UK Museum folk
People working in and around museums, heritage, and culture in the UK
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@bogarty.bsky.social
@herschelmuseum.bsky.social
The Herschel Museum of Astronomy is the home of William and Caroline Herschel, distinguished astronomers and musicians. Patron: Sir Brian May 🔭🎸 https://herschelmuseum.org.uk/
@abbiemackinnon.bsky.social
🚀 Space Curator, Science Museum 🇺🇸 American ex-pat 🚲 Love a bike ride 👦🏻🧑🏻🦰 Mom to 2 boys
@helenlight.bsky.social
Work at an open air museum. Enjoy watersports and the outdoors 🦆. Took part in CoppaTrek with Gi 2023. Love dogs 🐕 cheese 🧀 and roast potatoes. #museum #heritage #sup #coppatrek
@samisatwork.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London. Interested in all things class, culture, education, equality, history, museums
@chrissiedownton.bsky.social
Freelance Museum Collection Researcher. PhD student in Classical Art (Greek). Conservation, Museums, Classics, Dinosaurs and Dogs (all the good things in life). Cornwall.
@terridendy.bsky.social
Head of Collections Standards and Care @ National Army Museum, previously opinionated blogger @ Ministry of Curiosity. Known for looking angry at objects - but really obsessed with them Also over here: https://www.instagram.com/terri.dendy
@museumofbc.bsky.social
Transnational network confronting British colonialism UK, Kenya, and beyond. http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/support
@lucyje.bsky.social
Museum Collections Management Professional | Prehistoric archaeology nerd | She/her 🇪🇺 Views mine
@sciencemuseum.org.uk
Welcome to the home of human ingenuity. We curate a world-renowned collection & organise exhibitions and events for over 3 million visitors a year. Read our community guidelines: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/smg-social-media-community-guidelines
@jane-henderson.bsky.social
Museums, Conservation Wales. I want to help share, save and enjoy stuff from the past.
@carlnewbould.bsky.social
#museums and #SEND. Passionate about my job. Manage #CareersForAll at Leeds Museums and Galleries. Trustee for Interplay Theatre, chair access group at Discover Creative Careers
@marchlands.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, insomniac wanderer 🏕️ Museums, magic and mayhem ✨ (She/her) #amquerying Views and malapropisms all mine. www.marchlands.co.uk
@alicemarples.bsky.social
Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
@littlebrain.bsky.social
furnishing her life with cats, babies, porcelain and paper / 9-5: somehow running two museums / views own blah blah blah
@colmuseums.bsky.social
We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
@arthropoda-curator.bsky.social
Curator of Fossil Arthropods and Graptolites at the Natural History Museum, London 🦂 http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=hQDGCfYAAAAJ&hl=en
@registrarinheels.bsky.social
Museum Registrar currently at the National Trust. Always in a pair of heels 👠 All opinions my own.
@thehistoryboy.bsky.social
📸/museums/🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks. Bristol, UK
@jonathanmuseum.bsky.social
A curator with the National Trust in Yorkshire + the North East. Photography, Books, History, Art + Beer. Trustee at https://bsky.app/profile/wwwheritagetrust.bsky.social + part of Photo Scarborough https://bsky.app/profile/photoscarborough.bsky.social
@theeghammuseum.bsky.social
Follow to stay up to date with your local museum! Discover centuries of history and culture across Egham and the surrounding area…
@durrantjenny.bsky.social
Museums, Collections, Ethics Consultant, Writer, Researcher, Practitioner Freelance and Jane Austen's House Own views (which may also be about cats, church, or cake!) www.jennydurrant.co.uk
@joevaughan.net
I'm the social media person™️ at The Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading). Posted hog on main. Aspirational comedian. Toaster. (he/him)
@rachelcockett.bsky.social
Citizen of The Shire Art | Culture | Heritage | Museums | Nature Weird Seeker | Wild Gardener 🖖🤘 Culture & Heritage Consultant | Business Planning | Grant Fundraising | Administration www.rachelcockett.co.uk 🎨🏛🎭🌳 www.instagram.com/rachelcockett
@magnifyzoology.bsky.social
26, She/Her - Data Officer (Ceramics) - Creator of #Museum30 - Natural History Nerd - 🏴 - Neurodivergent (opinions my own)
@tillyblyth.bsky.social
Director Weald and Downland Living Museum, Trustee @bletchleypark and Blue Plaques Panel for @englishheritage ex @sciencemuseum
@curatorkitty.bsky.social
Curator of Leeds History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Loves material culture, the great outdoors and singing.
@ashwhiffin.bsky.social
🪲 Entomologist, bonkers about beetles 🏛 Museum Curator 🏴 Usually found turning over logs/stones or poking in dead stuff. (she/her) 🔗 https://linktr.ee/Ash_Whiffin
@morganw-b.bsky.social
Loans @ British Library, likes to learn stuff about things, art, books, pro-dogs, child is 8, brain is soup (views my own, this is not a prof account) she/her
@emilyautism.bsky.social
UK Based Museum Access Consultant, Public Speaker, Autism Trainer, Rep for GEM Yorkshire and Humberside, Steering Group for Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network, Actually Autistic, Passionate about accessibility. She/Her
@soupdragon2000.bsky.social
#Museum, #Arts, #culture and #London enthusiast. Views my own. Formerly at lots of big culture places but that doesn't define me. Freelance designer for museums, theatres and other cultural orgs. Find me at catlips.co.uk bsky.app/profile/catlips.co.uk
@naomigarnett.bsky.social
Museum professional. Interested in social history, art, music, crafts and cocktails. Currently re-discovering the Lake District and returning to work after maternity leave.
@laurasouthall.bsky.social
Attempting to channel Spice Girls, Beyoncé & Mary Poppins at all times. Head of Learning, Trustee, Cat Slave. Views own ✌🏼
@atinybitwaring.bsky.social
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum. Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL. Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine. Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear. Own views.
@jennyrlee.bsky.social
Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication. Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life. AuDHD. Views my own.
@theoborgvinweiss.bsky.social
Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art @ Government Art Collection
@that-museum-girl.bsky.social
Communications Officer at National Galleries Scotland • Freelance Writer • Arts & Culture Content Creator • Dog Mum • Instagram @thatmuseumgirl_ •TikTok @thatmuseumgirl 📧 hello.thatmuseumgirl@gmail.com Views my own🙋🏼♀️ She/Her
@keithmerrin.bsky.social
Director - North East Museums. Trustee - Virgin Money Foundation. Blooloop50 Museum Influencer 2024. Museums, arts, music, heritage, football and stuff. Views and opinions all my own.
@safermuseums.bsky.social
A network of UK museum professionals campaigning to end domestic abuse, and exploring how to make our spaces safer for our visitors and workforce.
@mofp2021.bsky.social
The museum of forward planning. A vision you couldn’t see, for a future you couldn’t believe. Doing more, with less, more often. Home of the #LookAfterYourself well-being campaign. Not an actual museum CLOSED - but our book is on Amazon #Legacy
@hannah-museums.bsky.social
📍Northern Lass | Community Curator. 💻 www.culturalcheerleader.com 📸 www.instagram.com/hannah.museums
@drbeldavis.bsky.social
Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press. 🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
@nadwgab.bsky.social
Geologist | Mineralogy Curator @ the Natural History Museum, London | Creator of #365Minerals | Views are my own | She/Her Posts about: #minerals #museums #geology #fossils #science #nature Geology memes: #GeologistProblems 🐘 mas.to/@NadWGab
@boyleg.bsky.social
Museum Archaeology & Heritage Consultant (former Bristol Museum Senior Curator) Current Chair of CBA Trustees, Pucklechurch PC, Avon Local Councils Assn., & Bristol & Glos Archaeology Society. Treasure Valuation Committee member, Granny & Bristol Bears fan
@flo-sym.bsky.social
Museum person, culture, heritage, data. Director of Audiences & Brand at Royal Armouries Museum (not on here just yet).
@rosiesbarker.bsky.social
Head of Curatorial and Participation, Birmingham Museums Trust, overseeing curatorial, exhibitions, volunteering and participation teams
@lindsey.franklygreenwebb.com
Strategist and researcher for digital in museums, galleries and historic sites. Founder of Frankly, Green + Webb and Trustee at Sheffield Museums. Sometimes cats, gardens and bread.
@maxwellmuseums.bsky.social
🟦 🚨 news + views from museums, galleries, art, exhibitions | creator of maxwell museums newsletter 📩 | + 🟨 PR at the Design Museum (own views) 🔗 https://maxwellmuseums.substack.com/
@queerhcn.org
Sharing expertise, skills and best practice on LGBTQ+ heritage 🌈 • UK-wide subject specialist network • Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England Contact: qhcncomms@gmail.com Website: queerhcn.org Newsletter: mailchi.mp/46de0e53f704/qhcn
@curatorian.bsky.social
Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
@nickhewitt4.bsky.social
#naval #historian #Orkney Culture Team Lead @OrkneyCouncil. Author: Firing on Fortress Europe, Coastal Convoys, Kaiser’s Pirates. New book #Normandy: The Sailors’ Story with Yale Books. On TV a bit. Views all mine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
@bionicbeverley.bsky.social
Heritage Trust Network Programme Manager/bionic woman/Stacey Dooley Fresh Starts Podcast interviewee/artist/Team GB Junior Roller Derby founder/disability inclusion advocate. Into regeneration of communities through the re-use of old buildings
@helenhartstein.bsky.social
Co-leader at RAMM museum, Exeter and Chair of Refugee Support Devon. I love museums, archaeology, moors, art, books, crochet, weaving, heritage, walking, Devon, Yorkshire, Cordoba. Views are my own. She/her.
@teakayb.mathsy.space
UK-based freelance Museum Learning Consultant ➕ Maths communication & teaching 🏛️ Museum Learning & education 🌐 TeaKayB.mathsy.space 🕸️ @TeaKayB.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy 🛜 Check my starter packs & feeds! #MathsInMuseums #MuseumEd #MathsJam
@clairemcdde.bsky.social
Heritage, social justice, music, culture, and, increasingly, gardens and cute animals. Heritage Lead for Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/
@mideastineurope.bsky.social
Global+Colonial Historian btw London/Paris/Berlin & the Mid East. Writes on Photography, Memory, Heritage, Museums of 'Lost Objects' & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://100histories100worlds.org/mirjam-brusius
@100histories.bsky.social
The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project. 1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds. https://100histories100worlds.org/
@lmckeizer.bsky.social
Senior Curator at Edinburgh Napier University | Passionate about archives, libraries, and museums in any shape or form | she/her | views own
@sensationalmuseum.bsky.social
Using what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone. Find out more: https://sensationalmuseum.org/
@museumsandheritage.com
Organisers of sector events, Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, and publishers of Museums + Heritage Advisor. Known simply as M+H, we are at the centre of connecting the world of museums, galleries and heritage attractions https://museumsandheritage.com
@rjimellor.bsky.social
Curator, Lecturer, Advocate. Art of the Body, classics, & celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories in GLAM.
@tarapanesar.bsky.social
PhD Heritage Studies @uniofleicester | Assistant Curator @sciencemuseum | Working at the intersections of heritage, ecology and museums.
@mahoneye.bsky.social
Assistant Curator for the Science Museum Group and Roller Derby enthusiast (Views are mine)
@joshlukedavis.com
Science writer, editor and author @ the Natural History Museum, London | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🏛🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
@sambrady.bsky.social
Collections Engagement Officer for the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. PhD in the history of sport wheelchair technology @ Uni of Glasgow Check out the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub SSF nerd / ✡️ & proud. www.samuelbrady.wordpress.com
@lilcrowther.bsky.social
Historian, curator, DPhil student, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama. Museums, craft, design, architecture, making. More at www.lilycrowther.net
@culturekaty.bsky.social
Museums and culture person. Big library worker. PhDing at Manchester Uni: participatory programmes, emotions, care ethics, and histories of gender-based violence. IG: @culturekaty
@rebeccam-b.bsky.social
Here to connect, personally & professionally. Creative writer📚|Neuro🌶|Bi 🏳️🌈 Used to enjoy politics|European🇪🇺 Heritage freelancer|Cofounder of @SaferMuseums|Survivor of coercive control. Now working with writers. Usually watching SVU, Suits or Dr Who.
@lfcrossley.bsky.social
Arts & heritage consultant. Creator of happy workplace cultures. Coach. Indie disco-er & lover of sad bangers. Football fan. Dog enthusiast. Bright clothes & hoop earrings please. she/her 🌈❤️
@katiedflanagan.bsky.social
Group Head of Archives and Libraries at Science Museum Group. Mum, Aunt, Christian, knitter, gardener
@richdwragg.bsky.social
Work in a cathedral to nature. Archives, libraries, natural history, medieval medical manuscripts and morris dancing. Personal account, all views my own.
@curatorrachel.bsky.social
Senior #Curator, #NationalTrust | Decorative art, contemporary craft and long C18th material culture | #Ceramics specialist | Researching amateur making and women artists | Northerner | she/her
@drolibetts.bsky.social
National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
@rooneyvision.bsky.social
Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton, June 2025) available to pre-order NOW https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
@tmphopkins1.bsky.social
Curator of Aircraft and Exhibits, Royal Air Force Museum. Also likes classics, ancient and medieval history, books, cheese, and making heritage careers more inclusive. Views my Own.
@reluctantgeorge.bsky.social
Museum and music geek. Of Cumbria, in Manchester. Lead Collections and Exhibitions at Manchester Museum, Trustee at Morecambe Bay Partnership and Museums Association. All views expressed here are mine alone.
@mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
@margaretmaitland.bsky.social
Egyptologist by training. Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Researching inequality in ancient Egypt and histories of excavation/collecting/museums. She/her. https://linktr.ee/eloquentpeasant
@magmidd.bsky.social
They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences. Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums margaretmiddleton.com
@emilycbrown.bsky.social
Assistant Curator of Earth Systems at National Museums Scotland. Secretary and Trustee, Scottish Geology Trust. Gemmologist. Rock person. She/Her. All views are my own.
@hugowhymark.bsky.social
Passion for prehistory! Flint and stone tools | 3D modelling | monuments | flintknapping | all things Orkney. Senior Curator of Prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
@drbecjones.bsky.social
Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
@archaeonado.bsky.social
Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
@stervander.com
Singing evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, insulaphile. PhD. Senior Curator of #Birds @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social, Scientific Associate @ Natural History Museum London, Assoc Editor Ibis & Ornis Svecica. He/him. (Views obvs my own) [ex-X-@nesospiza]
@engineernic.bsky.social
Engineer turned museum person. Conservation, energy efficiency & decarbonisation at SS Great Britain. STEM stuff. Childless plant lady. Bristol 🇬🇧
@hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social
Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views. Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI) Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate) Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
@animalarchaeology.com
Zooarchaeologist. 🏺 Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜 Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪 Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK. She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️ https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
@arfarfarf.bsky.social
Freelancer & Activity Session Leader @Museum on The Mound General Museum Nerd, Education Enthusiast, Mother of Hounds, Burlesquer, Lover of Glitter
@sophievohra.bsky.social
PD Research Associate at Uni of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies on The Sensational Museum AHRC-funded project | Public historian, historian of memory/identity, railway historian & museum professional | Intersectional feminist | MHFAider
@lsutherland.bsky.social
📍Lives in The North. 💼 Head of Engagement, North @ The National Lottery Heritage Fund. ❤️Likes Bowie, Gin, Museums, Heritage, Culture, Nail Polish & PokemonGO. Unapologetically Gen X. 👉Follows/reposts not endorsements. 📝Views & skeets very much mine.
@historyjt.bsky.social
Passionate about heritage and what it can mean for people & places. Head of Masterplan, National Coal Mining Museum for England. 🛠️ Director (voluntary, alongside amazing local history mates) of Lichfield Discovered CIC. 🏛️
@luciewhitmore.bsky.social
Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
@luciejones83.bsky.social
Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book on British settlement houses 1880-1920. Looks at home, & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she.
@cypriotartleeds.bsky.social
Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. ECR Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London and Associate Lecturer in Classics at the Open University.
@museumsmith.bsky.social
Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, strolling player, cishet 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him. #FreeGaza #SlavaUkraini #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BLM
@cladle.bsky.social
Heritage, Culture & Communities Consultant: NLHF Mentor; supporting and developing NLHF museum & community heritage projects, audience development research and also Chair of Queen Edith’s Community Forum, Cambridge (she/her) www.claireadler.co.uk
@carmineclaire.bsky.social
sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹trustee at Vagina Museum 🗡️ community engagement at Museum of London 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her