Amazing achievement! Well done to the volunteers, team and researchers involved in so much of Zooniverse's success

Five museums in England shortlisted for Museum of the Year - Museums Association Winner of Art Fund’s £120,000 prize to be announced on 25 June

News | Five museums in England shortlisted for Art Fund’s #MuseumOfTheYear 🏆

The winner will be announced on 25 June – congratulations to the shortlisted museums:

• Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
• The Box, Plymouth
• The Fitzwilliam Museum
• The National Gallery
• V&A East Storehouse

History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections.

Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:

'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

Come help us shape the future of video game heritage in Scotland! New AHRC PhD opportunity for anyone interested in video game heritage and want to work with National Museums Scotland, Abertay Uni and Uni of Glasgow, apply!

Applications due 11/05/2026

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Really great news!

For those interested in photo history, attached is a CFP for a study day on the history photomechanical images in Italy.

Proposals are due by the May 22 to cristiana.sorrentino@unifi.it & francesca.strobino@labafirenze.com

The study day will be held at the University of Urbino on October 1st.

Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer.

It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection.

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

JOB KLAXON - National Museums Scotland is looking for a Keeper of Global Arts, Cultures & Design. Amazing team & collections. If you have senior management experience and expertise in one of these areas, apply!

Salary - £76,093 – 86,275
FT 35 hpw
Deadline - 30/04/2026

careers.nms.ac.uk/job/856993

There are PhD studentships available for some lucky people:

Collecting Space Heritage (Museum Studies) - le.ac.uk/study/resear...

Humanity and space, open theme - le.ac.uk/study/resear...

#STS #histSTM 📜

Contact your local candidates ahead of the Scottish Parliament election - Museums Association Ask your candidates about their commitments to support museums

Contact your local candidates ahead of the Scottish Parliament election 📩

The election will be held on 7 May, and we’re encouraging all our members in Scotland to contact their local candidates to ask: what commitments are you making to support museums?

Find out how in our quick guide 👇

A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

I'm so sorry Alex. Can only imagine how horrible it is to lose a pet, and also to have to worry about the cost. Sending love from Scotland.

🔔JOB ALERT🔔 12 month Project Conservator, Aviation @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social. If you have experience in engineering conservation, this job could be for you.
Salary - £39,754 to £43,188
Full time - Fixed Term 12 months
Location - NMoF
Deadline - 15.3.26
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/841751

Ancient brass instrument used to interpret the heavens turns 1,000 years old National Museums Scotland said it was one of the rarest scientific instruments in its collection.

Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

(Silly to not go, when it's your home town)! If you want any local Edinburgh tips, just ask

Come join the team at @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! Great role helping us take care of the Library and Archive!

Closing date - 16/02/26
Salary - £42,765-£46,051
Hours - 35 pw

Polkarooo? Pooolkarooooooo

Annual Conference 2026 Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

Great job in a great department

A woman with long brown hair pulls a red book from a bookshelf.

Want to level up your library career this year?

We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme.

Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

The Science Museum Group is looking for a Systems and E-Resources Librarian, FT permanent post based at one of our sites in #Bradford #London #Manchester #Wroughton (nr Swindon) or #York #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

A watch for King James VI and I's favourite | National Museums Scotland In around 1615, James VI and I presented his favourite courtier, Robert Kerr, Earl of Somerset, with an elaborate pendant watch. Within a year, Kerr had sp

Special issue (OA) of British Art Studies on James VI & I, including a multi-authored section on the Ramsay-Kerr watch @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/
(see also www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...)

What if there was a way to link museum collections based on the way an object looks? Kaspar Beelen and I have a paper out now talking about 'Heritage Weaver,' a project that used multimodal AI to link and explore museum data across collections: doi.org/10.63744/txx...

This is the best kind of use of the Internet.

2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre!

theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/

Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh!
Applications
Opens - Dec 25
Closes - April 26
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

I know it often feels like yelling into the void, but at least you can yell loudly here and with occasional free text boxes if you are horrified by the proposed immigration changes.

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...