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Day 28
This engraving by James Gillray shows asleep on a bed of hay. Its inscription reads “Tom Paine’s Nightly Pest” Perhaps more of a Nightmare!

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2020-11-28


The "Gallic Warrior-God statuette", helps my research on (perfect size 👌)

55cm H., dated 1st AD (style or associated finds of deposited weaponry in a Gallic sanctuary?), made of 22 sheets of cold hammered latten (zinc+copper)
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2020-11-26

Jour 23

Petite série “vintage” de cartes postales pour exprimer son amour à sa compagne ou à son compagnon ! Au verso, des témoignages tendres et amoureux d’un soldat à sa fiancée.

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2020-11-24

Day 22:
Who doesn't love a masked ball! These early 20th Century masks are thought to have been worn to a ball at Nostell Priory. They are (in clockwise order) The Motorist, A Court Beauty, Kathleen Mavourneen and A Fair Motorist.

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2020-11-22

This was to the Holte family for nearly 200 years!

It was later leased by James Watt Jr. who spent most of his time in the 'back rooms', using the west side of the house as the main entrance instead of the east.

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2020-11-20

Day 18: I❤️#mummyportraits & have been lucky enough to spend a fair amount of time investigating these over the years but choosing my favourite is still such a Do you have a favourite or elsewhere? Let me know!

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2020-11-18

Tool of the trade for Charles Dickens. Painting seen on a visit to this summer

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2020-11-15

jour 12
Alors, si vous deviez choisir, quel préfèreriez-vous ? À moins que certains ressemblent déjà au(x) vôtre(s) 😉?

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2020-11-13

Day 10
Pre-Raphaelite member, Henry Holiday (1839-1927), designed a series of tiles based on the fairy tale, 'The Little Mermaid', written by Hans Christian Andersen. They were produced by Minton Hollins & Co in c.1880.

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2020-11-11

Day 7 of
This is an oil painting called 'Wood of the Philosophers' from our collection. It is an early 19th century copy after Salvator Rosa (1615-1673).

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2020-11-08

Day 29 of ‘Exhibition’

The current exhibition explores the first animals; new life forms that evolved in the sea over half a billion years ago and laid the foundations for the body plans of all subsequent animal life

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2019-11-29

Row, row row your Stanley Ferry Log boat - well maybe not this one! A rare Anglo – Scandinavian find, has highlighted Wakefield’s Viking history. On display in Wakefield Library, above Wakefield Museum, on loan from 🚣‍♂️

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2019-11-21

Day 20 It is always where our specimens come from! Many use bioluminescence. On the underside of this Hatchet fish you can see the light organs which hide it from predators, while the eyes point up to look for prey.

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2019-11-21

Day 17 of ‘Unique Object’

While the archive has an abundance of papers related to research on the natural world, the archive preserves only one pair of shoes which belonged to John Obadiah Westwood, the first Hope Professor of Zoology

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2019-11-18

If that wasn't enough . . . Here is another in our collections. The handwritten label states that the plums in this jar were pickled the day war broke out: 4th August 1914

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2019-11-17

day17 is unique object. This is a notebook from Philip James Rufford. On the left is his drawing of the type specimen of Williamsonia carruthersii which is in the collection at

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2019-11-17

Its a bit of a miserable Autumn day outside today, but our favourite we have seen at the Museum so far was when the Beast from the East hit and covered the Museum ground in a pristine layer of snow. It reminded us of Victorian scenes of skating on the Thames!

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2019-11-14

'Cupid delivering Psyche' by Edward Burne-Jones, 1867. Based on a poem derived from Greek myth by William Morris, Cupid rescues his lover Psyche from the Underworld: "Rise, Psyche, and be mine for evermore". Displayed in Dreams and Nightmares exhibition.

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2019-11-13

for theme today, sharing this huge neon by installed over our museum entrance that flashes the words “LOVE OVER RULES” all day & all night.
And leading a gallery talk program today about “love”
❤️❤️❤️❤️

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2019-11-13