Barnsley Museums
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We are Barnsley Museums. Sharing stories from our collections and our five free to visit venues across Barnsley; Cannon Hall Museum, The Cooper Gallery, Experience Barnsley Museum, Worsbrough Mill & Elsecar Heritage Centre www.barnsley-museums.com
You learn something new every day - whether you like it or not 🤭
Barnsley Museums@barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 7h agoToday is National Underwear Day, no really it is! it's all the excuse we need to re-share our 1970s underpants which were bought at Marks and Spencer's in Barnsley #NationalUnderwearDay
Today is National Underwear Day, no really it is! it's all the excuse we need to re-share our 1970s underpants which were bought at Marks and Spencer's in Barnsley #NationalUnderwearDay
Winner of the best post on Bluesky this year goes to @bucksarchives.bsky.social 👏👏 👏
Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
Today is #InternationalOwlDay 🦉 Ceramic vase by Sally Tuffin for Moorcroft Sally Tuffin is a fashion designer and ceramicist. In 1986 Moorcroft, a UK art pottery, was rescued by Maureen and Hugh Edwards together with Tuffin and her husband Richard Dennis, a former art dealer.
It sounds like MySpace is planning a relaunch. Time to start picking our profile song. Who should we pick for our top 8 friends? www.al.com/life/2026/08...
Popular social media platform’s owners confirm a relaunch: ‘We’re just waiting for the right time’
No timeline has been set.
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'Not for the faint hearted' Never has a caption been more fitting for a photograph! "A Barnsley chop is a thick, double-sided lamb loin chop cut from the animal's saddle, featuring meat from both sides of the spine with a central bone and tender fillet."
Jigsaws!😀
Barnsley Museums@barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 3d ago#PuzzleMonday Italianate Landscape with Peasants Fording a Brook by Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #PuzzleMonday #MuseumMonday
#PuzzleMonday Italianate Landscape with Peasants Fording a Brook by Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #PuzzleMonday #MuseumMonday
Today is National Doll Day 😍 It's also the final day of the Festival of Archaeology so we're combining the two with a Frozen Charlotte doll which was found in Gawber #NationalDollDay #FestivalOfArchaeology
Well this is a bit awkward, it's #YorkshireDay but our Digital Curator is currently on his way to Manchester. He's making amends for leaving God's Own County by sharing some Yorkshire goodness in the form of Barnsley's Top Trumps along the way
Looking forward to our Yorkshire Day celebrations at Darfield Museum today. We’re open from 10.00-14.00 and the hurling of Yorkshire Puddings into a flat cap will take place at 11.00am! See you all there!
This is behind a paywall, so we're just going to assume that Barnsley Museums takes up five places on this list ☺️ The 10 greatest museums in Britain www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
The 10 greatest museums in Britain
With the London Museum set to relaunch in Smithfield later this year, we take a look at the British museums everyone should visit
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What is the most common shape in the world? Do animals think like us? People are taking the question "write your thoughts here" quite literal...
Happy Yorkshire Day Eve! (What do you mean that's not a thing?!)
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is landscape for British Landscapes: A Sense of Place at Pallant House – visit until November 2026 🌿 As it's #YorkshireDay on Saturday we're staying close to home with our choice this week: View of Cannon Hall Park by Tom Hold from Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum
If there's one thing we've all learnt about social media this week it's how the Instagram collaboration feature works. We're on Insta so feel free to tag us in non controversial posts. We're too busy working on Yorkshire Day and National Doll Day content to have time to appear on Newsnight.
Some more #FestivalOfArchaeology bling as Prof Joann Fletcher shares her favourite objects from our Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt exhibition. “Today’s object are in fact two, a superb pair of earrings made of gold and set with six deep red garnets on loan from the British Museum..."
#FestivalOfArchaeology Today’s object is a dinner invitation written on papyrus paper in Greek, the language Cleopatra spoke - and wrote - on a daily basis, along with at least 8 other languages.
Sadly we don't have any artwork depicting someone taking their houseplant for a walk so instead for #NorfolkDay 'Scoulton Church, Norfolk' by John Sell Cotman
Save Redland Library@saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · last wk.1/ Hashtags to follow TODAY ( July 27th 2026 ) #NorfolkDay #BagpipeAppreciationDay #TakeYourHouseplantForAWalkDay #CrossAtlanticCommunicationDay (USA) 1 of 5 #July27Hashtags
#PuzzleMonday Exterior of an Inn: Peasants Drinking by David Teniers II 🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩 🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws #art #bluesky #artist #game #puzzle #PuzzleMonday
@imcmillan.bsky.social It's happened again Ian....Over on Facebook we shared audio of you talking about Maurice and Fred. Some people think you're either Sean Bean or Mike Harding... soundcloud.com/barnsleymuse...
#FestivalOfArchaeology A bronze situla (basically a glorified bucket!) Made between c.600-300 BC, it was found at Sakkara by the The Egypt Exploration Society and originally held liquid offerings for the gods shown across its surface, from the sun god Ra to Nefertem, young god of the lotus.
#FestivalOfArchaeology Amulet of an ibis suspended on a length of blue beads, found at Matmar by the British Museum 1929-1931 and presented to Bolton Library and Museum Services Currently on display in the Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt exhibition. Read more 👇
#FestivalOfArchaology Cosmetic spoon carved from black haematite sometime around 1450 BC. It takes the form of a human arm, ending in a hand, with even a bracelet shown around the wrist. It’s thought that the ‘hand’ was used to mix the various mineral pigments
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘nature and animals’ for An A-Z of Beatrix Potter at The Armitt 🐇 'A day in the Country' by Louis Wain from Victoria and Albert Museum #Art #BlueskyArt #CatsOfBluesky @artukdotorg.bsky.social
Adding new meaning to 'Stick a fork in me, I'm done"
Ian McMillan@imcmillan.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy chip days
