Clara Morgan
@curatorclara.bsky.social
Social History curator at Sheffield Museums. Posting about things I like in Sheffield's Social History collections 🤓
Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about Autumn 🍂 William Ibbitt captured the moment the trees began to change colour, with orange foliage shining out against the fading green leaves. @artukdotorg.bsky.social 🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield 👨🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869) 📸Sheffield Museums
Behind every object in Weston Park Museum is a life lived and a story shared, just like Orville Fuller’s! 🧵
Tour of #Sheffield 's Lake District anyone? Beautiful on a day like today ☀️ From the collections at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
🎉Hooray for 150 years of Weston Park Museum!🎉 Today, we announced a host of family activities, talks and tours, exhibitions and displays to mark 150 years of life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled museum experiences in Sheffield 👏👏👏 Find out more here: www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/wes...
In honour of #BBCspringwatch being filmed up the road at Longshaw, here's some natured-themed children's magazines from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (last one probably frowned on)
In honour of #BBCspringwatch being filmed up the road at Longshaw, here's some natured-themed children's magazines from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (last one probably frowned on)
The Pillbox at Hecla Works was built during World War Two to protect the munitions work being carried out on this site. It can be found between Five Weirs Walk and the bottom of Attercliffe Cemetery #Sheffield
Happy Spring Equinox/ astronomical spring! Here’s a beautiful clockwork model of the Earth, Sun and Moon. It was made around 1888 in Sheffield by Benjamin Gorrill, who worked as a saw-piercer and silversmith. From the Social History collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
Reflecting today on the #Sheffield Flood of 11-12th March 1864, which caused such devastation and loss. Prayer book salvaged after the flood, on display in Weston Park Museum @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (1/3)
Putting away some #Sheffield views that were on display in our Rivers exhibition- here's the Plan of Sheffield from an Actual Survey by Ralph Gosling, 1736. Lots of recognisable places, streets, path of the river Sheaf, gardens and orchards... From the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
Celebrating LBGTQ+ History Month for #OnlineArtExchange 🏳️🌈 #LGBTplusHM25 🖼Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) 👨🎨Thomas Binney Gibbs (1870–1947) 📸 Sheffield Museums 🙏Edward Carpenter - Sheffield-based pioneer of LGBTQ rights, women’s rights and environmentalism; writer, campaigner, radical sandal-wearer.
What a day: our first post on Bluesky and a new exhibition! 🚀 🚨These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture is now open at the Millennium Gallery! 💛 See rarely seen sculptures by John Hoyland alongside a spectacular assembly of contemporary sculpture ✨
Happy Valentines Day! This pendant was worn with love by Ruth Shipman, with photos of her husband Mark, and son Mark junior. Dates to early 1900s. From the collections at Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
Sometimes I take photos of plastic bags for a living and I love it 🤓 From the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
Here is your January to do list from a 1777 almanac... I'll be focusing on no-blood letting and eating often 😅 From the collections at Sheffield Museums
Suitably #snow ready #Sheffield lady around 100 years ago, with possibly less ready dog... Photograph from the collections at Sheffield Museums 🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️
Can confirm that the Victoria Plum perfumed eraser still smells the same after 30 years 😀 From the Social History collections at Sheffield Museums
In shock that the #museum I have dedicated most of my working life to is threatened with closure. I urge #Leeds people to respond to the upcoming public consultation and fight to preserve such a loved and important site. Local government funding needs fixing urgently.
Yorkshire Evening Post@yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk · 2y agoClosure of Abbey House Museum and 'pay as you feel' charges proposed by Leeds City Council for 2025/2026 budget amid funding black hole
To start me off here! 🤓 This is for anyone who rediscovered their hot water bottle recently - no, not a rock-hard loaf of bread, but a foot warming brick! Probably about 120-150 years old, from one of the last back-to-back houses in Walkley, Sheffield. From the collections at Sheffield Museums
