This incredible portrait of @captaintommoore is being unveiled at the @NAM_London live on #BBCBreakfast.
It's part of events to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.
More here: https://t.co/JCD0PQADNk
19th Century Hussar's uniform? Actually it was made for @MonsoonUK in 2017.
Some interesting weekend reading for you: our own @CraftyCurator has written a blog for our friends @BodminKeep about Hussars' influence on military–and mainstream–fashion:https://t.co/xxDGAxvy8p
10 years.
20 million gigabytes of data.
425 million hi-res images of the Sun.
A new time-lapse video marks a decade of operations for our @NASASun Solar Dynamics Observatory. Watch: https://t.co/jRRWuBfcLb
Forgot to post these on the day, but two years ago we found what’s still my favourite object in the collection of @NTSCollections and still no one knows what it is #noprizesifyougetitright@Rachel_With_AnE@JohnMac1320
@AliceMaraner
@YorkshireMuseum I’m not a curator but I do work in museums and you’ve got to admit George the Goose is a fine specimen worthy of showing off! #bestbird
Two years ago today I replaced @Rachel_With_AnE photo of her beloved cat George with a picture of Kim Jong Un to see how long it would take her to notice.
"The taxidermist’s shop… there were stuffed owls and otters, boxes of glass eyes, tropical butterflies, fearful scalpels and strong whiffs of naphthalene."
#Quote taken from John Moore's A Pocketful of Acorns
Photo by Alistair Fenn
#taxidermy#wildlife#literature