Nicola Kelly

We are looking at a close up of a carved wooden lion on top of a tankard.

It’s World Lion Day.

Any excuse to share this derpy dude again.

🦁

RECORDING: Creating sensory backpacks for families with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) by Kids in Museums on cademy.io Creating sensory backpacks for families with Special Educational Needs (SEND) Webinar recording Do you want to create sensory backpacks for families with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities…

Want to learn how a simple backpack filled with affordable objects can transform museum visits for families with additional needs?

A recording of our webinar with the brilliant Sam Bowen of SEND in Museums, unpacking how to create bespoke sensory backpacks for your museum, is now available 👉

How is your museum supporting the wellbeing of your young visitors?

Kids in Museums believes that museums can play a valuable role in supporting young people’s mental health. Explore our free resource, packed with real world examples of programmes and practice ➡️ kidsinmuseums.org.uk/resources/yo...

Ragwort flowers are so pretty, and I saw many #pollinatorpals visiting including Gatekeeper, Chalkhill Blue, Mason Bee and hoverflies. However, peril awaits some......one unfortunate Gatekeeper had been caught by a Crab Spider hiding amongst the petals.
#wildflowerhour

A Hoverfly with a tapered abdomen on a yellow flower against a blurred green background.

Male Eristalis pertinax hoverfly on Ragwort. #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

A cluster of Harebells nodding in the breeze yesterday on the embankment of the old railway from Caernarfon to Bryncir, now Lôn Eifion, overlooking Cors Gyfelog NNR @natreswales.bsky.social, the largest quaking bog in Cymru. #WildFlowerHour

A huge hit with a wide variety of insect visitors is the Common Fleabane. Its beautiful golden flowers are reminiscent of tiny suns and the butterflies can’t seem to get enough of them! I was only able to snap a Painted Lady though.

There’s a huge patch of Common Fleabane in my local park which is looking glorious! I spent a bit of time staking it out but as it was warm everything was a bit too speedy! I did manage to catch up on this beautiful Painted Lady though 😍 #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

A bee mimic fly on purple thistle

A drone-fly on creeping thistle, for #WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #Pollinators #BugSky #UKWildflowers

For #WildflowerHour here are some #PollinatorPals on a Ragwort plant in my garden 💛Spotted the scorpion fly a few weeks back and the hoverfly was a hour or so ago 😀

For #PollinatorPals for #wildflowerhour here are Honeybee and Marmalade Hoverfly utilising Rosebay Willowherb

The stunning spiky Sea Holly just one of the many fascinating wild plants that can be found growing near the coast. The challenge this week is #ByTheSea, why not see what you can find, share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm.

What can you find blooming along the coast? That’s the challenge this week for #WildflowerHour! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #ByTheSea! Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸🌊

Beautiful botanical painting by Keble Martin illustrating some members of the Deadnettle Family. Can you find a member of this lovely family for #WildflowerHour this week? If you can, share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #DeadNettleFamily

The image for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge post is one from W. Keble Martin’s classic wildflower guide, The Concise British Flora in Colour. Isn’t it a beauty? There’s some very lovely members of the Lamiaceae or #DeadNettlefamily can you find one for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm?

I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.

Today's the day ! It's launch day for the #BigButterflyCount . . .

Get out between now and 10th August for 15 minutes and count the butterflies you see & help the great citizen science of @savebutterflies.bsky.social ! Get involved at bigbutterflycount.org

‘Ni ellir gadael dyfodol natur i siawns’ 🌿

Mae Comisiynydd Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol yn galw ar Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government i gamu ymlaen a chloi targedau cryf ar gyfer adfer natur yn y Bil Amgylchedd newydd — cyn iddi fod yn rhy hwyr.

'Don’t leave nature’s future to chance' 🌿
The Future Generations Commissioner is calling on Welsh Gvt to step up and lock in strong targets for nature recovery in the new Environment Bill before it’s too late.

👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eCs8zzPa

Two pink and white bindweed flowers surrounded by grass.

Three white bindweed flowers surrounded by grass and leaves.

A pink and white sea bindweed flower in the sandunes surrounded by tall grass.

Two pink and white bindweed flowers surrounded by grass.

Today at Llangennith #Gower beautiful convolvulus 😍 Pics 1, 2, & 4 Convolvulus arvensis, Field Bindweed. Pic 3 Calystegia soldanella, Sea Bindweed #WildflowerHour

⭐ Our Glamorgan-Gwent field team captured these stunning images during an overnight watching brief in Monmouthshire last month. The work was undertaken throughout the night to minimise traffic impact. 🚗 🚧

A partially translucent flint arrowhead held between the thumb and forefinger of an archaeologist

Asha has spotted a Late Neolithic flint projectile point in the lower fill of the Iron Age pit she's working on with Alison at #Durotriges25

It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)

I'm very excited to be playing a small part in this incredible new 5 year project, representing the @rcahmwales.bsky.social on the Advisory Board 🥳. Huge congratulations to all the project team for winning funding to explore chariots in ancient Wales 🐎

BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪

Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍

Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

#PlantScience #SciNews

Some good news for ash trees 🌳🌿 congratulations @carey-metheringham.bsky.social on all your amazing work for this study, and to our other co-authors, especially Richard Nichols and Richard Buggs at QMUL and Kew! I am very happy to have been able to play a small part ☺️

Flowering grasshead with three Meadow Plant Bugs.

Flowering grasshead with a Meadow Plant Bug sitting on top.

Beautiful flowering grasses and Meadow Plant Bugs, taken in our back garden in Swansea this evening 😀 #WildflowerHour #GrassChallenge #NoMowMay #LetItBloomJune

New social justice category for Family Friendly Museum Award - Museums Association Eighteen organisations in the running for the annual award, which will be announced in October

News | New social justice category for #FamilyFriendlyMuseum Award – 18 organisations in the running for the annual award, which will be announced in October

@kidsinmuseums.bsky.social

Today's event was just brilliant! Thank you so much for organising

So happy that the #DylanThomasCentre has been shortlisted for this years
@kidsinmuseums.bsky.social Family Freindly Museum Award!😀 And delighted to hear that another Swansea museum, the #NationalWaterfrontMuseum, has been shortlisted too! 🥳

Discover the UK’s best museums for families this summer - Kids in Museums 18 museums are in the running to be named the UK’s Best Family Friendly Museum.

🎉 The wait is over! Meet the Family Friendly Museum Award 2025 shortlist🏆

From free, hands on activities to co-designed inclusive resources, these museums are going above and beyond to ensure a great experience for their family visitors.

Explore the shortlist: kidsinmuseums.org.uk/2025/06/disc...

Swansea is the new home of Welsh National Theatre.
Read more: welshnationaltheatre.com/swansea-launch

A family explores a museum display together, smiling and engaged, alongside event details: “Creating family friendly museums – Afternoon Cuppa Session (Welsh Museums), Monday 7 July, 2–3pm. Free webinar. Kids in Museums.”

🏛️ Free webinar for museum staff in Wales!

Making your museum more welcoming and accessible to children, families and young people doesn't need to be expensive or daunting.

Book a place on our free webinar to explore easy low and no cost changes👉 kids-in-museums.cademy.io/creating-fam...

Inclusive AMA places - Museums Association Start your Associateship of the Museums Association journey for free

Start your AMA for free with an inclusive place 💸

This #SocialMobilityDay, don't forget that you might be eligible to apply for a free year of our Associateship of the Museums Association award – a flexible way to become a well-rounded museum professional.

Find out more and apply by 30 June 👇