Pat Bourne (he/him)

Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025 Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2025

Happy Creativity and Wellbeing Week !
We have 10 events over 4 days starting tomorrow with poetry in the Abbey and Mindfulness in the Museum, and culminating Friday with a choir in Kirkstall Abbey !
Booking advisable on some things esp. the walk

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQd3mcd/crea...

Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

Thank you 😊

Congrats to everyone involved in this - @leedsmuseums.bsky.social got highly commended last night in the category of temporary exhib under £80k for Living With Death. So proud of everyone. Hope a fab night was had by all.

@leedsmuseums.bsky.social are nominated in the category of best exhibition under £80k for 'Living With Death' (Leeds City Museum). A huge recognition of the emotional investment by staff, partners & individuals who shared so much. Congrats to all the shortlistees, some truly inspiring projects!

Trust seeks to hand Scarborough’s museums back to council - Museums Association Charity says bringing service back into local authority is ‘best guarantee for the future’

News | Trust seeks to hand Scarborough’s museums back to council – charity says bringing service back into local authority is ‘best guarantee for the future’

Installation view of The Traumatic Surreal at Henry Moore Institute, until 16 March 2025, showing Ursula, C'est moi / Das bin ich / That's me 1966, courtesy Museum Ludwig and Renate Bertlmann, Blinder Engel / Blind Angel 1987 © Renate Bertlmann / Bildrecht Vienna / DACS 2024. Photo: John McKenzie

We're hiring a Full Time Assistant Curator
£26,500-£28,500 + 12.5% pension contribution + other benefits
Deadline: 17/03/25

Could you could support us to deliver a varied programme of historic and contemporary exhibitions, displays and publications?

henry-moore.org/jobs/#assist...

#artsjobs

War crimes | The destruction of Ukraine's cultural heritage - Museums Association Three years since the full-scale Russian invasion began, the conflict has raised questions about the protection of culture in an age of modern warfare

Analysis | The destruction of Ukraine’s cultural heritage 📝

Three years since the full-scale Russian invasion began, the conflict has raised questions about the protection of culture in an age of modern warfare.

Join the Friends making a difference in Kirkstall Abbey Park - West Leeds Dispatch By John Baron Green-fingered volunteers are helping to improve the infrastructure and ecological diversity of Kirkstall Abbey Park. The Friends of Kirkstall Abbey Park have already made a real differe...

The Friends of Kirkstall Abbey Park have already improved the parkland around the historic Abbey and museum by planting trees and wildflower meadows. Fancy joining them?
westleedsdispatch.com/join-the-fri...

New Display alert- Abbey House Museum is hosting a display curated by Horsforth Museum which explores the contributions by the people of Horsforth to the 1939-45 war effort. Installed today, so come check it out from tomorrow.

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Jealous...

Council urged to reconsider 'misguided' closure of Abbey House Museum - West Leeds Dispatch A voluntary group supporting Leeds’ museums and heritage has called on Leeds City Council to reconsider ‘misguided’ proposals to close Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall. Members of the Friends of […]

Deputation urges council to reconsider 'misguided' plans to close Kirkstall's Abbey House Museum...
westleedsdispatch.com/council-urge...

Hidden Bradford - Rediscovering Bradford's Somali Village - BBC Sounds Dr. Fozia Bora delves into the captivating story of Bradford's 1904 Somali Village

In 1904, the #Bradford Exhibition in Lister Park (coinciding with the opening of Cartwright Hall) featured a Somali village.

In this BBC programme, Dr Fozia Bora talks about the village and villagers, explaining how it was both exploitative and a means of agency.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today the deinstall of #LivingWithDeath began at LeedsCityMuseum (in a remarkably snow free city centre!) It was a privilege to have worked with so many collaborators. A huge thanks to those who gave time and expertise, and shared personal stories and items. Sad to see it go.

Museum display recreating a tobacconist and confectioners shop at Abbey House Museum, Leeds. Large tin of Thorne's Extra Super Cream Toffee plus glass jars of boiled sweets.

Thanks again to @inkylinkyliz.bsky.social for creating such delicious-looking fake sweets for last year's Abbey House #Museum exhibition. Glad to be able to reuse them in the Victorian streets. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social New exhibition opens 25 January so watch this space.

Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network (16 January 2025) Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network (YAMN) is a group of museum professionals who want to make spaces, places and programmes more inclusive and accessible. We meet three or four times a year to explo...

If you're interested in inclusive heritage practice, then come along to the next Yorkshire Accessible Network meet up on Thurs 16 Jan 2025, 9:30-11. We have case studies from the three Yorkshire-based shortlisted museums for Kids in Museums Best Accessible Museum.

Booking: forms.gle/ammmJeWaBPMq...

Shelves of colourful Burmantofts ceramics.

Stunning Burmantofts ceramics on display at Abbey House Museum, currently at risk of closure. The consultation is still open - have your say here: surveys.leeds.gov.uk/s/UZ1NOE/

Received Northerners as a Christmas present, and looking forward to getting stuck into it!

My, just looked that up. Final volume out ?

Totally this. Any analysis of museum performance that misses wellbeing benefits and savings to providers of other services like the NHS due to cutting social isolation is deeply flawed. Museum closures ARE a public health risk.

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

Recent study shows "any cuts to arts funding or provision have to be considered a public health risk with individual and societal economic ramifications".

📰 'Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds' - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

A Tom Harper December Tale For today, a little sidestep from Annabelle to her husband Tom. He finally found the woman at half-past five on a cold December evening. She was sitting on the pavement, knees clasped against her c…

It's nippy outside, so why not stay in, have a cup of tea and spend five minutes with Tom Harper in a Victorian December tale?
chrisnickson.co.uk/2024/12/19/a...

A privilege to get a 1st glimpse at the On The Pitch, Off The Pitch exhibition today with the community team at Leeds City Museum. Well done to colleagues Lizzie, Sam and
Catherine for a superb job in celebrating underrepresented sporting groups in Leeds. Go see it! @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

Recipe for mince pies with calf's feet from "English Housewifery Exemplified" by Elizabeth Moxon of Leeds 1758. Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries.

Recipe for mince pies with tripe from "English Housewifery Exemplified" by Elizabeth Moxon of Leeds 1758. Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries.

Title page of "English Housewifery Exemplified" by Elizabeth Moxon of Leeds 1758. Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries.

Layout for a Grand table in Winter from "English Housewifery Exemplified" by Elizabeth Moxon of Leeds 1758. Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries.

Here are some offally good #mincepie recipes from 1758 courtesy of Elizabeth Moxon of #Leeds. Try calf's foot or tripe. Merry #Christmas!
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social @tripeuk.bsky.social @shcg.bsky.social

Abbey House Museum Consultation Abbey House Museum Consultation

As promised here is the link to the consultation on the future of @leedsmuseums.bsky.social Abbey House #Museum which is threatened with closure to save £160,000. Please do respond if you can:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...

Black and white photograph of children at a Christmas party with two people in costume dressed as Alfie Apple and Bertie Banana. Taken at Price's tailors, Leeds, 1946. Collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries. Alfie Apple was a daily cartoon in the Leeds Mercury (later in the Yorkshire Post) written by "Aunty Joan" and illustrated by Thack from the 1930s to 1950s

Off to give a #Christmas talk in #Leeds this morning so time to share my favourite photo of a 1946 children's Xmas party gatecrashed by monster fruit!

This is the season for pantomime. Productions tend to run for a very limited season but Francis Laidler, the "King of Pantomime's" 1944 production of Humpty Dumpty at Leeds Theatre Royal ran for a record breaking twenty-two weeks! The longest pantomime run for a century. Image: Leeds Libraries

Now almost unrecognisable from the Philosophical Hall on the left to Beckett's Bank and the Royal Insurance Building on the right and that iconic spire of St Ann's Cathedral. It's always lovely to see this painting. Did anyone else capture moonlit scenes as well as him?

Our youth panel at #LeedsIndustrialMuseum made this beautiful panel on our flood wall. Their nature photography now a permanent part of our site.

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