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#Museum30 today is #Challenge It's a challenging time for everyone & the heritage sector is no different. How can you help? Support your local museums, visit them, donate & if you can't (we know times are hard), tell your friends, like that social media post, spread the word
birminghammuseums.org.uk/mus… Still a few tickets available for our Explore the Store session this Friday so book tickets via the link. Be aware that the warehouse gets rather cold at this time of year so make sure you wrap up warm. All tickets must be booked in advance
#Museum30 today is #Learning If a school can't go to a museum, we take a museum to a school! Our learning team distribute The Museum in a Box service to schools in the area to engage, stimulate, support & enrich their learning. More info here birminghammuseums.org.uk/sch…
#Museum30 today is #Fragmented We have quite a lot of fragments here at the MCC including bone, wood, fabric, pottery & wallpaper. Part of of our job here is to clean, conserve, document & where possible, repair these fragments & hopefully make them whole again
#Museum30 today is #Habitat We’re fairly industrial in this part of Brum so the few trees we do have are vitally important for the crows, wagtails & robins we get hopping around. A far cry from what it was like 250yrs ago when the site was near Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. See link
#HistoryOfBirmingham Prompted by an enquiry from the public, we’re sharing this illustration of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Duddeston from the mid-18th century until closure in 1850. Read more here: tinyurl.com/ElaineMitchell09. Image Ref - WK/S2/86 @LibraryofBham @elaineamitchell
ALT An illustration from a Bird’s eye perspective. Unfurled scroll in the top right of the image with the words Vauxhall Gardens written on it. A square grassed area in the middle of the illustration with a fountain in the centre, a series of pathways from the four corners of the square converging at the fountain, a wooded area all around the square. Figures in the square. An entrance area in the bottom right of the illustration with a clearing and a wooden archway - figures nearby. Properties and fields to the right of the wooded area. The land is on an incline.
For day 2 of #museum30 the word is #Introduction
We're an accredited museum holding over 80% of a collection of around a million items for BMT. MCC also cares for, researches & conserves artefacts both here as well as those on display at our other sites
It's #museum30 and day 1 is #YourMuseum We are the Museum Collection Centre in Birmingham, England and we hold over 800,000 objects. Some of which you can see every Friday
Happy Halloween, Samhain, All Saints Eve. Are you doing anything spooky? Or are you just going to eat all of the sweets you bought for the trick or treaters and claim that they never came round? Here's a raven in honour of the master of the macabre- Edgar Allen Poe #Nevermore
It's a good job its not nearly Halloween as opening up in the dark might be a tad scary..............😱
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This year's prompts for #museum30 are here! Which are you most excited about?
The challenge starts this Friday so it's time to get planning...
birminghammuseums.org.uk/mus… Only a couple of tickets left for this Fridays Explore the Store so grab them via this link whilst you can.
Explore the Store runs every Friday between 12.30-2.30pm so they'll be plenty more opportunities if you can't make this Friday
Happy Friday everyone! Hope we all feel as happy as this guy in the painting "A Man with Post Horn and Glass of Wine in Hand" by William John Wainwright.
By the look on his face he's DEFINITELY thinking about drinking the port through that horn!
You can visit us every Friday from 12.30-2.30 for our Explore the Store sessions. It's a self guided tour through our warehouse & transport section where you'll get to see all manner of random objects. Prices and booking details are here birminghammuseums.org.uk/mus…
Interesting short film. I think most people of a certain age remember long slow Sundays. Some people loved it, others hated it. Such is the way of life
"Boring? Or just nice and quiet?"
#OnThisDay 1957: Panorama reported on the British Sunday, when shops and theatres were closed and most sporting activities prohibited. Was it time to relax some of these laws?