One of the first purpose built free museums to open outside of London in 1874!
Blackburn
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BTS at our third kit shoot 📸
Thank you to @BlackburnMuseum for hosting us 🤝
#Rovers 🔵⚪️
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
To be invited to showcase some of my crazy collections off in Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery as part of their Come As You Really Are Exhibition is an honour.
@BlackburnMuseum @blackburndarwen
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
Sport is the theme for today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange for 'Rovers: 150 years' at BlackburnMuseum! We've chosen 'Ice Hockey at Westover Ice Rink', a drawing by Henry George Gawthorn.
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Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
This week's #OnlineArtExchange by @artukdotorg theme is Sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @BlackburnMuseum!
Here we have a lovely oil painting of adults and children fishing on the Fisher Fleet by Group Captain Alexander Charles Winter (1887-1969). 🎣
ALT Men and boys fishing along a sandy bank, surrounded by the wooden structures of docks.
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers RC @BlackburnMuseum ⚽
We thought this Willie Rodger rug, 'Red Card', was perfect! 🏁 Orginally a woodcut print from 1996, this design was translated into a gun-tufted rug in 2003🧵@artukdotorg
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
This week’s #OnlineArtExchange is ‘Sport’ celebrating Blackburn Football Club’s 150th birthday @BlackburnMuseum! ⚽
🎾 With Wimbledon approaching, we’ve chosen Arthur Melville’s tennis scene from our collection. Note to self: Put strawberries and cream on the shopping list! 🍓
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
This week's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @BlackburnMuseum
Here's Stamford Bridge by Orcadian artist Steven MacIver (b.1979) from the
Art & Heritage Collections @RobertGordonUni
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
Today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange theme is sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club
@BlackburnMuseum
This is a 1885 @VanityFair Spy Cartoon of @NewmarketRace.
ALT A colour cartoon of a jockey on a thin brown horse surrounded by a crowd of men in top hats and bowler hats.
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @BlackburnMuseum 👉 blackburnmuseum.org.uk/whats…
Join in and share your favourite sporting artworks 🏉⚽🎾
'The Young Polo Player' by William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881–1941) 📷 @BlackburnMuseum
ALT Young polo player in white polo uniform
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is sport for 150 years of Blackburn Rovers Football Club @BlackburnMuseum ⚽
'Golfer Resting' by Kyffin Williams (1918–2006) © @nlwales
ALT Golfe resting on grass
Today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is rural to celebrate @TullieCarlisle's Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs exhibition! 🧵
Here's 'Hallbankgate' c. 1930 by Winifred Nicholson 🖼️
🏛️ @TullieCarlisle
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Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
💙 Hundreds of #Rovers fans flocked to @BlackburnMuseum to meet captain Lewis Travis, keeper Balazs Toth, and recent debutant Kristi Montgomery - and to check out the new exhibition celebrating our upcoming 150th anniversary!
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Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
Today, myself and a colleague took a trip to @BlackburnMuseum to take a look at the 150th anniversary celebration of @Rovers ! It was lovely to see and think back to a time, way before I was born! Looking forward to what the club and town do in the upcoming season to celebrate!🙌
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
Wondering what do on Easter Sunday? Come and visit Turton Tower and see Historic European Martial Arts from The Silver School of Arms in action. We also have the lovely ladies from Harwood Harmonies Ladies Choir giving a tune 🎶 or two.A great day, weather permitting! 💕☀️🤞
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
📖 #Rovers fans are at the heart of a special exhibition to mark our 150th anniversary.
Opening this week at @BlackburnMuseum, the exhibition brings together treasured memories, memorabilia and historic footage to capture what it truly means to support our beloved club!
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Today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange theme is windmills for 'Anglesey Windmills' at @Oriel_Mon! 🌬️
We've chosen, 'Windmill' by George Frost. ✍️
📸 Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
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Today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange theme is biodiversity to celebrate the relaunch of @Cornwall_Museum! 👏🏛️🌿
Here's 'A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula' by Jan van Kessel. 🐞🪲🦋
🏛️ @AshmoleanMuseum
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
CALL OUT:
@towneleyhall are looking for handmade, unique and original creations by Artists and Craftspeople of all disciplines to sell in their Museum & Gallery Shop.
Email Jack Shackleton - [email protected]
Deadline: 14th April 2025
towneley.org.uk/
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery retweeted
We had the pleasure of hosting the High Sheriff of Lancashire, Helen Bingley, while she toured The making rooms and @BlackburnMuseum
She spoke to our Health Manager @nkhanu1 about some of the health projects run by our charity.
The visit also included a meeting with representatives from the Community for Voluntary Service and @blackburndarwen
All organisations which play vital roles in strengthening community ties and supporting local initiatives.
