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In our last exhibition we asked visitors to pick from 90 early 20th century glass eyes to find which was the best match for their own eyes. After almost 800 responses, around 6% of people went with this blue eye, the most universal eye of our visitor base

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Seems fitting that they played the Bargain Hunt theme tune at the end of the Huddersfield Town match, given that our two centre backs have the pace and passing range of a French dresser.

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Join us in Leeds for the first national Access in Museums Conference. In partnership with @gem-heritage.bsky.social and YAMN (Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network). museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/112...

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Can our digital avatars make our real selves healthier? A little thing I wrote to go with our last exhibition thackraymuseum.co.uk/what-is-a-di...

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@lccmunicipal.bsky.social On display at Leeds Art Gallery @leedsmuseums.bsky.social. The photo shows The Lesson by Franta Belsky, 1957-61, at the Avebury estate in Bethnal Green.

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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

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My partner is always asking me to be more whimsical. I asked her what she thought the geopolitical effect of Santa Claus would be if he was really real. She told me to stop being whimsical.

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Off to give a #Christmas talk in #Leeds this morning so time to share my favourite photo of a 1946 children's Xmas party gatecrashed by monster fruit!

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Breaking: doctors starting to suspect that women's bodies work differently than men's

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Today at the museum The Breathing Room a space to share about loss 1030 - 1230 Cosy Thursdays 2 - 5 Copwatch intervention training 530 - 8 All welcome ❤️

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Hummus on a shovel.

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A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace. We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet. (Better with sound).

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Nothing like the traditional Marsden Christmas lights.

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In wartime Fez, Morocco, French military physician Jean Julliard invented a 'blood donation chamber'. You just had to stick your arm through a hole in the wall and all the messy business with needles happened out of sight. They became popular across France in the 50s, but not really anywhere else.

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Visiting @ourmoh.bsky.social today was like hanging out with friends. I had such a good time! Thank you to Joe, Lady, Gideon and everyone who made me feel so welcome.

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Ok, so here goes. Time to open Spotify Unwrapped..

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Science communicators when they have to correct another piece of misinformation yet again

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments

Massive away win for the little fella.

submitted 88 days ago • 589 comments

We did a Christmas thing!

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Who is Mummy Meegz?

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Thackray is front page news!

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Brilliant work from our top archivist Rob.

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Optimist: the cup is ½ full Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty Museum worker: either way it’s not coming into the gallery. You can drink that outside, and we don’t care that it was our cafe that sold it you in a takeaway cup. #Museums

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🤩!!!!

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The hollow hypodermic needle was invented by Alexander Wood in 1853, and allowed drugs to be injected in the body under the skin. Unlike modern syringes, which use a plunger, this syringe works by turning the screw at the top to inject the liquid. Photo: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

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A real honour for Manchester Museum to be on the European Museum of the Year nominee list. Looking forward to hearing about all of the nominees and their work. europeanforum.museum/news/emya202...

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Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...

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and here’s the news that the plaque is agreed — an important precedent for the Rhodes plaque at Oriel College www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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This the kind of content I’m here for.

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The biscuit drawer is always one of our favourites...

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Christmas is coming..

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Us looking for 'that' drawer...

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.. and snow it ends.

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You should all go see wild at Manchester Museum! I did a thing about it for this month’s Museum Journal @museumsassociation.bsky.social

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The new Labour govt addressing the scandalous state of children’s social care should be cheered. #r4today Private companies profiteering from the most vulnerable children should shame us all

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‘Visit Properly’ is our Audience Segregation Model. In order to achieve our KPI’s we’ve worked hard to create visitor personas that reflect the visitors we want. If you don’t fit the persona. Please reconsider your decision to visit. #Museums 🧵(to follow over time)

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The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing

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