Sheffield Museums

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

We’re sharing one of visitor favourites for #OnlineArtExchange this week, the impressive Basilica of San Marco!

🖼️Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice
👨‍🎨John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
📸Sheffield Museums

There’s a Victorian theme for #OnlineArtExchange today. We’re sharing a slightly different view of a Victorian school than expected; the children playing while their teacher is away!

🖼️When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play
👨‍🎨Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821–1901)
📸Sheffield Museums

The theme for #OnlineArtExchange is ceramics this week, so we’re sharing a cuppa with these dainty tea cups ☕ @artukdotorg.bsky.social

🖼️Still Life with Tea Cups
👨‍🎨Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1629/1630–1700)
📸Sheffield Museums

The theme for this week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is Time, so we’ve chosen this study depicting the ripening of a cherry

🖼️Three States of Fruit (from 'Bud to Fruit: The Life History of a Cherry')
👨‍🎨William H. Gill (1839–1923)
📸Sheffield Museums

Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums

We’re beaming onto your television screens for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange today, sharing this charming work by Conrad Atkinson.

🖼️Goldfish
👨‍🎨Conrad Atkinson (1940–2022)
📸Sheffield Museums

Weston Park is a museum with Sheffield at its heart, one where the city’s stories are its greatest treasure. And that’s only possible thanks to the people of Sheffield, who so generously share their memories and stories with us. 🧵✨

Orville’s jacket and family photos are currently on display in Sheffield Stories: Caribbean Footsteps, and his family story was so kindly shared with us by his daughter, Carole Ann.

Orville was a trained accountant, but wasn’t able to get an accountancy job when he came to Sheffield in 1962. Instead, he did a variety of jobs - bus driver, foreman - all the while, making and adjusting clothes to earn extra money to save and help his family to buy their own home 🏡

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

A colourful painting featuring a man playfully holding a flower in his mouth

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is smells in art for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 at Watts Gallery 👃🌸

"The Sense of Smell" by
David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to)

From @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

#Art #BlueSkyArt #Flowers
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It’s all about scent and smells for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today!

So taking inspiration from this gentleman and stopping to smell the roses:
🖼️The Sense of Smell
👨‍🎨David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to)
📸Sheffield Museums

🎉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...

We’re sharing one of Claudette Johnson’s works for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange this week, to coincide with the new Jenny Savile exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, exploring the female form 🎉

🖼️Untitled
👨‍🎨Claudette Johnson (b.1959)
📸Sheffield Museums

We’re taking a dip in the Cornish ocean to celebrate the new Sea State exhibition at Wolterton Park @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange ⛵

🖼️Mevagissey, Cornwall
👨‍🎨Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
📸Sheffield Museums

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)

It’s Landscape week for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange so we’re sharing this beautiful, sunny painting of the River Don 🏞️

🖼️River Don at Wardsend, Sheffield
👨‍🎨William James Stevenson (1835–1905)
📸Sheffield Museums

A photo of dozens of people in the atrium of a brightly decorated museum, discussing in small groups around round tables

"Sheffield's collections came from around the world, some dating back 150 years ago this year. There is an active conversation about should they, shouldn’t they, return objects"

We're at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social asking: should museums return objects? 🖼️

#FofD #Sheffield

Kelham in colour.
Kelham Island @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #flowersandtowers in the week of #RHSChelsea @visitsheffield.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org

Yes! The might RDE is back in steam, see it in action Thu-Sun 😊

P.S. Please forgive the late reply 💐

It’s all about birds for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today, to celebrate the new exhibition at Panlee House Gallery 🐦 we’re keeping it coastal with this study of a gull

🖼️White-Winged Silvery Gull
👨‍🎨John James Audubon (1785–1851)
📸Sheffield Museums

The theme for the #OnlineArtExchange this week is Fabulous fashion 💃 What better way to celebrate than getting a new dress fitted!

🖼️The New Frock
👨‍🎨Frederick William Elwell (1870–1958)
📸Sheffield Museums

We’re travelling to Cumbria for #OnlineArtExchange this week, linking with Winifred Nicholson’s Cumbrian Rag Rugs exhibition at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social

🖼A Mill Stream in Eskdale, Cumbria
👨‍🎨Thomas Creswick (1811–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums

We’re celebrating Easter for #OnlineArtExchange this week! 🐰🐣 🎉 @artukdotorg.bsky.social

We’re ignoring the chocolate 😉 and sharing this beautiful painting of an egg seller 🥚🍳

🖼The Egg Seller
👩‍🎨Margaret Deborah Cookesley (1837–1927)
📸Sheffield Museums

The 50 best museum cafes in the UK The pioneering V&A tea rooms were designed to draw people into culture, and today these spaces offer more than just sandwiches. Felicity Cloake introduces some of our favourites

The Millennium Gallery café, Ambulo, has been ranked one of the top 50 museum cafés in the UK in @theguardian.com 👏☕🍰💐

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Talk: Philosophical Foundations: Origins of Sheffield's First Public Museum in Weston Park - The Victorian Society Sheffield’s Weston Park Museum is 150 years old in 2025 – A Talk by Alistair McLean, Curator of Natural Science, Sheffield Museums Trust.

Tues 8th April is our talk at Showroom 5 in Sheffield. Our last talk for spring 2025 explores the origins of Sheffield's first public museum 150 years ago. Collections of the Literary & Philosophical Society from private house to public facility in 1875 with Alistair McLean 🏦
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For today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange we’re looking at biodiversity. We’re sharing an insect study to celebrate the relaunch of Cornwall Museum! 🎉

🖼Study of Insects with Foliage
👨‍🎨Edward Donovan (1768–1837)
📸Sheffield Museums

We’re celebrating Spring with a sunlit farm scene for today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange with @dulwichgallery.bsky.social 💐🌷🌸🐑

🖼Sheep in a Landscape
👩‍🎨Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899)
📷Sheffield Museums

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