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"The gold tremisses are all Frankish and date to the late sixth and early seventh centuries (see p. 40)"

Treasures from Sutton Hoo, Gareth Williams Published by the British Museum

Do I win a museum for nerdiness?

Dramatic classical oil painting of a scholarly monk or biblical scribe writing in a large open book by candlelight. The bearded man leans over a wooden desk,

It's become a tradition that we play this #WorldBookDay game:

Grab the nearest book, turn to page 34 and reply below with the third sentence from that page.

🎨The Scribe by George Cattermole from The Cooper Gallery

A Victorian-era living room inspired by Chelsea Interior at Carlyle's House, with floral wallpaper, patterned carpets, and ornate wooden furniture. A man in a robe stands by the fireplace while a woman sits at a table with papers.

The #OnlineArtExchange this week is 'Art that explores home' for Catherine Opie: To Be Seen at National Portrait Gallery

'A Chelsea Interior' (The Carlyles at Home with Their Dog, 'Nero') by Robert Scott Tait (c.1816–1897) from National Trust, Carlyle's House

British pie week?!?! I'm in.

According to reports the pie contained: 1,000lbs of choice meats, 16 stones of flour, 8 sacks of potatoes, 100lbs of lard, 16lbs of baking powder.

In an event filled with comical mishaps the marque was blown over the night before leaving the watchman in the centre of the deflated tent shouting out for help (he escaped uninjured)

A commemorative plate featuring an illustration of a steaming pie, with text reading: “Wombwell Hospital Carnival, Collier’s Pie, Size 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, 16 inches deep, June 25th 1938.”.

We've shared this story about a giant pie before but as it's British Pie Week we felt it was worth repeating....

This huge pie made headlines across Yorkshire in 1938. The weight of it was blamed on a platform giving way just after the carnival's Beauty Queen, Florence Frost had been crowned!

We think there should be an alternative blue plaque trail of all the places @imcmillan.bsky.social has enjoyed an espresso (complete with quotes and a score of out 10)

Ancient iron spearhead with corroded metal blade and hollow socket handle

#NationalOldStuffDay or as we rather call them: priceless objects and collections.

This Bronze Age bronze spearhead (1400-1000 BC.) was found at Town Edge Quarries, Crow Edge, Penistone.

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Perfect diatraction for a few minutes!

Alexander Carse was a Scottish painter known for his scenes of Scottish life. His works include a large canvas of George IV's visit to Leith and three early paintings of football matches.

19th-century tavern interior oil painting depicting a group of British soldiers and civilians gathered around a wooden table in a rustic inn, illuminated by warm firelight.

#PuzzleMonday Tavern Scene with a Soldier by Alexander Carse

🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩

🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art

A bright orange piggy bank made out of glass

A jug shaped as a pig

Happy National Pig Day! 🐽 🐖

Here's our piggy bank, made at Woods Brothers Glassworks in Barnsley and and a pig shaped jug by an unknown maker

#NationalPigDay #pig #pigs

Oooh! May i enter my personal collection of copper/bronze/tin teapots?

Found at thrift stores, used for still life studies. I have a limited collection of rather mundane objects: I call them the MAD/MET (museum van alledaagse dingen/ museum of everyday things) (NL/EN).

Bring back hyperlocal teapots and teasets! 🫖

Large seated Egyptian-style pharaoh statue on stone plinth at “Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt” exhibition in Barnsley, UK, roped off with red velvet barriers; informational sign reads “An Exhibition at Experience Barnsley – Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt, Curated by Prof Joann Fletcher

There's always something new to see and do in Barnsley.

Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt are coming to Experience Barnsley a week today

www.experience-barnsley.com/whats-on/cle...

Roman teapot!

Yes, bring back the fancy tea pots - and the teasmade!

Today we're transporting you back to the 1960s with a digital reconstruction of Eldon Street.

There has been a cinema on the street for over 100 years, the current building opened #OnThisDay in 1956 and is now home to The Parkway Cinema

Watch the full reconstruction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=spwj...

Promotional poster for an exhibition at Experience Barnsley Museum titled "Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt," curated by Prof Joann Fletcher, running from March 7, 2026, to February 20, 2027, featuring two golden cobra graphics.

We are busy at the moment putting the finishing touches to a new exhibition opening at Experience Barnsley next weekend: Cleopatra And The Queens of Egypt, curated by Prof. Joann Fletcher.

Lots more details to follow about this year long exhibition!

www.experience-barnsley.com/news/

A surreal painting from the British Council Collection features a large, dark sun with yellow flames and an abstract, wilted sunflower

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'renewal' for Ashes to Fashion at @ulstermuseum.org

We searched @artukdotorg.bsky.social for the term 'renewal' and selected: 'Eclipse of the Sunflower' by Paul Nash (1889–1946) from the British Council Collection.

Peggy Airey and Watter Joe in party hats, there is a Happy 10th birthday sign in the middle of the two portraits

Happy 10th birthday ArtUK! 🎉

Peggy Airey and Watter Joe are in a celebratory mood, read about the portraits and the artist Abel Hold in our recent ArtUK article

artuk.org/discover/sto...

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Today is National Tile Day

We have lots of tiles in our collections, many of which we have turned into #MuseumJigsaws

🧩 www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse... 🧩

#NationalTileDay #tiles #puzzle #jigsaw #game

Children in a school playing field stroking a rabbit

Heading into the weekend by turning up the cute factor 🐰

Monk Bretton school children with a pet rabbit in 1961 #LoveYourPetDay

Call for Proposals: Animator for Digital Installation at Barnsley Museums - Curating Visibility Curating Visibility, delivered by Screen South’s Accentuate Programme, is inviting animators to submit proposals for a new temporary digital installation at Barnsley Museums. This commission forms…

@barnsleymuseums.bsky.social is inviting animators to submit proposals for a new accessible digital installation. The work will animate up to five collection objects exploring histories of disabled people’s activism, resistance and care. There’s a fee of £10,500.

Barnsley Museums Natters Welcome back to the Barnsley Museums podcast! Series two reflects on 40 years since the Miners' Strike with interviews from former miners and the Women Against Pit Closures movement. Barnsley Museums'...

Listen wherever you get your podcasts from or via these links

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Stan Richards with his trademark peaked hat

Geoffrey Hutchinson being interviewed in Maurice Dobson Museum

The Barnsley Museums Natters podcast is back!

The latest episode features archive interviews with Stan Richards, known to millions as Seth Armstrong in Emmerdale and Geoffrey Hutchinson who was the first chair at Darfield Museum, who sadly passed away last month

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"Serving up history one spoonful at a time"

Here's one of ours from Experience Barnsley which was sold by Benjamin Gaunt & Sons Jewelers who were based on May Day Green from 1863 to 1929

We're not sure if Sam Battle or This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete are on here but it is SO exciting that this years Eurovision entry has his own museum!

That has taken the old #MuseumsDoEurovision hashtag to the extreme and is the perfect excuse to start using it again.

The old horse party group, lots of people in fancy dress and two people at the back dressed as a horse.

....It's a difficult story to cram into one post! It became a tradition that it would be performed each year until the outbreak of WW2. It did make a brief comeback in the 1990s which is why we have this horses head in our collection #YearOfTheHorse