Where are you taking your @socmusarch.bsky.social tote bag this year?! Mine has made it to Turkey!

Before anything reaches the museum store, excavations take place as part of the planning process. Once the digging is done, the specialists have worked their magic, the archives come to us. Our job? To care for them in perpetuity and make them accessible to everyone.

Booking for The Society for Museum Archaeology 2025 Conference: Celebrating 50 Years of SMA is now OPEN! shorturl.at/ctryq

Society for Museum Archaeology 2025 Conference: Celebrating 50 Years of SMA

Come celebrate 50 years of the Society for Museum Archaeology at our 2025 conference!

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I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.

This mornings dog walk was a frosty dream. I don’t want the cold to end for a while.

This #Medieval stone mould is in the museum collection. I'm trying to work out the inscription. Probable saltire stops and it starting with 'h' is as far as I've got. Can anyone get further with it? The top image is of the mould, the lower a mirror image to make reading the inscription easier. Thanx

The kids are quietly fighting over the front seat.

We’ve got the @restispolitics.bsky.social set! Today’s message is from @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, former political commentator & strategist turned podcaster. His message is continued in the next post: “Thank you to all with Long Covid & their families & doctors and 👇

I’m camping with my daughter in the Gower, Wales. We’ve forgotten some basic stuff but we do have plenty of fairy lights! What else is needed?!

I love this photo... my volunteers taking photos, one of a mammoth tusk, the other Roman coins, and a curator, ie me, propping up the tusk as her muscles burn and willing the photographer to hurry up! #CuratorLife

This milk chocolate Sutton Hoo strap end was a present a year or so ago and goes out of date next month. Do I save it and never eat it? Or eat it? Can’t decide.

Job Alert: Curator of Social History for the Oxfordshire Museums Service? Could it be you? Curator of Social History OCC614187 (Curator of Social History OCC614187 careers.newjob.org.uk/OCC/job/Witn...

Recording finds for the PAS today. This cornucopia of objects and coins is today’s joy. Which would you start with?

I’m going out tonight, but need karaoke inspiration for a person who can’t hold a note but has enthusiasm! Tell me with your suggestions…

I've Covid so whilst in isolation at home, I'm doing some therapeutic photoshopping. Oxfordshire ceramics first...

I'm looking to borrow a replica woolly mammoth like Fluffy below for an exhibition in the summer of 2025. Any ideas who may have one that I can approach?

I’m away for a weekend venture… can you see where (it’s pretty easy!)?

Can anyone recommend a Speech-To-Text-Reporter to attend a meeting in person in Woodstock, Oxfordshire in the first week of October? Having trouble finding someone. Or other similar services to support a person with a hearing impairment in a meeting of 8 people #Disability #Accessibility Thank you.

I’ve not been to Butser before but have an an ace time saying goodbye to my 40s.

Anyone at Butser for the Equinox? Having a mooch about. www.butserancientfarm.co.uk

Hey up there, I've finally made it over here, and already regretting not getting here sooner. How are you all? So what have I missed over here?