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The museum of forward planning. A vision you can’t see, for a future you can’t believe. Doing more, with less, more often. Home of the #LookAfterYourself well-being campaign. Not an actual museum https://museum-of-forward-planning.teemill.com/
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Our latest exhibition examines how tough it is to operate a #Museum - balancing the financial need against the desire for independent thought. ‘Penny for your remaining principles’ Sponsored by BP

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Rolling out our visitor-led design workshop again today. Typically nobody from the visitor operations team has signed up for the 9.30 kick off time. What DO they do all day? #Museums #VisitorExperience

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Enjoying. Not enduring. FFS #LearningOutcomes

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Our retrospective of all our recent family fun activities begins next week! Dull but worthy - Where’s The Fun challenges families to complete 27 learning outcomes while enduring the exhibition. #Museums

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Excited to launch our new exhibition! Previously Unseen A retrospective of our collection of invisible modern art - is a unique opportunity to enjoy our architect designed spaces (without the collection messing things up) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘at last’ - Architect ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘cheap to manage’ - Security #Museums

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Love Oscar Wilde - he understood collections management. #Museums

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Shania Twain’s been in again. Hate her Trip Advisor reviews. #Museums #Galleries

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FFS! Family Fun Saturday is BACK And as it’s half term we’ve reintroduced the special strong coffee in the cafe. Ear defenders are available #Museums Don’t forget this is aimed at our audience segment - #Homework Hustlers

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No increased funding for imaginary #Museums (again)

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Pleased to be launching our brand new AI experience this weekend. Augmented Irritation sees us: - making all the queues a bit too long - adding more ticket check points - tables slightly too small for your tray in the cafe - a very complex range of ticket prices #Museums #AI

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As we approach the end of half term - just an update on how the teams are doing. #Museums #Galleries #Heritage

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Combining our latest museum exhibition interpretation with our annual budget finalisation. #Immersive #Exhibition

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We ARE NOT giving in. We aren’t having half term whether you are or not.

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HALF TERM? Isn’t that last week or next week? Isn’t it half term where you’ve traveled from but not here? Here’s some wax crayons and scrap paper. #FamilyActivities #Museums

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No! We do not have a petting zoo. It’s rats. Back away! Not in the cafe, in the cafe that bit is a petting zoo. #MembersOnly

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Fading memories Our latest exhibition recalls a time when there was actual funding for #Museums Please bring a torch, we’ve had to switch the lights off to keep costs down

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After excessive investment we have finally launched the new ticketing system. Data transfer was easier than expected to be fair. And as the Trustees said ‘that’s us fine for another 25 years’ #Museums

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Our historic farming exhibition in our new multi-purpose toilet / quiet room / prayer room space isn’t going well.

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Our book on how not to run a #Museum continues to sell, which is bonkers really - unless it’s been misunderstood and that explains current policy in some areas. The Museum of Forward Planning (MOfP): Real stories from our imaginary museum amzn.eu/d/4mjVkkL

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Do you have the ‘broad experience’ to unlock the ‘competitive salary’ associated with our roles? #Museums #Heritage #Culture

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Water cycle All the water sold in our #Museum shops and cafe comes direct from the buckets collecting under our leaking roof! We have lots in stock

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After a long discussion by the trustees yesterday we’ve got sing-off to launch the ‘museum of tomorrow programme’ We’ll shortly be looking for volunteers to join us in re-imagining our underfunded future as a mobile van-based attraction! #ExcitingTimes #ExitingTimes #Museums

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Should the council fund museums or bin collections? Have you seen some of the stuff people donate to our collection? It’s not that different

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Great news ! Our ongoing efforts to cut costs have received a boost. With the boiler being condemned yesterday we will no longer be spending on heating or hot water. All savings will be ploughed into new buckets to support the rainy days inside immersive roof experience.

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Looking back and remembering happier times when the Trustees supported proper vanity projects. Now it’s all ‘let’s replace the lightbulbs rather than fixing the roof’ #Museums

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Delighted to b opening our new exhibition today! Less pleased that the requests by the operational teams have been ignored and we haven’t gone with a linear route (again). Still - good luck all! #Museums At least the Press Review went well - nothing published yet, nobody has emerged since Friday

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We appreciate that technical issues mean our revolving entrance doors are turning slightly faster than ideal. Please speak to one of our motivational entrance volunteers - they’ll give you a pep talk and with a decent run up you can make it through.

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As we enter the last couple of months of the financial year we have decided to reduce the stress on everyone and drive down costs. #WellbeingWednesday activities have been cancelled until April! Please is the time to work harder #NoYoga #LookAfterYourself #Museums

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Inspired by the article in the Guardian today. #BadPoems #Museums

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If you’re planning to visit today we are planning to welcome you* #Museums *except THAT member, we all know who we mean.

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February! That stage in the financial year where we are praying nothing breaks until 1st April and running without the lights on.. because #Budgets #Museums Or, as conservation colleagues call it #Dreamtime

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If you’ve reached stop 278 on the audio guide. We are sorry about that. We appear to have merged three different exhibitions in one. We appreciate your patience and added dwell time

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Visitor announcement You haven’t been ‘accidentally locked in’ - we are providing and unexpectedly immersive experience and delivering increased dwell time. Pipe down. Security will see you first thing. #museums

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We are DELIGHTED WITH THE DECISION TO SUPPORT ANOTHER RUNWAY AT HEATHROW. AS A RESULT ALL OUR AUDIOGUIDES AND INTERACTIVES WILL BE TURNED UP TO 11 #Museums

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If you purchased one of the new range of stuffed animals from the gift shop - please do get in touch - we need to talk. Equally, ticket holders for the taxidermy exhibition can claim a refund. We agree, the displays were inauthentic. #StocktakeDay

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