Vicky Garrington

History Curator @EdinCulture. Dress history, design, material culture of the World Wars and doing things digitally. Loves being a professional Magpie.

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If you’re a big fan of the George Brown & Sons building at the Shore, have a read of my blog about their groundbreaking work in WW2 #Leith #Edinburgh

https://t.co/vvp5u4vFOC

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New blog up about a Mary Quant blouse and the legendary Goldbergs department store in Tollcross https://t.co/qaVUaWhrj8

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Drinking my morning coffee and thinking about the many generations of coffee-addicts in Edinburgh - more about that in this blog ☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Edinburgh #History #CoffeeLovers

https://t.co/hFhtjxKpPf

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What can museum collections teach us about fashion sustainability? Take a deep dive with me into repair, re-wear and re-use in my October talk https://t.co/uqqPaZaQGs
#Edinburgh #Fashion #Sustainability

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Our new @EdinCulture exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh, Past Meets Present… is now open. Showcasing recent additions to the collection including lots of #ContemporaryCollecting It’s a must if you’re interested in how and why we collect for the future

https://t.co/ouQFUMBfcq

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Finishing touches happening today for the new @EdinCulture exhibition Past Meets Present at the Museum of Edinburgh, opening Saturday. Showcasing our recent acquisitions from Covid to costume, BLM placards to brewing #Museums #ContemporaryCollecting

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@rowanrush Big congratulations to you both! 🥳

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An exhibition definitely worth catching

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The inaugural Scottish Landscape Awards exhibition opened on Saturday at the City Art Centre. Read more here: https://t.co/BshhgaIF6v by @agency_edin

Photo one: 'BASS ROCK’ by Kate Davis and David Moore, winners of the LAPECA Scottish Landscape Award and £10,000 prize.

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We love diving into the hidden histories of our objects. This one’s an absolute gem 🤩

[Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture]

*Exciting News!*. We have recently acquired a wedding dress that connects the city of #Edinburgh to the groundbreaking American nuclear physicist J. Robert #Oppenheimer. 📢Read all about it!📢
https://t.co/7zDh5LdhaV

[Edinburgh Libraries @TalesOfOneCity]

Edinburgh has played a significant role as a centre for LGBTQ+ activism and culture. Our Rainbow Past on Our Town Stories describes some of the key moments and places in contemporary LGBTQ+ activism and culture in the city.
https://t.co/MbhRXK9WXp
@menacesof2019 @EdinCulture

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If you fancy hearing more about new-in items in the @EdinCulture dress & textiles collection, join me on 7 Nov at beautiful Lauriston Castle. Book below

https://t.co/pxE5iKa6KQ

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Chanced upon Katie the Cow on this Scottish Milk Marketing Board booklet from c1950s in the @EdinCulture stores this morning. I don’t know why this makes me giggle, but it really, really does :)

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Such a great project with @rowanrush and @EdinCulture Telling our stories better so that everyone can see themselves reflected in our collections 💥

[Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture]

New digital exhibition alert 📢 Explore some of our amazing LGBTQ+ objects and their connections to places across Edinburgh on the Our Town Stories platform here:

https://t.co/pFhd3JRQi4

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As we head towards a long hot summer and the schools break up, explore our one-day Museums & Galleries Edinburgh family itinerary. There are lots of lovely things to explore in our venues. Plan your trip here⬇️
https://t.co/SaVa2wXS0Z
#Edinburgh

[Travelling Gallery @travgallery]

Travelling Gallery will be parked @ClydeTownHall today, we're in the rear car park so you might not see the bus straight away if you're visiting. We'll be open 10 - 4, everyone welcome.

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The stone looks beautiful in black and white

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First time up the Scott’s monuments in many years with a guided tour from
@EdinCulture and those staircases hit different from my usual tenement adventures #blackandwhitephotography #edinburgh #staircase

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@gvullinghs @NtlMuseumsScot I love how these moulds often look like mid-century modernist sculpture!

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@A_M_Q Truly beautiful :)

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@douglasfitch1 @EdinCulture The best thing to do is msg our ‘contact us’ address (link in @EdinCulture bio) so you can be put in touch with our Applied Art curator and see what might be possible :)

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At beautiful Lauriston Castle today, working on some @EdinCulture collections care with the team. Focusing on condition-checking fabric remnants from the house’s decoration, some with original labels #Edinburgh #Scotland #Castles

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The danger of walking through the applied art section of the Museum Collections Centre @EdinCulture is that you’ll get distracted by beautiful things and forget what you were actually looking for 😍🧐🤩