You’re going to need your sound on to get the most out of this one 😱
Here’s the most heebie-jeebie inducing object we could find in our artefact store at Leeds Discovery Centre.
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻
#collections
Excellent piece by @kenn_taylor @ArtlinkHull on why ideas and imaginstion matter, to everyone, and a new climate of fear in cultural and creative sector. #classisabigdeal#socialmobility
@Rachel_With_AnE @NTSCollections Stands for drying hats maybe? Lots of weird objects at Abbey House @LeedsMuseums turned out to be for pressing/reshaping hats when I asked...
Evaluation: Please demonstrate the impact of this project.
Me: Well it was such a powerf-
Evaluation: Scale of 1-10?
Me: It’s impossible to put a nu-
Evaluation: Please enter an integer.
Me: But value is more tha-
Evaluation: Please enter an integer.
Me: 😑
So flexible sandstone is a real thing. And we’ve only gone and got ourselves a giant blimmin’ piece.
Itacolumite is a bit of a mind blower - it flexes due to voids left by interlocking quartz within it 🤯
#geologyrocks#collections
UTTERLY exhausted but undoubtedly inspired today after first hearing @TinctureOfMuse from @AutisminMuseums speak at Museum of Liverpool, then shamefully struggling to keep awake @LeedsSavage club's meeting, "Interlinked".
@tonybutler1 How to actually eat between sentences and not end up conducting your points with a rapidly-crumbling half-eaten mini quiche #MuseumFinishingSchool
Exactly what we were talking about in #museumHour a while ago - in many (most?) public heritage situations burying the authorial bias by using the 3rd person and/or passive voice is borderline deceptive and creates a false presumption of infallible authority
Dear high school teachers,
Please stop telling students that there are "no circumstances" in which they should write in 1st person.
1) It just isn't true, and
2) I have to spend more time than I would like helping them unlearn that "fact."
Sincerely,
Annoyed college professor