Standing outdoors, a person draws on an easel
Deadline approaching | We're looking for a global majority evaluator for our Anti-racist Museums Programme and a facilitator for two round-table workshops on wellbeing and ableism in the museum sector 👤
Programme evaluator: https://ow.ly/Ba4E50XTnil
Workshop facilitator: https://ow.ly/QsMo50XTnim
We’re partnering with Thackray Museum of Medicine to shine a spotlight on organ donation and transplants on Thursday 25 September for #OrganDonationWeek!
Every year, over 300 people receive life-changing transplants at Leeds Hospitals.
Find out more and book here: www.facebook.com/events/66381...
We @thackraymuseum.bsky.social are working with the RHS too and look forward to revealing some exhibition news soon 👀🌷
This time last week I was incredibly privileged to be on a pre-opening tour at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, with an opportunity to find out more about their community commitments and to celebrate work on our nearest neighbour’s RHS & NHS Wellbeing Garden @leedsth.nhs.uk.
🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤
Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Delighted that @adamrutherford.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social's Prof Gregory Radick will be joining us @thackraymuseum.bsky.social on Thursday evening for our newest Insights Late on the legacy of eugenics. Just a few tickets left now … 🎟️
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
Today we @thackraymuseum.bsky.social posted a statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling on gender. We stand with our trans family and communities in allyship. 🏳️⚧️
thackraymuseum.co.uk/statement-fr...
Good morning #Salford you are look resplendent! Here @thelowry.com for @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities in Arts and Culture day. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues but also learning about, and being inspired by, the power of community.
Brilliant to welcome @mayorofwy.bsky.social Tracy Brabin back to @thackraymuseum.bsky.social for the latest Mayor’s Question Time #WYMQT – looking forward to hearing more about our community’s concerns and what’s important for them with @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
National Portfolio museums are becoming more diverse, ACE report finds - Museums Association @museumsassociation.org www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
I’ve been on hold to HMRC for so long that I’ve started to transcribe the truly awful hold music that I will undoubtedly now have in my head for days 😒
Kicking off another jam-packed @thackraymuseum.bsky.social late with Open Mic spoken word as part of “My Bloody Valentine”
An exhibition poster showing an organic, branching, dark crimson sculpture entangled in web of red threads. The title BLOOD is written in big, bold all capitals, with the words "Ties and Tensions" beneath.
A museum display case seen through an illuminated web of red branches. It is framed by a network of red threads. The case contains Victorian transfusion apparatus and modern blood bags.
A museum display case with a flame coloured sculpture of twisted branches reaching from the ground to engulf it. The case contains medicine bottles, documents and badges. An interpretation panel reads: "Infection".
A series of historic blood donation posters on a gallery wall. One shows the silhouette of a soldier contained within a glass blood collection bottle. A real version of the bottle is spotlit in a case beneath the poster.
New exhibition opens today.
It's about Blood. 🩸
Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Our partners at @universityofleeds.bsky.social: @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Art by Gemma Wood. Design by Émilie Chen.
This is beyond insane!!! #trump made himself chair of the Kennedy Center! WTF?! On what planet is the supposed free world governed by a total autocrat? This is Stalin-esque! You’d think the arts would be a place of sanctuary but apparently not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Just over 24 hours left to apply … 👨🏻💻
Culture engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth 8bn via @museumsassociation.org www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
This is an exciting opportunity to:
👉🏻 lead & develop a committed, ambitious & creative team
👉🏻 enable us to realise new audience development ambitions
👉🏻 embed + implement positioning, pricing and segmentation strategy
👉🏻 help a brilliant charity reach a greater diversity of people and communities
The Thackray team of staff stood on the staircase in its Grade II listed entrance with beautiful Burmantofts tiles.
📣 MarComms + VE Leadership Job Klaxon 🚨
HEAD OF MARKETING & AUDIENCES @thackraymuseum.bsky.social
Looking for a new challenge in 2025? I need a brilliant person to join our team to lead our #marketing #communications and #visitorexperience teams for 10 months.
Culture is in an emergency right now and today I’ve seen yet another well established arts org fall - Bristol Old Vic’s theatre school has run undergrad courses for 80 years (!!) but no more: oldvic.ac.uk/news/an-impo... @artsemergency.bsky.social 🚨
Just maybe, a more fitting legacy for Her Majesty would be using that £46m to sustain an existing network of regional civic museums throughout the land. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...
With ever grateful thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @heritagefunduk.bsky.social and TMRT whose support helps us share these brilliant projects and enables the museum to bring its real-life stories of medicine, wellbeing and care to an ever greater number of people 🙏🏻
Poignant, heartwarming and full of traditional Thackray kindness and care, I hope you can find time to fit us in on a festive visit to Leeds. The exhibition remains open until 5 January 2025.
PLUS every weekend day until 22 December Wrongsemble perform pop-up performances across our galleries bringing NHS staff yuletide stories further to life.
We have joined forces with brilliant paper artist and illustrator Andy Singleton to bring our take on the traditional festive story which features incredible staff from
@leedshospitals.bsky.social who work over the festive period, sharing joy with those who cannot spend Christmas at home.
Over the moon that @thackraymuseum.bsky.social made the front page of @yorkshirepost.bsky.social with our festive exhibition, 'The Night Before NHS Christmas', which opens tomorrow (30 Nov).
Delighted to have been invited to briefly speak at tonight’s Community Engagement Tour Finale for Phoenix Dance. Three brilliant excerpts performed by this ever forward-thinking company, choreographed and directed by Marcus Jarrell Willis & Iolanda Portogallo 👏🏻 loved it! 🙌🏻 Thanks for having me!
Must… resist… posting… pictures… of… my… dog… whilst… out… on… walks…. Oh I can’t help it he’s just too handsome and we live in #godsowncountry I promise not to fill this feed with dog spam and will try remain entirely professional! (I don’t promise at all 🤞🏻)
The fireplace in the Cinnamon Drawing Room and State Dining Room were just 😍😍😍
Starting the seasonal set of celebrations at Harewood House in the most magical way in Mischief at the Mansion. Utterly brilliant 🤩 🎄 Studio McGuire and the Harewood team have totally outdone themselves 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻