SMG Collections Team

The team responsible for the Scarborough Museums and Galleries Collections.

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

It's only been five years, but it's Robert Forster, Mayor (1869–1870 & 1884–1885)!

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

Right then lanternslide detectives! I have some photo's of Scarborough personalities (mainly Mayors by the looks) but none have any names with them! I recognise a few but your help identifying the rest would be great!
Number 1
#lockdownlanternslides
@SMTrust

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

A clear night on my birthday gave an opportunity to image M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

It's #WorldMonkeyDay 🐒🐒🐒
Here from the Clarke Charms Collection we have two soapstone 'Silent Monkeys' 🙊.
A popular good luck charm durning WW1, one of which was carried by a Scarborough soldier during the Great War.

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

Although they're extinct, we're still learning about this brilliant bird.

Our collection holds six amazing great auk eggs – one is almost 250 years old!

In 2017, we started a project with @sheffielduni to study the eggs, which is teaching us about the bird's breeding ecology🤯

[North Yorkshire Archives @nyccarchives]

This jolly #Xmas circular (1882) for #shopping at W Rowntree's of #Scarborough promises "fancy goods" suitable for Christmas and New Year's presents #ArchiveAdventCalendar @ARAScot

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@BarnsleyMuseums @YorkAdventurers @BrickwrksMuseum @WFMuseums @BrightonMuseums @ScarbsMuseums @SkiptonTownHall @LULGalleries @ColMuseums @NCMME Late to the game, but here's some coinage of Oliver Cromwell!

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@CoriniumMuseum @YMT_Adam @ScarbsMuseums @BarnsleyMuseums a museums #SpookyDollOff

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@BarnsleyMuseums Come on @ScarbsMuseums You've got this....

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@Dino_Dobrowski Modern reproduction of a Claudius coin from around AD 47.

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@ScarbsMuseums A pirate from Scarborough Mere. 1950s.

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@AdamRutherford Fracas.

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

It's #WorldEnvironmentDay! How can Museums contribute to environmental knowledge? Biological collections hold millions of samples of species collected from known locations on known dates. This can help demonstrate canges in distribution as well as being a huge scource for DNA.

[John Paul Koning @jp_koning]

Siege coins were emergency issues of coinage improvised by officials in cities under siege, and often cut up from dinnerware & jewellery.

Here's a short history just published by @CoinWeek: https://t.co/MPa1JLIhXQ

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@jp_koning @amelia_dowler @CoinWeek Let us not forget the Scarborough Siege coins...

[North Yorkshire Archives @nyccarchives]

Flying high over #Scarborough in Henri Salmet's Bleriot monoplane must have been quite an #adventure during the summer of 1913! #EYAAdventure #ExploreYourArchive

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@JackDAshby @ZoologyMuseum @AxelHNewton @DSRovinsky @khelgen @anjgoswami Tiny baculum?

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@McrMuseum @MuseumInsight @ILoveMCR @ward_esme We're a big fan of Lydia!
https://t.co/hWDglQFCQw

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

Looks like Thor has made it to Iceland. Compare the scars on his front flipper...

[Aron Leví Beck @aron_beck]

Rostungur í höfninni á Breiðdalsvík
mynd: Bjarni Stefán Vilhjálmsson

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@AnnieBrassey @BexhillObs @ofdarknmacabre The Bell Hotel, Church Street.

[SMG Collections Team @ScarbsCollect]

@emma_hallam @ScarbsMuseums @DullMuseumSnaps We agree, as I'm sure would @NHM_Oology