Rosie Fuller

We are looking at several life size cut outs of cartoon figures depicting a Tudor actor, a medieval woman, a modern Governor, a Tudor merchant, a plague doctor and a Victorian man.

We have been busy today as we’ve had some helpers arrive.

This is William and friends who are here to welcome young visitors to the Hall.

We think they’re rather marvellous!

A picture of a mosaic showing a dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents.

For today's #MosaicMonday a hilarious #Roman mosaic depicting a boisterous #dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents.

Life without #dogs is possible but pointless! 😊

On display at the Archaeological Museum Irbid/Jordan.

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A chart that explains what to do If You Find A Baby Songbird Out Of The Nest. Is it hurt or did a cat get it? (Cat bites & scratches cause deadly infections.) or, Has a person kept it for over a day, given it food or water, or gotten it wet? If yes, Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator or wildlife care center near you. An online search can help. If no, what does it look like? Eyes not yet open. You have a hatchling. It's very young. Eyes open; feathers few & may be in tube-like sheaths. You have a nestling. Feathered; awkwardly hops or flutters; tail & wings short. You have a fledgling. Many sharp teeth; large claw on second toe. You have a velociraptor. If a hatchling or nestling, can you see the nest? If yes, Return it to its nest. The parents won’t care if they can smell you. If no, Make a nest from a basket & dried grass. Wire it to a tree. (Note: A few species, like Juncos, need a nest on the ground.) If a fledgling, is it in immediate danger? If yes, carefully move it to a safer spot nearby. If no, DO NOT INTERVENE! Though the bird looks awkward, it’s in a natural stage & the parents are still feeding it. If a velociraptor, has it seen you? If yes, back away slowly. Do not show fear. If no, run. Watch for others that may attack from the sides. FYI: Some babies (eg. swifts, most woodpeckers) only sit on the ground if in trouble. When in doubt, keep watch & contact a wildlife rehabilitator if needed!

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

“Yippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.

One map connected the Philippines, Watford Junction and Spain. Another included Hounslow, space and God. One map showed London, Kiev and Warsaw, the child who made it explaining that you have to fly to Warsaw from London instead of straight home to Kiev because there’s a war. She was four.

We had gleeful, silly maps - an escape map for zoo animals, a map to find animal bums. Lots of the maps focussed on the everyday, friends and family’s houses, parks, school, ice cream, chicken and chips. One child pinpointed all of the most important sites in Windsor - a red dot for every postbox.

Maps made with colourful tape and stickers on white paper

I made about a million maps with families over the holidays at London Transport Museum. When you ask people to map the places that are important to them, you get a real variety of responses. Big Ben was popular but Morrisons appeared more often. One family made a map of Iceland (the supermarket)

A #Roman arnelian cameo, made some 2000 years ago, carved with the image of a fish (probably a red mullet, one of the most prized delicacies in #Rome) - was the original owner a fisherman, or did they just like eating them? (📷 MFA Boston) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky

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A pair of bronze foot guards with anatomically detailed toes, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes. Laid side by side on a beige display surface. toe-shaped bronze foot armor, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes.

A pair of bronze foot-guards, found in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. Dating 520-480 BC.
Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose.

On display at British Museum.

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Artisan cheesemaker, Sharpham Dairy, the UK's first B Corp cheese dairy, has just launched its crowdfunding campaign, 'Curd is the Word' www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sharpham-cheese
Cheese tours and tastings to the chance to bathe in milk on offer to supporters!
#cheesenews

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Egyptian Geese can appear out of place high in trees but often use them for nesting due to the relative safety they offer @rspb.bsky.social From Walthamstow Wetlands in East London this morning @britishnatureguide.bsky.social #Birds #Wildlife #BirdsSeenIn2025

A visitor pass with a photo of one quarter of my face, at a weird angle, and part of someone else’s arm. The text on the pass reads “Rosie fuller foundling”

I’ve been doing some early years outreach with the Foundling Museum. I’m happy with how my visitor pass came out at this afternoon’s nursery, but pretty sure I’ve aged out of being a foundling.

A small ornate window with a view of one of the towers of tower bridge

Good view for my lunch break today

Don't tell anyone, but this is the first time we've posted about Bluesky's alt text reminder this year!

Find it in Settings > Accessibility and tick "Require alt text before posting."

Pair of scissors with unusually long blades, next to a banana, which is as long as the blades. The banana is plastic but full scale and pretty convincingly banana-ish

Look how big these scissors that I found in a cupboard at the British Museum the other day are. Banana for scale. Not the weirdest thing in the BM, sure, but why are they so long?

Not fluffy but maybe a bit fibrous. Like fibre glass.

A life size plastic edible crab hanging jammed between the branches of a Christmas tree

The whole Christmas tree, in an unprepossessing corner of a modern office. The tree is mostly decorated with photos of Victorian bridge employees and engineers, plus the plastic crab in all its crabby glory

Outrage during the annual freelancer meeting when it is revealed that the crab on the Tower Bridge office Christmas tree is called Claud and not Santa Claws

Give it a fucking rest mate, I’m on nights.

The living and dying gallery at the British Museum, with no people in it, just large display cases full of objects; and at the centre of the room, a large stone head and torso (a Moai) on a tall white plinth.

I had a bit of the British Museum to myself this evening. All the objects seemed to stay in their places - at least, while I was looking

A white bowl decorated with a drawing of a person eating crisps from a large bag

Crispy 2023 Alara Sipahioglu Graduated 2023 MA Material Futures 'Crispy' salvages hard-to-recycle plastic crisp packaging. transforming It into serving bowls that can once again be used to hold crisps. Using a specialised separation process, each packet is delaminated into four distinct materials: two PP films, a metallic PET film, and ink. With this transformation, the packets are no longer environmental hazards and instead demonstrate the untapped potential of circular lifecycles.

Here is a bowl for eating crisps out of, with a picture of someone eating crisps on it, made from a bag of crisps

Large sheets of white paper, printed all over with red and gold motifs

A messy paint pallet daubed with paint and scattered with brushes

Architecture Club @soanemuseum.bsky.social made wallpaper and painted tiles yesterday. Since then I have had a swim and a shower and I have been out in the pouring rain and yet somehow I’m still covered in paint

Talking to year 3 about architecture at Sir John Soane’s museum today, a child couldn’t remember the word ”house” so settled on “bedroom building”

We found a frankly eerie silent library welcome film on some old reel-to-reel tapes, which we gave to the students to remix into a horror trailer as a Halloween competition last year. It was a lot of fun.

The winning entry was very sweet* www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1_...

*Er, we mean terrifying!

A table with craft materials. Behind it, a wall of museum display cases, most prominent is a skeleton of a large, long marine mammal - the dugong

My workshop at the Grant Museum of Zoology at the weekend was overseen by a dugong

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