Museum people: 🚨 Job alert! 🚨
We currently have a 10 month maternity cover post at the @V_and_A for a Senior Documentation Officer in my amazing Collections Management team.
The closing date is 5 January. Why not take a look? #museums#hiring 👇
https://t.co/9qwmxR6n9k
Museums and collections people! Coming up in February, one of my team, Senior Documentation Officer Neil Carleton, will be sharing his 30 years+ experience of numbering and marking museum objects in this @V_and_A Academy professional development course:
https://t.co/UlrzIcTO6X
Glorious morning earlier on the way to @MuseumsAssoc conference. Great sessions so far on climate change, anti-racism, deaccessioning, family-friendly museums, the museum data service, and more!
#Museums2023
We're recruiting @V_and_A for two new members of my Collections Management team - one fixed term role to Oct 2025 and one permanent role.
More details here: Documentation Officer x2 https://t.co/3ZWuDkfh2c
We’re excited to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer and a Junior Photographer to join us at V&A Wedgwood Collection, both on fixed-term contracts for 24 months.
Applications close Sunday 19 March.
Salary £25,070 - £27,550 pro rata
Apply:
https://t.co/sfLwrbDi30
An insightful session from the @V_and_A's @PamYoung01 and Irene Tortorella on how the DAM system (DAMS) has been supporting curatorial and non-curatorial staff in managing and maintaining a huge volume of digital assets at #DAMandMuseums
Sign up here: https://t.co/xbsW0U11qS
I'll be speaking at the DAM and Museums online conference on 9 Feb. We'll be outlining the development of image management at the V&A from the 19th century to the current DAMS as part of the Museum’s strategy of improving public access to its collections.
https://t.co/I6bcBo9mNY
Everything wrong with our politics, in one story:
Hedge fund manager buys large estate on Dartmoor.
Uses vast fortune to challenge the right to camp there. Wins.
Local people call on their MP to amend the legislation.
Discover he's been funded by the hedge fund manager.
I'll be speaking at the DAM and Museums online conference on 9 Feb. We'll be outlining the development of image management at the V&A from the 19th century to the current DAMS as part of the Museum’s strategy of improving public access to its collections.
https://t.co/I6bcBo9mNY
Happy New Year! 2022 has been a year of ups and downs, but I got to spend part of it back in my happy place of Egypt. Can't wait to see what 2023 brings 😀
Cats are revered animals in Islam & considered the quintessential pet. Admired for their cleanliness, they're allowed to enter homes & mosques
To celebrate the last Caturday of the year, here are the much loved cats of Masjid Al-Aqsa, the third-holiest site in Islam
A thread…
29th December 2022.
Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.
The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better.
Great news! Available from 3 January (#Tolkien's birthday!), as part of a new series of coins featuring King Charles III, the @RoyalMintUK will release a new £2 coin featuring the JRRT monogram and "Not all those who wander are lost" around the edge. Great stuff!
A map of your choice. Two winners picked at random. Announced tomorrow evening 🗺️
RT and follow (if you're not already) and I'll pop your name in the hat.
Your choices here https://t.co/Oe0oa1KWlP
A very merry Christmas to each and every one of my followers🎄
Frankincense, woodsy & sweetly aromatic, is one of the oldest commodities spanning more than 6,000 years. It was once prized more than gold! Frankincense is an integral part of Oman’s culture & heritage, its trade flourishing for centuries.
A thread on the frankincense of Oman…
NEW: Archaeologists have identified a 4000-year-old goldworking tool kit amongst the grave goods from an important Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge.
Here's a shiny #AntiquityThread on the work 🧵 1/13