersDay #MothersLoveIsReal #GilmoreGirls #Dumbo #StarWars #tarzan #Disney #WarnerBros #ScrivoArte #art #MondayMotivation #TraLePagine #WomenInCulture
Today we celebrate #WomenInCulture as part of #MuseumWeek2019 who better than the amazing couple #claudecahun and #marcelmoore who lived loved and worked together for more than 40 years creating a body of extraordinary work which we are proud to care for.
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
Georgia O'Keefe
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Raised in #Norwich, Margaret Fountaine led a life of science & exploration in the late 1800s, working as a lepidopterist, collecting +20,000 butterfly specimens across 60 countries. Her collection is held here & her sketchbooks at @NHM_London #WomeninCulture #MuseumsWeek
First post for @MuseumWeek #WomenInCulture. Edith Pargeter (better known as Ellis Peters, author of the Cadfael Mysteries). Was a Teleprinter PO at WA and wrote her book "She Goes to War" about her experiences.
Diana Ruth Wilson's incredible series of 200 watercolours record unusual plants that we have now lost or are losing in the local area #BotanicMonday #WomenInCulture #womensart #wildflowerhour #VisitSherborne
Hope Macpherson was Australia's first female curator, and part of the first group of female scientists allowed to travel to Antarctica
Here she is working on @museumsvictoria's shell collections c.1946
#WomenInCulture #MuseumWeek2019 #ThisIsMyMV