The Museum from home event is about sharing what museums are doing to keep people entertained during the lockdown. Take a look at some of the activities we have posted. More ideas to follow...

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'All Welsh Rugby Players Go to Heaven' by the artist is one of a number of paintings from our collection that can be viewed on the excellent website here

https://t.co/N2JZgF0zoG

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Are you home schooling or do you just have an insatiable curiosity? Check out our education team's digital resources that you can use to teach or learn about the difficult, but exciting, history of medicine! https://t.co/YcHqhdAyis

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You can browse our Online Collections, which now has over 100,000 object records! Have a look through paintings, ceramics, sculptures, prints and so much more…https://t.co/w2yJgfZ0mQ

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Pimpernel wallpaper, designed by William Morris in 1876 and featuring blowsy tulips and the tiny pimpernel flowers which give the design its name. It covered the walls of the Morris family dining room at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, as seen in this 1896 photo.

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🖋️H.M. Bateman: The Late Arrivals, The Tatler, 3 December 1922. In a Royal Society of Arts lecture in 1949, Bateman first promoted the idea of a museum of cartoon art in Britain, a dream his daughter Diana (a founder of the Cartoon Art Trust) did much to realise.

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These drawings are remarkable for the extraordinary skill with which human characteristics are represented in animal facial features.

Scenes from the private and public life of animals, 1840-42.

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A late entry for the challenge. It’s from a story I was working on a few weeks ago where Joe Wicks announces he’s the Messiah and saves us all!

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Turner's House had to close in the middle of its sell out of original oil sketches of the Thames. But now everyone can see the exhibition from their homes with a guided tour by house director Ricky!
https://t.co/TGKfB1VGSf

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At 5pm we will announce the winner of the competition set up by ! We'll share some of the entries during the day. Still time to enter - please tag
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A is for Anniversaries, the biggest so far being the 1929 centenary parade in Hyde Park and the 1979 shows at Wembley Arena and . We're already limbering up for the bicentenary in nine years' time...

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In support of the fantastic for day tomorrow, here are some examples of my attempts to

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Our virtual drawing club returns tonight, and we'll be responding to this piece by war artist and nurse Rosemary Rutherford.

Join us: https://t.co/XKilvklEae

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Some fantastic entries coming through today!

You can take part in our challenge to too! Send us your bumpiest pictures for the chance to win some great art supplies.



Images: redartstudioonline (via Instagram) &

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Who are these women and how are they feeling? This thoughtful artwork, At the Dressmaker’s, gets us designing and sewing for today’s Do activities for schools and families. ✂️🧣👗👖

Find it here ➡️ https://t.co/SqqBrQcD80

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