Museum of Forward Planning

Closed for much next week.
Going be enjoying watching the bad weather olympics

We are pleased to announce that thanks to recent heavy rain and roof issues.. our new immersive gallery experience opens today.

Wellingtons available at the door.
Please don’t play with the ‘water voles’*
#Museums #Maintenance

*rats

Creative accounts You've got to 'get creative' If you work in culture now You're hoping for that beanstalk You've already sold the cow Those golden eggs are wooden There's no cash under the bed There's the sound of constant sobbing And the finance team have fled. You've got to 'get creative' It's the soft power thing to do. But the council can't afford that There's no wealth* in what you do Music, Arts, and Culture It's not like people care Until they look up and realise That it's just no longer there.

You've got to 'get creative' Who wants old stuff anyway? Who cares about well-being? Who would want to see a play? It's not as if your industry Drives tourism and spend? Let's get ahead and trash it now. Leave nothing to defend. *there clearly is but its not valued in an appropriate and comparative way by successive decision makers, is all.

Inspired by the article in the Guardian today.
#BadPoems #Museums

One of more than a million reasons why we won’t be offering him the Head of Security role

If the Chair of the Bored approaches you about joining his new Super Board please be aware that we do not endorse this governance model or the £1 million patronage fee associated

Probably not adopting Donald Trump’s ‘Windmill Theory of Economics’

If you’re not well enough to go on the TV and be interviewed in the morning, you’re not well enough to release a statement and play with your latest Tory defector that same day.

That’s what our Mum used to say. #Farage

Good point, we’ve knocked that old painting out so we can use the expensive gilded frame too

We can’t ‘like’ this even if we agree with the analysis

See also ‘oh, you’re in Maureen’s old office’ - well I guess, but it’s actually my office now..
.. but that will not be the case until you leave

We don’t make the rules

Nigel Farage - an evil version of that trustee that sends in the annoying emails but never makes it to a meeting.

Times headline. ‘Bank of England must plan for financial crisis sparked by aliens’ A former analyst at the central bank has urged governor Andrew Bailey to put contingencies in place to prevent collapse if alien life is confirmed

It’s one thing after another at the minute.

We need to review the reserves policy and risk register in light of the alien threat.

AND the audience segmentation model and Membership types.

#Museums

Come and visit. We aren’t real so it’s relatively safe

Disneyfication is what it is.
Although.. how many Disney Castles / Olaf’s etc…

Last time our Chair of the Bored tried to annex another museum we forced them to stand down by pushing up the price of patronage by 25%

Just saying

Fair. How many Nelson’s Columns laid end to end?

And what size is this in comparison to Wales? We need to know.

It’s revolutionary apparently

Wondering if we might be annexed soon - keeping our heads down in the meantime

Decided that we can’t have Fiona looking after the major incident plan after seeing her on #Traitors

Christmas trees (four) all dumped on the pavement on a London street

Always important to keep an eye on the competition.
There’s a lot of these lNarnia immersive pavement pop-ups around.

But the retail and catering offers are generally poor.

We had thought the programme to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary would be a little more.. well dull would do to be honest. Just dull.

So the Secret Traitor is like when our ex Chair of the Trustees became lifetime president of the #Museum isn’t it?

#Traitors

Resenting that these films have appropriated Smurf culture, but wish you luck

If you want to know if the #Museum is open today do please post a question about that on Facebook rather than checking our website*

*we know our key demographic

The Librarian from Unseen University holding up a sprig of mistletoe and grinning broadly. As drawn by Paul Kidby.

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Museum of forward planning wooden Christmas tree decoration on a tree

Last chance to purchase our Christmas ranges tomorrow!*

* before we put it all back in the store until next August.

#Christmas #Museums

We’ve always been big Paddington fans.. but taking Chris Rea just before Christmas? Not a good look bear.

#RIPChrisRea

Share your mood for the weekend

Had this on in the staff room today. One of the best adaptations of the book.