#Museum30 Day 16 You can't have a team without #trust & this team is the best! Thanks Jo Kirby, Maarten van Bommel, @DavidPeggie & Josh Cannon, our AV wizard @britishmuseum, for getting #DHA40 on the road to a great start! & thanks for a great job chairing yesterday @IPetroviciu!
📢📢📢Just one week left to submit your abstracts for this year's "#Dyes in History and Archaeology" meeting @britishmuseum
Deadline 1st June! #DHA40
https://t.co/jTutB8CITZ
@prof_philp @StAChemistry @univofstandrews@news_RSE Equal congratulations to Prof Alison Hulme FRSE @EdinburghChem Two people who have taught me a huge amount about chemistry at very different stages in my career (I'm sure this was a major factor in their honours today 😄)
📢📢📢 The call for abstracts for the 40th #Dyes in History & Archaeology (#DHA40) meeting, to be held @britishmuseum 15-19 Nov. 2021, is now OPEN! This year the conference will be held entirely ONLINE & with a slightly altered format. For more info, go to https://t.co/jTutB8CITZ
Who better to introduce @ScienceWeekUK at the National Gallery than our own Scientific team?
#DidYouKnow that we've had a Scientific Department since 1934? #BSW21
Today's #OnlineArtExchange is about landscapes - can we toot our own horn by sharing 'Large Tree Group', a tapestry made with entirely undyed wool by Dovecot weavers in collaboration with artist @VictoriaCrowe__
Feels like the perfect scene for Jan!
https://t.co/zyRPQyPYx4
Quayside at Perth Harbour in the late 1800s.
Perth Harbour, with its sea going trade, encouraged the development of ship building. In the early 1800s, the industry was flourishing with over 400 ships launched between 1800 and 1819.
📷Magnus Jackson Collection Ref: MJ0878
Scottish weaver Archie Brennan is credited with bringing about a renaissance in tapestry weaving in Britain. Find out what famous photo inspired his woven Chains series: https://t.co/iqtGis3v6m
How do you get a ship in a bottle? You asked, our curators answered! And phew, we're thankful you did because this one was a question we've had for ages.
You might have seen Yinka Shonibare's ship in a bottle outside the Museum: https://t.co/S5DXUUfDZa #CuratorsAgainstTheClock