Great to bring Monet from The National Gallery to South Shields! @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
20.01.2026 08:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A person standing behind a lectern and speaking to a group of people. On the screen behind them text reads 'Imagine If...'.
We’ve had a jammed-packed morning of inspiring and engaging speakers at our ‘Imagine If...’. conference for teachers and educators.
Keith Merrin, Director of North East Museums, welcomed everyone to #ImagineIf2025, as we celebrate its ten year anniversary.
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13.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Enjoyed chairing this session at the Labour Party Conference #Lab25 in the Creative UK Pavilion. Some brilliant insight from the panel on the importance of creative learning to the UK economy and the need for urgent curriculum change. @nmdcnews.bsky.social @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
30.09.2025 14:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Nine members of a community-led research project at a museum.
NEWS - North East Museums has been accepted into the latest cohort of the @museumsassociation.org Anti-Racist Museums Programme. www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/news/north-e...
24.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Children playing at Woodhorn Colliery, now a museum and mining heritage site.
NEWS - Woodhorn to receive nearly £1 million in Historic England funding www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/news/woodhor...
@keithmerrin.bsky.social
07.08.2025 07:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see our @northeastmuseums.bsky.social Great North Museum:Hancock shortlisted for the @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social Awards!
23.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honour, on behalf of the judges, to get tonight’s Museums + Heritage Awards (the Oscar’s of the Museum world) Ceremony underway at the Park Lane Hilton! #MandHAwards
15.05.2025 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honour, on behalf of the judges, to get tonight’s Museums + Heritage Awards (the Oscar’s of the Museum world) Ceremony underway at the Park Lane Hilton! #MandHAwards
15.05.2025 19:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2025 Programme – Museums + Heritage Show
I’ll be speaking at the Museums + Heritage Show later today about the future of civic museums alongside a stellar panel. show.museumsandheritage.com/2025-programme/
14.05.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a backdrop! Pleased to speak at today’s launch of Time Odyssey at the British Museum. The project fully funds school visits to museums including travel. @northeastmuseums.bsky.social have been part of the pilot working with over the 2,500 young people thanks to funds from charity Art Explora.
13.05.2025 13:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
👀 cool place to be speaking this morning!
13.05.2025 10:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brilliant evening at The Fire Station seeing Public Record performed by (and telling the stories of) the communities of Sunderland. A great collaboration between @nationaltheatre.org.uk Sunderland Culture and Sunderland Empire and funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. Life affirming!
27.04.2025 08:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
More awards success!
08.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not my usual work attire…
28.03.2025 12:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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26.03.2025 17:50 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It definitely happened! #nufc
17.03.2025 12:58 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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17.03.2025 08:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Primary School Arts Membership scheme
Why become a member?
The membership allows your school and your teachers to benefit from a variety of our practical art workshops and creative learning programmes across the academic year.
Gold and silver membership options available: twamschools.org.uk
12.03.2025 08:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bishop of Newcastle.
Runner.
Broadcaster.
Member UK House of Lords.
Fan of Belted Galloways 🖤🤍🖤🤍
Personal views.
Inspiring wonder in the natural world, from the Tees to the Tweed, since 1829. Visit us at #GosforthNatureReserve or Great North Museum: Hancock.
https://www.nhsn.org.uk/
📧 nhsn@ncl.ac.uk
The Cultural Podcast series is part of an ongoing project which explores different careers across the cultural sectors.
Listen at: https://linktr.ee/culturalpeeps
Blog: https://culturalpeeps.wordpress.com/
BHBG: A project unlocking the past, enjoying the present and planning for the future.
Led by Newcastle University; funded by AHRC's Curiosity Award.
Find out more on our blog: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/ballast-hills/
Twitter escapee (@eseesea). Social change leadership, connect, collaborate @ywccommunity @socialleadersne @theRSAorg fellow. Feminist. Gone not forgotten Sharing Learning Doing, Good Space/Broadacre House [UK]
The North East Culture Partnership was supported by practitioners, local authorities and universities to make a positive ‘Case for Culture’ for more investment and support for the arts and heritage sectors in the North East region. www.case4culture.org.uk
Newcastle's independent library, the Lit & Phil, is home to more than 200,000 books and music items, and has a rolling programme of events and activities.
www.litandphil.org.uk
Marketing & Comms Specialist @ Pallant House
ex V&A, IWM, British Museum, Design Museum, Wallace Collection
Trustee at Collections Trust, Estorick Collection, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social, VocalEyes
Studying art history at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Mess Making as Social Glue
Drag Is Folk💚
www.lladykitt.com
Artist, curator, Gateshead UK.
www.narbiprice.co.uk
Sharing news on research, teaching & engagement activity in the creative arts, humanities & social sciences at Newcastle University. Monitored Mon-Fri (9am-4pm).
https://linktr.ee/NorthernHeartlands
Northern Heartlands is a charity based in County Durham bringing the creativity of artists together with individuals, community groups, schools and partner organisations. 💚
Head of Museum of Liverpool. Exploring regional culture, character and heritage.
The forum for the historic environment sector in England, supported by Historic England. http://www.historicenvironmentforum.org.uk
Personal Account.
Director: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Co-chair Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN).
Board member: Scottish Futures Forum, Scottish Parliament.
Vane operates a gallery space, as well as a flexible workspace for artists to develop new work. Vane is based within the Orbis Community of creatives in Gateshead town centre.
Book lover. Tea drinker. Personal account.
