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Winter for today's calls for one of our most popular artworks 💫

Southport For A Holiday In Wintertime by Fortunio Matania is on display in our Between Land and Sea museum.

Apparently, the artist hid a sordid secret in this piece, can anybody guess what it is? 🔍

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2022-11-14

Since World War I have been used as a way to remember & honor all veterans. Thank You to all who have served.

"Oriental Poppy" by Leureta Beam Thieme
"Red Poppies" by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
"Poppies Aglow" by Carolynn McMillan

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2022-11-12

Scelidotherium leptocephalum is the name for a species of extinct ground sloth, first described based on a partial skeleton discovered by Charles Darwin in 1833.

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2021-11-29

Nothing says like our 'Wriggle' exhibition. The exhibition has been on a tour from Cardiff, Aberystwyth and St Davids. It has now landed

Come and discover all the fascinating things you never knew about worms!

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2021-11-29

- Day 20 -

We have more than 120 works by American Modernist artist Charley Harper in our collection. Most feature wildlife, but the "model" here could well be someone's family Who flinches first in this faceoff: the bulldog 🐶 or the crab 🦀? (OSAC 00039)

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2021-11-21

This woodcut shows a gardener harvesting medicinal crops. Knowledge of the properties of plants and herbs was harnessed by medical doctors but also less formal practitioners.

Find out more in our online exhibition Toil & Trouble https://t.co/imsC7QhYBV

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2021-11-19

We’re so excited to be able to celebrate our brand-new Elizabethan mariner costumes
for today’s which is
Designs by our amazing , shirts by and Cassocks by Juliet Braidwood.

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2021-11-19

Jumping on the bandwagon to celebrate lesser-known objects in our collection...Ancient Egyptian footwear from Hawara! This red leather slipper dates back to the Byzantine era, while the Roman woollen toe socks could have been worn with sandals in cooler months.

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2021-11-18

Day 13 of is

One of my favourites are these tiny brushes that are only around 4cm long and can easily fit in the palm of your hand.
We don't know much about these brushes but with their intricate flower designs they are very cute.

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2021-11-13

Bob painted this Archaeopteryx for us back in 2012.

His new model for shows how our understanding of the Urvogel's appearance and palaeobiology has changed over the past decade

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2021-11-13

Day 12 of is

This gives us the opportunity to share fantastic artwork, which you can find throughout the museum, and are key to helping bring to life many of the fossils on display.

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2021-11-13

Lots of by feature in the Routed exhibition

The exhibition features memories of Barnsley Town Centre explored through writing, illustration, objects, poetry, photography, music and a series of carved wooden sculptural pieces

https://t.co/o1Kdywy00n

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2021-11-12

Colourful autumn leaves can make great art projects.
Why not take inspiration from plants pressed in our Botany collections? Find out how to press your own here: https://t.co/5GfgVKYefx

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2021-11-12

Pl. 30 of Shaw & Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany (v.3, 1791-92) is a bill. Freely available by - one of the many which provide invaluable content from their collections for everyone https://t.co/rcnEqk9g9t

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2021-11-07

Day 5: FIVE! On this and I present my five favorite paleontology cases at the showing off several cool from

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2021-11-06

today this beautiful Māori fish hook would have attracted fish because of the colour and flashes of movement and light created by the iridescent pāua shell and feather.

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2021-11-04

Throwing on the situation is a running theme in our collections, both large (station lamps - 1) and small (lanterns - 2) ...

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2021-11-04

Set your alarms for 6pm this evening!
Something exciting is being released (I think you can probably tell what it is!)

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2021-10-25

Somehow this year is the 5th annual - how did that happen?! Is there anything you’d want to see this year to celebrate?

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2021-10-01