Jamie Taylor

Bright yellow drawers with an inviting "open" label. When pulled open they reveal row upon row of glass eyes sitting on soft pink foam. Each eye has its own unique number to identify it.

A close up view of a single glass eye with rows of others around the edge of the frame. The eye has a hand-painted dark blue-grey iris and scleral veins made from red thread. It sits on a bed of pink foam.

In our last exhibition we asked visitors to pick from 90 early 20th century glass eyes to find which was the best match for their own eyes.

After almost 800 responses, around 6% of people went with this blue eye, the most universal eye of our visitor base

Seems fitting that they played the Bargain Hunt theme tune at the end of the Huddersfield Town match, given that our two centre backs have the pace and passing range of a French dresser.

Access in Museums Conference Join us in Leeds for the first national Access in Museums Conference.

Join us in Leeds for the first national Access in Museums Conference.

In partnership with @gem-heritage.bsky.social and YAMN (Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network).

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Can our digital avatars make our real selves healthier?

A little thing I wrote to go with our last exhibition

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Copy of London Town: London County Council Staff Gazette, March 1961. Cover photo of a sculpture of a mother and child with a real mother and child. The child's hand reaches out to the sculpture.

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social On display at Leeds Art Gallery @leedsmuseums.bsky.social. The photo shows The Lesson by Franta Belsky, 1957-61, at the Avebury estate in Bethnal Green.

Great news Greg! York was also the first time I wrote a comedy sketch and where I also learned to dodge water fowl. One was in your class at IPUP, the other on the picnic bench outside the student union. Which way round though, I don’t remember!

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

I hear you’re in a relegation battle.

I’ve been thinking about this myself this year. My uncle still sends me a present and I’m 43! With my nephew, I think I’m going to stop when he gets to 21.

I can’t lie. I saw the score in the pub and was expecting Saints to walk away with a 6-5 win.

My partner is always asking me to be more whimsical. I asked her what she thought the geopolitical effect of Santa Claus would be if he was really real. She told me to stop being whimsical.

Thanks for the spoiler mate 🙄

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!

Breaking: doctors starting to suspect that women's bodies work differently than men's REGINA, SK - In a groundbreaking speech, Dr. Jeremy Edgar of Fairmont Grover Health Research Institute, delivered new findings that the female body may have innate biological differences than male bod...

Breaking: doctors starting to suspect that women's bodies work differently than men's

A pic of the museum door with pingu peeping out of a warm cosy looking porch

Today at the museum

The Breathing Room a space to share about loss 1030 - 1230
Cosy Thursdays 2 - 5
Copwatch intervention training 530 - 8

All welcome ❤️

Hummus on a shovel.

A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace.

We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet.

(Better with sound).

Nothing like the traditional Marsden Christmas lights.

A postcard. A black and white photo shows a disembodied arm sticking through a hole in a wood panelled wall. A length of rubber tube draws blood from the arm into a glass bottle. A red stamp shows a row of identical arms all giving blood into red bottles. The stamp reads "Les Donneurs de Sang" (French for "Blood Donors")

In wartime Fez, Morocco, French military physician Jean Julliard invented a 'blood donation chamber'. You just had to stick your arm through a hole in the wall and all the messy business with needles happened out of sight.

They became popular across France in the 50s, but not really anywhere else.

Visiting @ourmoh.bsky.social today was like hanging out with friends. I had such a good time! Thank you to Joe, Lady, Gideon and everyone who made me feel so welcome.

Could be worse.

Ok, so here goes. Time to open Spotify Unwrapped..

Science communicators when they have to correct another piece of misinformation yet again

Ha - I literally got one at the weekend to put up an introduction panel!

Massive away win for the little fella.

We did a Christmas thing!

Who is Mummy Meegz?

Thackray is front page news!

Brilliant work from our top archivist Rob.

Optimist: the cup is ½ full

Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty

Museum worker: either way it’s not coming into the gallery. You can drink that outside, and we don’t care that it was our cafe that sold it you in a takeaway cup.

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