This MuseumWeek 2026 help shape the future of a volunteer-led museum in Croydon. We're recruiting new Trustees and welcome applications from people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.
Our volunteers recently visited the Science Museum to see Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth, Jason! Come and make your own Jason this Sunday at our next Open Day: https://t.co/abviNuycbG
Lots of talk about Black British culture today.
Just a polite reminder that @TheVoiceNews has been documenting that culture for 40+ years. 📰✊🏾
This is the front cover of the June issue - which is out now!
Read, learn and respect history! ❤️
Goodnight! x
Kanya King - who founded the Mobo Awards which celebrate Black British music - has died at the age of 57.
Her family said it followed a "courageous and characteristically determined battle" with colon cancer.
In a statement - they said the creation of the Mobo awards was an "act of cultural justice" which had demonstrated the power of Black music to a world which had too often chosen not to see it.
Not gonna lie, this is a badass museum donation.
🇺🇸 Shonda Rhimes donated the Oval Office set from Scandal, the same one fictional President Fitzgerald Grant called home for seven seasons.
Now it’s part of the Obama Presidential Center Museum
[Warning: Discussion of suicide]
Zanzibar authorities have reportedly concluded their investigation of influencer Ashlee Jenae’s death, according to local outlet The Citizen. Police found that the 31-year-old died by suicide “as a result of mental distress.”
🎬📽️ SHOOT THE PEOPLE
Watermelon Pictures will release the documentary, ‘Shoot The People’ which features photographer, filmmaker and activist @misanharriman Harriman, in UK cinemas this summer.
The film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas from July 10.
➡️https://t.co/sFC2RN5TWV
On 29 May 1927, Charles Lindbergh, the American Aviator, made an historic landing at Croydon Airport in his "Spirit of St. Louis" after completing the first solo transatlantic flight. An enormous crowd of approximately 120,000 people came to witness this aviation milestone.
✈️ Kids workshops at Historic Croydon Airport on Sunday 7 June!
Make your own “Jason” Gipsy Moth plane and learn about Amy Johnson’s famous solo flight to Australia 🌍
🧒 Ages 5+
⏰ 4 sessions across the day
🎟️ Book here: https://t.co/lhBdLwMwWM
Happy International Museum Day!
This year’s theme is “Museums Uniting a Divided World”. It’s an opportunity to highlight how museums bridge cultures across social and geopolitical divides.
Here at Historic Croydon Airport, we are such a bridge to the past.