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Mbouda, Cameroon, 1980, by Jacques Toussele at his studio photo.

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Slightly biased but we love the views from the museum! With help from We're restoring the parks and gardens to their Georgian glory!

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This black and white group photograph shows the Norfolk Women's Hockey Team at Southwold in 1924.

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Dorothy Walker was a keen gardener and photographer. She looked after the garden at 7 Hammersmith Terrace, due in part to her gardening notebooks, we know that it is still roughly laid out today as it was in the 1890s.

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These historic images of Christchurch Mansion are from early postcards. The interior photos are post-1892 when the Mansion was slowly turned into a museum. The exterior images are pre-1914. The statue was said to have been melted down to help the war effort.

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We have some great photographic collections and we've digitised many of these and made them available for downloading on our Digital Collections site. We are also continually adding new collections to this resource! https://t.co/g35jbaMRgI

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Celebrating old and new today Our finback whale - washed up on a beach in Sussex in 1865, it has belonged to Museum since 1866. In 1865 you would have been charged six pence to see our finback, now it's free.....

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Soprano Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1915-2006 during an opera masterclass Edinburgh 1980

One of the leading voices post WWII, she was born in Jarotschin, then Germany - now Poland, she later became a British citizen
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https://t.co/UsGz7BFpwM

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These Victorian mugshots of prisoners evoke many emotions.

Photographing of criminals began a few years after the invention of photography in the early 19th century. The process was standardised by French police officer Alphonse Bertillon

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📸 Êtes-vous plus ou moins organisés que l'étaient les Égyptiens il y a plus de 3300 ans ? Avouez que chaque objet semblait avoir sa place dans le tombeau de Toutankhamon ! 🤗

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These photographs are part of a collection of 110 calotypes by D. O. Hill. An early form of photography, they were made using paper coated with silver iodide. Along with Robert Adamson, Hill produced portraits & images of Edinburgh in the nineteenth century

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