Michael Turner

Art and garden historian. Classicist. Former curator of antiquities. FSA London. FLS London

[Michael Turner @michaelmuseums]

@MassimoOsanna @NicholsonMuseum @LEGO_Group Congratulations! Another piece of genius from @NicholsonMuseum and @LegoClassicists

[Massimo Osanna @MassimoOsanna]

Ho ricevuto dal @NicholsonMuseum di Sydney una minifigure che mi ritrae e che verrà inserita nella loro ricostruzione in #LEGO di #Pompei

[Thames Discovery Programme @ThamesDiscovery]

Love you #London. Our thoughts are with everyone affected.

[Michael Turner @michaelmuseums]

Congratulations to Jamie Fraser @britishmuseum on his appointment as the new senior curator @NicholsonMuseum

[John Lewis-Stempel @JLewisStempel]

‘If you tell a lie a fairy dies. If you buy the lie of cheap food a bird or a butterfly dies’ #TheRunningHare

[Chasing Aphrodite @ChasingAphrodit]

Palmyra busts reportedly offered recently at an ISIS auction in Raqqa for $150,000 per (NBC via Amr Al-Azm)

[M @mple97]

Loved seeing @IfordManor on #BigDreamsSmallSpaces on BBC2 tonight with @montysdognigel

[Michael Turner @michaelmuseums]

Sold out! 50 Objects 50 Stories book now available as a free download https://t.co/jQOoTspXYN

[M @mple97]

Edwardian Grade I listed garden architecture by Harold Peto in his former home @IfordManor #architectureMW

[John Lewis-Stempel @JLewisStempel]

Nice to see @CliveAslet's 5 best GB views inc #Llanthony (where, as it happens, I was married & kids christened) https://t.co/cX2PM1M33H

[Michy B @michaelamarea]

Kinda remarkable this Lion Lady in Canberra is from the same set as the stolen Shiva with Nandi @AGNSW #kapoorloot https://t.co/IMdIPRPDmI

[Michy B @michaelamarea]

India's High Commissioner to Oz says India definately wants looted antiquities back @poetryinstone @chasingaphrodite https://t.co/CD7AIeSZzq

[Chasing Aphrodite @ChasingAphrodit]

The National Gallery of Australia is "investigating" photographic evidence showing Lion Lady sculpture was taken... https://t.co/ICcKDWK9aI

[Michael Turner @michaelmuseums]

'I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face, than chariots of… https://t.co/YgLMpbd3mR

[Chasing Aphrodite @ChasingAphrodit]

First pictures from inside the recaptured city of Palmyra https://t.co/mN1aZemfRd

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Advert alert! Paperback of SPQR out on 1 April; & then I'm gobsmacked to be getting Bodley Medal in Oxford on 5th. https://t.co/WX18V2jixp

[Michael Turner @michaelmuseums]

Lost in thought and remembrance of their past powers and glory. Greek and Roman gods, emperors… https://t.co/vCXRAx6OAz

[Michael Turner @michaelmuseums]

Lovely to welcome @Ozartwriter to @NicholsonMuseum to talk new #Egypt exhibition #DeathMagic today. The first of many visits I hope :-)